A simple baked ziti strikes it rich with layers of sour cream, and three kinds of Italian cheese. Ready-made spaghetti sauce reduces the prep time, and ground meat is optional.
This Pasta Meatball Soup recipe contains frozen fully cooked Italian meatballs, kidney beans, shell pasta, meatless spaghetti sauce, diced tomatoes and more.
Prepared in a pressure cooker, kidney beans are cooked with fennel seed and cayenne pepper. This is very good mixed with cubed ham, or in red beans and rice.
Think of this dish as southern barbecue with an Asian twist. The pork is slow-cooked in a blend of hoisin and soy sauces and can be made a day or two before your gathering.
Here's a simple maple-flavored roast that will feed a crowd. It takes only 15 minutes to prepare, then slow roasts in the oven until it is fall-apart tender!
Slow cooked shredded ham in a brown sugar and mustard sauce. This is the sort of thing you prepare a day or so in advance so that when you serve it you don't really have to do much of anything at all. Great for times when people will be in and out, eating irregularly all day.
Sliced ham is layered in a casserole with pineapple and brown sugar then baked in ginger ale. My family does this every year with our Christmas Eve ham and it never fails to be anything but delicious! Scale it down and it will work to use up leftover ham too!
The classic casserole includes chicken breast, mayonnaise, creamy soup and broccoli; this version adds curry, red pepper and fried onions to name but a few of its 'different' elements.
