These quick and easy recipes have a homemade feel but make dinnertime easy with packaged or pre-made ingredients. Make dinnertime easy with help from the grocery store.
These recipes combine made-from-scratch elements with packaged or pre-made products to create quick, easy, and tasty meals. Using pre-made products to make meals that still feel homemade is smart cooking, especially as lifestyles grow more and more hectic.
Semi-Homemade Cheesy Chili Bake
- 2 cans (15 oz each) Hormel Turkey Chili with Beans
- 1 ½ cups uncooked macaroni noodles
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1 green pepper, finely chopped
- 1 small garlic clove, minced
- 1 ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cook the macaroni noodles according to the package directions.
- In a large skillet, melt 2 tbsp of butter or margarine.
- Add the onions, peppers, and garlic to the pan and sauté over medium heat until softened.
- Add both cans of chili to the sauté pan.
- Turn the heat to low and leave on heat until well heated.
- Once the noodles have cooked, drain the macaroni and add to the chili.
- Remove the mixture from the heat.
- Place the chili and macaroni in the casserole pan.
- Stir on the shredded cheese.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes.
- 1 Box Pasta Roni Nature’s Way- Creamy Parmesano
- 1 whole zucchini, sliced
- 1 whole yellow squash, sliced
- 1 green pepper, cut in thin strips
- 1 red bell pepper, cut in thin strips
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 glove garlic, finely chopped
- ¼ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 3 Tbsp butter or margarine
- 1 Tsp Freshly ground black peppercorn
- Cook the Pasta Roni according to the box directions.
- In a large sauté pan over medium heat, melt 1 tbsp of butter.
- Add the vegetables to the sauté pan and sauté the vegetables until vegetables are softened, about 10-15 minutes then turn the heat to low.
- Once the Pasta Roni is cooked, add the pasta to the sauté pan with the vegetables.
- Add the remaining butter and freshly cracked peppercorns.
- Toss over low heat until well-combined.
- Remove from heat, add freshly grated parmesan cheese, and serve.
- 2 Can Campbells’ Condensed Cream of Asparagus Soup
- 1 ¾ cup Milk
- 1 Small Onion Diced
- 5 Strips Bacon, Diced
- 2, 6-oz packages of crab meat
- Pinch Nutmeg
- ½ tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 1 Tbsp butter or oil
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter or heat the oil.
- Once heated add the bacon and onion to the saucepan.
- Cook the bacon and onion, stirring frequently. Once cooked, turn the heat to low.
- Add the soup, milk, and seasoning to the saucepan with the sautéed bacon and onion and stir well.
- Heat the soup over low heat, stirring often to ensure the soup does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
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