How to Make Hot Dog Octopus - Step by Step Recipe

my favourite buger (home made )

bun- lettuce -buffalo meat  burger

cheeze slice- onion- cheeze slice -

tomato- bacon - bun

pickles on the side  - baby dills

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Many of these recipes, while they sound fantastic, have ingredients that are 'unfamiliar' to some of us, in particular those of us who don't live in the USA

However, that goes both ways I guess!

This is a simple dish, among many of my own recipes, which the kiddies at my Nursery enjoy and which teaches them to enjoy vegetables:

Sausage Casserole a la Whitton Day Nursery

Ingredients:

2 – 3 pork, beef, chicken or vegetarian sausages per person (according to age/appetite and dietry requirements)

I large clove of garlic, chopped or crushed, or 1 - 2 heaped teaspoons garlic puree

1 large onion, finely chopped – or you can buy ready chopped to save time

2 - 4 large carrots and 125 - 250g of fresh green beans, chopped into chunks.

You may also wish to include other vegetables and pulses – courgettes, tinned or frozen sweetcorn and pre-cooked green or brown lentils, for example

4 - 5 medium - large mushrooms, chopped into small chunks

½ each of red, yellow and orange peppers (capiscums), chopped into small chunks

1 – 2 tins of chopped tomatoes or 1.5lbs of fresh tomatoes, chopped and, if preferred, deseeded.

1 tin of baked beans in tomato sauce

Your choice of chopped fresh herbs or a palm-full of dried Mediterranean herbs

½ - ¾ pint of either chicken or vegetable stock

Freshly ground black pepper - extra salt should be excluded from this recipe if it is to be served to children* see below

Method:

Fry, grill, or oven-bake the sausages until they are browned and cooked through -then drain off any fat and set aside.

In the meantime, stir-fry the onions, garlic, herbs and chopped peppers in a large non-stick pan or wok, in vegetable or olive oil, a knob of butter and pleanty of freshly ground black pepper, on a medium – high heat for 3 minutes and then add the carrots and green beans and continue to stir-fry for a further 2 – 3 minutes.

Add the mushrooms (and chopped courgettes if desired) turning up the heat, and stir-fry for another few minutes until the mushrooms have reduced in size - all children will eat mushrooms as long as they cannot ‘recognise’ them – and the courgettes have started to brown. By this time the scents of the frying vegetables should have your mouth watering in anticipation…

Add the chopped tomatoes and stock and bring back to a simmer until the sauce has reduced a little and the carrots and green beans have softened a little

Add the cooked sausages (which you may choose to cut into slices for children) and braise gently for 2-3 minutes – then taste the sauce and season with more freshly ground black pepper and a little freshly ground sea salt if needed*.

Add the baked beans, sweetcorn and any other pre-cooked pulses at the end of this stage and just a couple of  minutes before serving – not only does this help to thicken the gravy but it also adds extra nutrition in the form of protein, vitamins and essential minerals, the baked beans may even make the dish more attractive to your children! Serve either with warm crusty bread, mashed or new potatoes

This dish provides most of the nutrients required by growing children, and adults, and supplies at least 2 of the 5-a-day vegetables/fruits recommended for healthy eating in addition to other essential dietry requirements.

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Here's a family favorite for a winter night and day and night

Cream Tacos

• 2 cans chili (1 lb cans, no beans)
• 1 pt. half & half
• 2 cans Ranch Style Beans drained
• 1 can Rotel
• 1 lb Longhorn cheese (grated)

Thoroughly heat chili, beans and Rotel. Add H & H, reheat. Add cheese, reheat, but don't boil.

Serve very hot over regular Fritos.

                               Recipes Wanted

Now that I have your attention , I am into my soup, hearty beans and hot stuff mode.  I really would like a Hearty Corn Chowder recipe. Nothing to complicated or fancy, I am into good old fashioned family cooking.  JuJu, the scalloped corn looks delish, and I will try that one  soon. I am thinking it would be great with some fried Pork Steaks   

This is one of the dishes that iam making tomorrow

     Scalloped Corn

4 cups fresh or frozen corn

3 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup  saltines crackers, ( about 30 crackers) crushed and divided

3 Tablespoons butter or Margarine , melted

1 Tablespoon sugar

1 Tablespoon finely chopped onions

salt and pepper to your taste

In a large bowl , combine corn , eggs, milk , 3/4 of the crackers crumbs , sugar ,onions, salt and pepper in a greased 1-1/2qt. baking dish at 325 degrees 1 hour or until knife comes out clean

This serves 6  but I always double it because it is so good , enjoy

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