Sunday, July 29, 2007

January 2, 2007 Taco Bake

Easy Tastebud Delights
Third Edition (January 2, 2007)
Easy Recipes
45 minutes+

Hi Everyone and Welcome to Easy Tastebud Delights. I found this recipe on the back of a Bisquick box and changed it to ingredients we had in the house. Because I already had the meat sauce in the freezer, I just needed to heat it through and add some taco seasoning and salsa.

This recipe won me a Trace Adkins CD/DVD combination disk set last month through our local country radio station's What's for Dinner! contest :oD Our oldest son suggested that I submit the recipe because he likes it so much, so we had to share the CD!

Taco Bake

Meat Sauce:
1 lb. of ground beef; cooked and drained
1 can of tomato sauce
1 can of diced tomatoes, undrained
1/2 tsp. of minced garlic or 1clove diced
1 can of stems and pieces mushrooms, undrained
1 diced onion
1 cup of canned beef stock
fresh herbs: rosemary or oregano
worchestershire sauce
tabasco sauce and
1/2 package of powdered taco seasoning and salsa

Cheese Layer:
1 cup of grated cheddar cheese and
1 tsp. of fresh grated parmesan cheese

Topping:
1 cup of boxed biscuit mix
1/2 cup of milk and
1 egg

1. Mix all the meat sauce ingredients to the browned and drained ground beef. Simmer.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
3. Grate cheeses, I use my food processor to speed up the process.
4. Mix the topping ingredients in a 4 cup measuring cup until blended.
5. With a soup ladle, pour meat sauce into a 9-inch square baking dish. Top with cheese then pour biscuit mix over cheese.
6. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown. ENJOY!

Makes 6 servings.

Any cooked leftover meat can be stored in freezer bags and frozen for future use for pasta sauce, chili or lasagna.

Serve with side salad or cut up veggies with dip: sweet peppers any colour, cucumber, tomato, carrots or anything that may be in your fridge. The dip could be any cream based salad dressing or sour cream with 1/2 package of onion soup mix added and blended well.
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