Ok. Here are the other requested Recipes
I know, it seems the MHN has gone a bit "Martha Stewart" without the screaming, oh wait, that was on a previous blog. Just joking... Here are Paco's Tacos and Czech Casserole. Enjoy!
Czech* Casserole
Ingredients:
1½ Ground Beef (Sirloin or Round, no Chuck.)
1 packet Lipton Onion soup mix
Tator Tots
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup or Cream of Chicken soup
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Shredded
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400*.
Spray non-stick cooking spray in 9x13 ovenproof dish. Cover the bottom of dish with uncooked ground beef. Sprinkle Lipton onion soup mix* on the meat. Layer with tator tots, then mushroom soup on the tator tots. Bake until meat is cooked and tator tots are browned on the edges. Sprinkle cheese on top and bake till gold and bubbly.
Variation:
If you want to make this a one dish full meal, you can add frozen green peas on top of the meat, before you add the tator tots.
*We actually don’t know the proper name of this dish. We call it Czech Casserole because we got it from a Czech cookbook. ☺
Enjoy!
Paco’s Tacos
Ingredients:
1lb. Ground Beef*
Salt and Pepper to taste
¼ tsp Garlic Powder**
¼ tsp Onion Powder**
¼ tsp Essence of Emeril (opt)
Oil for frying
Flour or Corn tortillas
Lettuce
Sour Cream (I use no fat)
Mexican or Colby Jack Shredded Cheese
Salsa***
A-1 Steak Sauce****
Napkins – You’re gonna need them! ☺
Directions:
Brown ground beef in a skillet. Set aside on low heat to keep warm. Chop lettuce, set aside.
Heat oil in a shallow skillet on high or just below high, to lightly fry tortillas one at a time.
For the flour tortillas, only fry for several seconds on each side. When flour tortilla puffs up, remove from oil to drain on paper towels.
For corn tortillas you can do one of two things,
1. Very lightly fry them in the oil, just enough to make them soft for folding, then let drain on paper towels;
2. Heat them one at a time in a dry skillet until soft and slightly brown in spots, no more than a few seconds on each side (10-15 sec.). Remove from heat and set aside.
Assembly: (in order from bottom to top)
Top your tortilla with beef, A-1, cheese, salsa, sour cream, lettuce. Fold over or wrap, if you can, and enjoy.
*We use ground sirloin. I would not recommend ground chuck.
** These are approximate “guesstimates”. I shake until it looks right.
*** We use medium heat chunky salsa. Pace is a good brand, so is the HEB brand.
**** This is optional, but give it a try, very tasty!!
Enjoy!
Czech* Casserole
Ingredients:
1½ Ground Beef (Sirloin or Round, no Chuck.)
1 packet Lipton Onion soup mix
Tator Tots
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup or Cream of Chicken soup
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Shredded
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400*.
Spray non-stick cooking spray in 9x13 ovenproof dish. Cover the bottom of dish with uncooked ground beef. Sprinkle Lipton onion soup mix* on the meat. Layer with tator tots, then mushroom soup on the tator tots. Bake until meat is cooked and tator tots are browned on the edges. Sprinkle cheese on top and bake till gold and bubbly.
Variation:
If you want to make this a one dish full meal, you can add frozen green peas on top of the meat, before you add the tator tots.
*We actually don’t know the proper name of this dish. We call it Czech Casserole because we got it from a Czech cookbook. ☺
Enjoy!
Paco’s Tacos
Ingredients:
1lb. Ground Beef*
Salt and Pepper to taste
¼ tsp Garlic Powder**
¼ tsp Onion Powder**
¼ tsp Essence of Emeril (opt)
Oil for frying
Flour or Corn tortillas
Lettuce
Sour Cream (I use no fat)
Mexican or Colby Jack Shredded Cheese
Salsa***
A-1 Steak Sauce****
Napkins – You’re gonna need them! ☺
Directions:
Brown ground beef in a skillet. Set aside on low heat to keep warm. Chop lettuce, set aside.
Heat oil in a shallow skillet on high or just below high, to lightly fry tortillas one at a time.
For the flour tortillas, only fry for several seconds on each side. When flour tortilla puffs up, remove from oil to drain on paper towels.
For corn tortillas you can do one of two things,
1. Very lightly fry them in the oil, just enough to make them soft for folding, then let drain on paper towels;
2. Heat them one at a time in a dry skillet until soft and slightly brown in spots, no more than a few seconds on each side (10-15 sec.). Remove from heat and set aside.
Assembly: (in order from bottom to top)
Top your tortilla with beef, A-1, cheese, salsa, sour cream, lettuce. Fold over or wrap, if you can, and enjoy.
*We use ground sirloin. I would not recommend ground chuck.
** These are approximate “guesstimates”. I shake until it looks right.
*** We use medium heat chunky salsa. Pace is a good brand, so is the HEB brand.
**** This is optional, but give it a try, very tasty!!
Enjoy!
posted by M at 6:48 PM
10 Comments:
Thankya ThankYa very much I will try both of these. Sounds like a very easy casserole and I luv easy. Have a happy Day!!
Ha ha for that Martha Stewart comment. Now if you start giving cleaning tips, I'll begin worrying.
Glad you gals like the recipes. As for the cleaning tips. No way! Martha would chastise me for weeks while she held a bull whip over her head shouting, "Heee-aaahh!, Heee-aahh!" trying to get me to clean the house the way "she" wanted it cleaned. Today Owen and David are cleaning Owen's room. Scary prospect. I'm catching up on laundry. YeeeHaaa!!!! It's gonna take me all blasted day.
I'm afraid most of the ingredients were in a completely foreign language for a simple girl from the UK. Or perhaps I'm just simple.
I can break them down into proper English if you are interested. Or at least I can try. :-)
Dave says not to fry the corn tortillas at all, but that's the way my mom always did it.
What in the name of all that is holy are Tator Tots?
Thank you.
Hello Herge Baby!! Thanks for stopping by! :-)
Tator Tots are shredded potatoes that are pressed into a round 1 inch rectangle, then fried and frozen. You can then fry them in zee classique French Technique or you can bake zem in zee oven unteel zay are golden and crunchee. Sorry, couldn't resist the whole French thing...
Are they like chips then? Our chips, not fries. But square.
I think maybe. I'd have to go to a real English pub in town and see what there chips are. Most of them call French Fries "chips". What do your chips look like? I know, it's such a personal question... [g]
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