Dinner Time!

For the past few days Rick has not been feeling too good. It started last Friday and got worse by that night and in to Saturday morning. Enoch's baptism was on Saturday morning down in Spanish Fork so after the baptism (which I will definitely make a separate post about that) and family lunch Kimbri and I stayed in Spanish Fork so that Rick could just be at home and have some quiet, relaxing, restful time. 

I guess to make a long story short, right before we left Spanish Fork to head back home that night my dad loaded us up with a whole bag full of fresh produce from the garden!! It included squash, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, a green and orange bell pepper and even some fresh beans! My dad has an amazing garden!! He then added in a couple cups of rice and two chicken breasts to the bag of produce and instructed me on how to make a primo stir fry! On the way home I called Rick to see if that even sounded good to his throat and he said it actually did.

When I got home I started in on making the stir fry and oh boy did it turn out oh so good! I big thank you to my dad! It was delicious. And we even had leftovers for the next day! There's just something extra yummy about vegetables from the garden. And I can't wait for homemade salsa with onions, tomatoes and peppers from my dad's garden! Yum :) 

Anyway, I also tried a recipe that I found online that we tried making for dinner tonight.  A couple of days ago I went through our pantry/food storage area to do a little organizing and to check for expiration dates to see what we needed to use. Everything is still good for quite a while still except for two cans of tomato soup that had a "best by" date of August 2, 2012. So, since I didn't know of any easy recipes off the top of my head that used tomato soup as an ingredient I looked online.

I found that one lady posted a meal that she often throws together for her family which she called "goulash". Rick informed me that that's a term people use when they just throw a bunch of stuff together and mix it up for a quick easy meal.  Well, this recipe sounded good so we tried it for dinner tonight! And we even had leftover bell peppers and onions from my dad's garden that we used in it! 

Here's the recipe in case any of you want to try it:

½ lb. ground chuck 

garlic

green bell pepper

fistful red onion

1 tsp oregano 

2 cans Campbell’s tomato soup

1 Tablespoon white vinegar

ketchup to taste

¼ cup of water

black pepper 

2 cups elbow macaroni

Cook the macaroni in a large pot of boiling salted water (rinse and drain if you are cooking it before the sauce is done). Cook the beef, onion, garlic, and green pepper all together. Add soup, 1 tablespoon vinegar, ketchup and water. Simmer for half an hour partially covered and then stir in the cooked macaroni.

 I didn't add any ketchup because I thought that sounded weird, but that's just me. And I used a regular onion instead of a red onion. I also decided to throw a little mozzarella cheese on top since we had a little extra that is about to expire in a few days. And also a huge thanks to Uncle Doug for the beef! 

Well, Rick and Kimbri approved of the new recipe! And naturally I took some pictures of Kimbri eating it. Don't worry, I didn't take any of Rick eating it, that would just not be quite as cute. Haha:)

Kimbri is so good at feeding herself!

She often tries to feed me...

I love that messy little face. It's too cute!

Well, needless to say, Rick gave me the okay to keep this recipe and make it again. It was way easy and pretty tasty! I always like to try new recipes!