Daily Recipe Round-up for February 24, 2012

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Food Network

Perfect Fondue

Total Time: 10 min

Prep: 10 min

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 23, 2012

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Food Network

Bobby’s Minestrone with Parmigiano-Reggiano

Total Time: 1 hr 5 min

Prep: 20 min

Cook: 45 min

Yield: 8 servings

Level: Easy

Bacon Potato Omelet

Recipe modified by You Want Me to Cook? – September 4, 2011

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Bacon Potato Omelet recipe originally published in Taste of Home Holiday Collection 2008.

My husband rarely cooks, but he makes a MEAN breakfast.  His eggs come out perfect sunnyside-up.  The bacon is oh-so-crisp.  There are hash browns that make my mouth water.  Of course, this is the exact menu we have each time… not that I mind at all.  On occasion, I do enjoy mixing things up a little and that’s when I take over.

So when I look at the ingredients of this recipe, it mimics very closely my husband’s "Breakfast of Success."  I love omelets!  I LOVE me some bacon!  And everything is better with cheese.  I decided to give my loving husband a break and made this yummy looking Bacon Potato Omelet.

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Bacon Potato Omelet

I was ridiculously proud of the way it looked when I was done.  Usually my omelets are broken, oozing messes.  They’re in one piece, but they’re never what I’d call “pretty”.  Yeah, I know it all looks like mush in our stomach, but I do enjoy looking at nice looking food before I eat it.

It looked perfectly cooked and was almost identical to the picture published with the recipe.

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 22, 2012

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Food Network

Easy Banana Pudding

Total Time: 35 min

Prep: 35 min

Yield: 4 servings

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 21, 2012

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Food Network

Penne with Turkey Ragu

Total Time: 35 min

Prep: 15 min

Cook: 20 min

Yield: 4 servings

Level: Easy

Bruschetta Minute Steaks

Recipe modified by You Want Me to Cook? – September 1, 2011

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Bruschetta Minute Steaks recipe originally published in Kraft Recipes Magazine – Spring 2011.

When I plan meals, I always go for dinner menus.  What that means is that I have nothing to make for lunch unless I’m going with a standard lunchmeat sandwich or salad.  It isn’t a bad thing, but every once in a while I crave something a little more complex.  With my chores at home adding in errands and working on the blogs, I usually don’t feel like making gigantic meals.

I guess my point is I like looking for simple recipes using some convenience foods that I can make healthier.  If I can stay out of the fast food line at lunch time, that’s even better.

So I saw this recipe and was excited.  It used sandwich steaks that can be made in a jiffy.  Also, it’s dressed up with vegetables and isn’t a sandwich (or at least it wasn’t meant to be eaten as a sandwich).

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Bruschetta Minute Steaks

So starting with the obvious – it isn’t the same kind of steak.  I couldn’t find a “beef minute steak” so I went with what I found as the next best thing: a sandwich steak.  They had a comparable cook time and I could stack two on top of each other to give the same amount of thickness.

It didn’t turn out as well as I hoped.  Looking back, I probably should have bought a flat steak or flank steak and cut it into smaller pieces, but I can't change the past.

My sandwich steaks didn’t hold together well, so I decided to turn it Philly style where the beef was shredded.  Although I plated it separately, I decided to eat these as a sandwich (picture shown later) on a pretzel roll.

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 20, 2012

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Food Network

Old-Time Beef Stew

Video!!!

Total Time: 2 hr 20 min

Prep: 5 min

Cook: 2 hr 15 min

Yield: 6 servings

Level: Easy

Pat’s Famous Beef and Pork Chili

Video!!!

Total Time: 2 hr 0 min

Prep: 15 min

Cook: 1 hr 45 min

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Level: Easy

Anne’s Meatballs

Total Time: 1 hr 23 min

Prep: 40 min

Cook: 43 min

Yield: 18 to 20 meatballs

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 13, 2012

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Food Network

Red Velvet Layer Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 50 min

Prep: 1 hr 10 min

Cook: 40 min

Yield: 8 to 10 servings

Level: Easy

Weekend Recipe Round-up for February 11-12, 2012

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Food Network

Chocolate Chip French Toast

Total Time: 35 min

Prep: 25 min

Cook: 10 min

Yield: 2 to 4 servings

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 10, 2012

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Food Network

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 3 hr 20 min

Prep: 20 min

Inactive: 1 hr 30 min

Cook: 1 hr 30 min

Yield: 10 to 12 servings

Level: Easy

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 9, 2012

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Land o’ Lakes

Fudgy Raspberry Brownies

15 min. Prep time

1:25 Total time

36 brownies

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 8, 2012

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Food Network

Pasta Puttanesca

Video!!!

Total Time: 17 min

Prep: 5 min

Cook: 12 min

Yield: 4 (1 1/2 cup) servings

Level: Easy

Spicy Chard Soup

Total Time: 40 min

Prep: 20 min

Cook: 20 min

Yield: 4 servings

Level: Easy

Individual Banana Puddings

Recipe modified by You Want Me to Cook? – August 25, 2011

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Individual Banana Puddings recipe originally published in All You – April 2011.

I’ll be honest, I often pick recipes based on what I want to eat.  That’s not to say that I don’t take my husband’s taste into account – I know what he likes and doesn’t like and wouldn’t force him to eat something he would hate – but for the most part I’m the one who sets the menu for the week.

This recipe is all about him though.

He LOVES banana pudding and can even whip up a quickie batch using instant pudding and Cool Whip.  I enjoy making pudding from scratch so when I saw this recipe, I knew he would love it.

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Individual Banana Puddings

First I need to state the obvious… it isn’t an individual pudding serving.  I really wanted to try the recipe, but don’t own ramekins.  I know.  THE HORROR!  I found a serving dish that would accommodate the amount of pudding, bananas and cookies and made it as a dessert dish.  This picture is of an individual serving.  My pudding looks thicker and seems to be more banana and cookie than “puddingish”.

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 7, 2012

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Every Day with Rachael Ray

Beef-and-Portobello Minestroganoff

4 servings

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 25 mins

Daily Recipe Round-up for February 6, 2012

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Allrecipes

Slow Cooker Tuscan Chicken

Servings: 6 servings