One pot pasta and meat dish - EASY!

↑ bubby

Sun, Jun 07 2009, 8:54 am

If I smothered the soy stuff in grated cheese maybe it would disguise it enough for them to eat!

Lovemylife

Sun, Jun 07 2009, 9:25 pm

Love this recipe -

I add mushrooms, peppers, celery whatever's on hand to the ground beef

I use manwich sauce from a can and add two can's worth of water to the pot

It freezes wonderfully! I make a big batch and freeze some. I usually mix one pkg of ground shoulder and 1 pkg of ground chicken/turkey to lower the fat

MommyLuv ↓

Sun, Jun 07 2009, 9:59 pm

This sounds like a great quick dinner idea. I wonder if you can sub. tomato paste for the ketchup? 1/2 cup sounds like a lot of ketchup to me.

↑ cookielady ↓

Sun, Jun 07 2009, 10:44 pm

MommyLuv wrote:

This sounds like a great quick dinner idea. I wonder if you can sub. tomato paste for the ketchup? 1/2 cup sounds like a lot of ketchup to me.

I'm sure it would work.

↑ OOTBubby ↓

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 10:20 am

MommyLuv wrote:

This sounds like a great quick dinner idea. I wonder if you can sub. tomato paste for the ketchup? 1/2 cup sounds like a lot of ketchup to me.

Sure, but you might want to adjust seasonings a little since tomato paste is much more bland than ketchup.

↑ MommyLuv

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 6:34 pm

Just finished eating this dish. My picky daughter even loved it. It was great!
And it was ready in 35 min. (even with whole wheat pasta. )

Thanks for the recipe! Smile

supermama2 ↓

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 6:37 pm

How many does this recipe feed? My boys ages 2-8 eat a LOT. I imagine I'd have to double this?

canadamom ↓

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 7:17 pm

I also add peppers and serve it in pitas with pickles. we call it sloppy joes.... it's yum

↑ cookielady ↓

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 7:18 pm

canadamom wrote:

I also add peppers and serve it in pitas with pickles. we call it sloppy joes.... it's yum

You put macaroni in your pita?

↑ anonymom

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 8:23 pm

Boys"R"Us wrote:

If you do it in the crock pot, is everything else exactly as above? And how long in the crock pot? High or low?
Thanks so much for the recipe... I'm always looking for fast/easy one pot dinners :-)

~Debbie

It's hard to answer because crockpots vary, but I think I put it on high till it was bubbling, then turned it to low when I went out. Just make sure there's plenty of liquid in there.

↑ canadamom

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 8:24 pm

I think the recipe I have has only 1/2 cup of pasta and it's mainly meat, yes we put it in pitas

Kay

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 8:30 pm

I made it tonight -it was delicious. fvll of flavovr. I did it with orzo but it's probably better with pasta since orzo cooks so fast. Anyway thanks for recipe.

flowerpower

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 9:12 pm

I made it tonight and used brown rice pasta. My kids actually ate it. Thanks.

↑ supermama2

Mon, Jun 08 2009, 10:21 pm

I made this tonight and doubled the recipe. We do have left overs but it's true that my pickiest eater ( my 5 y.o) ate this!! WOw Gosh.. can I say I love you cookielady LOL

elmos

Sun, Jun 14 2009, 8:57 pm

I make a mac n meat with tomato sauce but I have done a rice and meat with out sauce I brown the meat add one part raw rice two parts water and either spices that we lik such as pepper garlic onion pwder sometimes italian seasoning or some oher blend or I sometimes just use some onion soup mix and justkeep mixing it I have already done it for people who cannot handle anything but fresh garlic. I have done it on the stove or browned the meat and just put it all in the crock pot to cook on low.

lamp post

Mon, Jun 15 2009, 9:43 am

I made this (the original recipe in this thread) and it was quick, easy and delicious!!
Thanks Very Happy

ShakleeMom

Mon, Jun 15 2009, 10:20 am

I'm going to try this with beef stew today, nobody touches anything ground in this house.

willow

Mon, Jun 15 2009, 1:24 pm

why do you have to brown the meat before putting it in the crockpot?