Showing posts with label casseroles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label casseroles. Show all posts

Friday, February 14, 2014

Potato Dumpling Pie


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Wanting for comfort food? Maybe, you're yearning for some Potato Dumpling Pie!
This Potato Dumpling Pie recipe can be cooked in a pie dish, iron skillet, or a casserole dish. Slices of potato and onion seasoned up with garlic and black pepper enveloped in a thick, creamy texture,all along with spoonfuls of rolled buttermilk dumplings simply beckon you to the supper table.
Very few ingredients and a simple technique make this recipe a winner. 

Let's get started and gather up some ingredients!

Total Cook Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (approximately)
Bake Time: 1 hour
Preheat Oven: 425 degrees

Ingredients:
4-5 medium size potatoes
1 medium onion
2 cloves garlic
2 cup Self-rising flour(Martha White or White Lily)
3 tablespoons shortening(I prefer butter flavored Crisco)
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon salt for dumpling plus approximately 1 tablespoons to flavor potatoes
black pepper season to taste
water-enough to boil potatoes in

Directions:
1. Slice potatoes into disc and onion into rings
2. Place potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper in a medium pot. Fill pot approximately 3/4 full with water.

3. Bring to boil. Turn temperature down to a rolling boil for about 15 minutes.
4. Prepare dumplings by combining flour and salt in mixing bowl. 
5. Cut-in shortening.
6. Add buttermilk a little at a time while stirring with a fork. When dough will follow fork around the bowl there's enough milk.
7. Turn out on board, kneading just a little. Roll out and cut into squares.



6. Add dumplings to potatoes. Be very careful not to get burned by bubbling. Turn down the temperature on the potatoes if there's a danger of getting burned. The mixture will get quite thick and extremely hot.
7. Turn temperature down to a simmer after adding all your dumplings. Simmer approximately 5 minutes or until thickened.

These potatoes & dumplings could be served as is and be quite good but to achieve the brown crust you'll want to pour it in your dish to bake.

8. Pour in dish.
9. Bake at 425 degrees for 1 hour or until top is browned over.



Do enjoy!




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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Ravioli Bake


Smack dab in the middle of the work week and after school commitments are so often the trap that we so easily will fall into. Compromising, ourselves we run through the drive-thru, pick the pizza, or maybe we open the beloved can of spagehettio's. 
Yes..everyone is fed
but
 making this the norm will make a family extremely unsatisfied.
I'd like to share my middle of the week Go-To.
Ravioli Bake!
You can also do yourself a Quick Ravioli right on top of the stove.
Quick Ravioli
Ingredients: 
2 bags of frozen ravioli~They are usually found in your freezer section of the grocery store 
                                     near the frozen breads. As a norm, they come beef or cheese filled.
                                     My family loves the cheese filled. I use a pound of sausage in 
                                     my cheesy raviolis but if I'm using the beef raviolis I omit the sausage.
1 pound sausage~Jimmy Dean makes a pretty good Italian flavor that goes great.
2 cans of spaghetti sauce~24 ounce
bag of grated cheese or block of cheese, grated~About any cheese work just fine.
Seasoning~use what you have on hand~I give it a bit of black pepper, a little more garlic powder,
                                     a little basil, a dash of parsley.
Directions:
1. Cook frozen ravioli according to directions on package and drain.
2. Brown Sausage.
3. In a large pot, put your spaghetti sauce in pot bring to a simmer while adding your browned
                                      sausage, seasonings. 
4. Add raviolis to sauce.
5. Stir-in 1/3 of your cheese.
6. Top with remaining cheese immediately before serving.

Ravioli Bake
Ingredients:
Ravioli~cooked in sauce or leftover quick ravioli.
1 can diced tomatoes
small can of sliced mushroom
small onion diced
green pepper
pepperoni
Mozzarella cheese

Directions:
1. In a 9 X 13 casserole dish, place ravioli and can of tomatoes.
2. Saute onion, green pepper, and mushrooms.
3. Stir sauteed vegetables,pepperoni, and 1/3 cheese evenly through ravioli.
4. Bake at 350 degrees covered with tin foil for about 20 minutes.
       Uncover for 5-10 minutes giving it that nice browned look.
5. Cover with cheese.

Oh Yum...it's a crowd pleaser.