Roasted Chicken and Bow Tie Salad

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/roasted-chicken-bow-tie-pasta-salad
Roasted Chicken and Bow Tie Salad

Really good pasta with a lot of flavors. I have made it with other pasta shapes.

Creamy Tomato Basil Soup

http://grandmasrolls.blogspot.com/2010/10/creamy-tomato-basil-soup.html (thanks Lib!)

Changes--

I used fresh roma tomatoes, probably 10-15 of them. It was a big bag, a few pounds. Also, I cut the cream in half and used only one cup, which was plenty. And I added salt--1/2 to 1 tsp and dried basil at the end. Finally, I used my hand blender to blend it all up (leaving it semi-chunky).

This was tasty soup. It goes great with a roll or breadstick (we had crescent rolls). Next time I will add basil in the beginning so the flavor is distributed better.

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this was too sweet. Too creamy..it made me feel not so great. Alas. The leftovers weren't really eaten.

Onion Pandade

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/09/onion-pandade-is-this-the-ultimate-comfort-food-5-ingredients/

This is onion and bread pudding. It was very good, if you are a bread pudding kind of person. I think it might have been too wet though. DH is not a bread pudding kind of person, but he still rated it a 3, which must mean the flavor was excellent! He doesn't like turkey stuffing either. Poor DH.

I used fresh parmesan cheese.

Stuffed Green Peppers

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1626,130178-251195,00.html

STUFFED GREEN PEPPERS

1 lb. ground beef

1 lb. ground pork sausage or ground pork

4 eggs

1 cup Italian style bread crumbs

1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

2 cloves fresh garlic

salt

pepper

Italian seasoning

1/2 cup cooked rice

4 large green peppers, sliced in half
2 8 oz cans tomato sauce

Grease bottom of pan with olive oil. Mix meat, eggs, bread crumbs, cheese, garlic, and all seasonings in large bowl (DON'T ADD TOMATO SAUCE. IT GOES ON AS A TOPPING). Add rice and mix together. Slice green peppers so that you have 8 halves. (You can also slice off the top of the pepper and use the whole pepper instead). Stuff peppers with meat mixture. Place in pan and pour both cans of tomato sauce over top and along bottom of pan. Cook @ 350 F for about 1 hour. Serve with rice or mashed potatoes. Serves 4 people, 2 halves each.

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David and I loved this recipe. We found that there was no need for a side of rice. It is satisfying as is, and there is rice in the filling. It was so tasty. I made a point of not buying diet lean ground beef for this recipe, just "lean" (whatever that is..) so there would be more flavor. The flavor of the filling was fantastic. I used bulk pork sausage instead of ground pork as the original recipe calls for. The peppers I bought were massive and thick, so even after an hour there was still some crunch. So if you don't like that, be sure to buy peppers that are not as big.

Calories: 780 per serving / 4 servings (using sausage and 91/9 beef)