Beef Tips

There is a restaurant here in Jackson that always had the best beef tips and rice. As we can't make their lunch any more we looked for a recipe we could do here at home. This one was pretty good but I felt it had to much Worcestershire tast. I think I'll cut back on it next time.

2 lbs cubed stew meat

1 onion chopped

1 pkg brown gravy mix

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce

2 cups water

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 teaspoon garlic (we used 1 clove)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 cup water.

In a large skillet heat oil and saute onion until they are translucent.

Add meat and cook on high until meat is browned on all sides.

Add 2 cups water,soy sauce, Worcestershire, garlic,salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce heat.

Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours

Combine gravy mix with 1 cup water mix thoroughly and stir into meat and bring to a boil, stirring frequently until it thickens.

Serve over rice.

Mona's Pot Roast

Can you believe it we had snow flurries here yesterday, now it is up near 70 got to love the South.

This is my mother in laws pot roast and it is very yummy.

2 Tablespoon vegetable oil

3 1/2 to 4 lb round or Chuck roast

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 pkg dry onion soup

6 medium potatoes quartered

6 carrots cut in 2 inch pieces

2 Tablespoons all purpose flour

several cloves of garlic

Make several slits in meat and place clove of garlic in

Heat oil and brown roast well on all sides

Stir in mushroom soup, onion mix and 1 cup of water, reduce and heat and cover and simmer for 2 hours. Turn occasionally.

Add vegetables cover and cook 49 minutes or until roast and veg. are fork tender.

Remove roast and veg.

In cup stir together flour and 1/4 cup water till smooth and gradually stir into pot, cook till boils and thickens stiring constantly. Serve with roast.

total cook time 3 hours.

Italian Crescent Casserole

This has been a bad week, Last Sat. our little town had a major water leak and the water went out early in the morning. Now we had just gone to the grocery store Friday and had our weekend and weeks dinners planed out. That was blown to heck and back. Water didn't come on till around 6:30. My wife was worried about getting the laundry done. Needles to say we had to boil our water so for the next few day (till Thursday afternoon) so we had a lot of sandwiches this past week. This is one of our casseroles that turned out pretty good.

1 lb ground beef

(we had some peperoni and thought it would co good so we added you can leave out)

1 small onion

1/4 cup celery

1/4 cup bell pepper

1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes

2 cloves garlic

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasonings

1 cup spaghetti sauce

1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded

1/2 cup sour cream

1 can crescent rolls (8 oz)

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese rated

2 tablespoon butter

Heat oven to 375

brown beef onion, celery, bell pepper,garlic, drain

add spaghetti sauce

In separate bowl combine mozzarella cheese and sour cream

Place meat in 9x13 greased baking dish.

(we had some left over peperoni and added a layer)

spoon cheese mixture over top

Unroll crescent roll dough over top

Mix Parmesan cheese and butter together and spread over top of dough

Bake 18 to 25 minutes until golden brown.

Lime baked fish

This was a Zaar recipe and turned out pretty good. A little lighter fare from all the heavy winter comfort foods we have been having. Maybe because it was warm today and we have had the door and windows open and the Bradford pear across the street has bloomed overnight.

1 lb fish fillet (we used flounder)

3 Tablespoons butter

2 Tablespoons lime juice

salt and pepper to taste

1/2 teaspoon dried tarragon

1/2 teaspoon chives

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1 lime wedged

Place butter in baking pan melt in oven and coat pan

Place fish in pan and drizzle lime juice over fish

Combine remaining ingredients and sprinkle over fish

Cover with foil and bake at 359 for 10 to 15 minutes

Garnish with lime wedge.

Sweet potatoes and Ground beef casserole

Snow is all gone but I got some good pictures of the birds at our feeders. Here is a different casserole that is a tad sweet. We really like stuff more spicy but this was still good. Again we found it on Zaar wanting to use up two sweet potatoes we had.

1lb ground beef

one onion chopped

1 green bell pepper chopped

2 large sweet potatoes

1/4 cup brown sugar (we used dark as that is what we had)

1 cup pineapple juice

2 tablespoons soy sauce

2 tablespoons white vinegar

2 tablespoons flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoons pepper

Preheat oven to 350

Mix ground beef,onion,bell pepper,salt and pepper.

Press in a thin layer in greased (Pam)baking dish. (We used a 9x11)

Peel potatoes and slice thin (the gadget works great for this just don't slice your fingers off.)

Now layer over meat mixture.

Mix pineapple juice,vinegar,soy sauce together now add brown sugar and flour and pour over potatoes and ground beef.

Cover and bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Check that potatoes are done before taking out we had to cook a tad longer.