Wednesday 12 June 2013

Beef & Spinach Casserole

Good day/night everyone!
Welcome back for Season 2 of Tizzle Sizzles. This time around I've decided why limit myself to just one particular type of food when there are so many choices out there. This time around I've also added into the itinerary a couple festivals around Belize that involves food...lots of food! :) 

So today we'll kick things off with my FAVORITE type of food, BAKED CHEESY GOODNESS, the Casserole.

Casseroles are classic, everyone's grandmother. mother, or favorite aunt have all made this and we've always looked forward to them. It's such a good way to make a lot on a budget. For single people its great cause we can put it away and have food for a long time, large families can rack up grocery bills, casseroles are cheap easy, filling and makes a large quantity. It was "invented" in Berlin, New Hampshire USA by a fellow named  Elmire Jolicoeur, a French Canadian immigrant in 1866, it just kind of kept getting reinvented throughout the decades.

So now let's get to the ingredients so we know how to make this bad boy of a casserole.

Ingredients:

-1 can 14oz Evaporated Milk
-Salt (to your taste)
-2pk 8oz Penne Pasta
-1pk Round Steak chopped up into bite size pieces
-2 handfuls Spinach chopped up (I have tiny hands)
-3/4lb Shredded Mozzarella Cheese 
-1 can Nestle Medium Cream (225g)
-2 eggs
-1cup bread crumbs
-black pepper
-4 cloves garlic chopped
-2tsp Olive oil

Direction:

Put Pasta to boil in a large pot with about 1/2tsp salt and 1tsp olive oil. Cut meat into small bite size cubes and season with salt and pepper. Cook with Spinach in a frying pan, add the other 1tsp olive oil.




Let the Pasta cook for only 10 minutes, it will finish cooking in the oven. After 10 minutes have passed, drain pasta pour it back into the pot and add grated carrots meat & spinach stir and add in chopped garlic and mix well.



Grease casserole dish with a light layer of olive oil. Pour half of the pasta into the casserole dish add grated Mozzarella cheese add the rest of pasta over it and sprinkle the rest of the Mozzarella cheese on top along with the 1 cup of bread crumbs. Preheat oven to 375F or 190C. Mix in a container the 2 eggs, 1 can med cream, 1 can evaporated milk and mix good. Pour mixture into dish and bake for 15 minutes. After you take it out let sit for 5 mins cut and serve. goes great with a nice big salad or just by itself. 



The end product...isn't she lovely? Please don't burn your tongue :) Good Night see you next week.



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