What's for Dinner @ Taylors

What's For Dinner? Sharing creative, seasonal, healthy, simple meal ideas

Have you ever struggled with what to serve for dinner and wondered what your neighbors were having? Well, here is your chance to find out! As a Relief Society, we will be sharing our meal ideas with our "What's For Dinner?" project. On a regular basis, we will hand out a seven-day meal plan by one of YOU, with recipes and notes included. Our objective is to provide a variety of ideas, from the expertise and talent within our own Relief Society, to help us improve our meals at home. Let someone in the RS Presidency know if you have some ideas that you want to share!

Here is the first edition: What's for Dinner @ the Taylor's

Minestrone a La Milanese - Eileen Ostler

1/4 lb. bacon
1/2 cup diced onion
1 clove garlic, quartered
6 beef bouillon cubes
6 cups boiling water
1/2 cup peeled, sliced carrots
1/2 cup diced celery
1 cup fresh green beans, cut in 1/2-inch slices
1/2 cup peeled, sliced potatoes
1 cup sliced zucchini squash
1 cup shredded cabbage
3 medium tomatoes, peeled and diced
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 teaspoon basil leaves
1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper
Grated Parmesan cheese

Place Dutch oven over medium heat. Add bacon and cook until bacon is browned and crisp. Remove bacon and drain on paper towels. Add onion and garlic to bacon fat in dutch oven and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned. Add bouillon cubes, water, carrots, celery, green beans, and potatoes. Reduce heat to low. Cover with vac-control valve closed. Simmer 20-25 minutes. Add squash, cabbage, tomatoes, parsley, basil leaves and pepper. Cover and simmer 10 minutes. Crumble bacon and stir into hot soup. Serve with Parmesan, Mozzarella, or cheddar cheese sprinkled over the top. Makes about 2 quarts. Enjoy!!

Zucchini Boats - Linda Jackson

4 med. zucchinis (about 2 lbs.)
1/2 lbs. bulk pork sausage
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup fine cracker crumbs
1 slightly beaten egg
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. thyme
Dash each of garlic salt and pepper

Cook whole zucchini in boiling salted water till barely tender 7-10 min. depending on the size (Don't over cook). Cool slightly. Cut in half lengthwise; scoop pulp from shells and mash. (I use a potato masher).
Cook sausage and onion; drain excess fat. Stir in mashed zucchini. Reserve 2 Tbs. cheese; mix in remaining ingredients. Spoon into zucchini shells; place in shallow baking dish. Sprinkly with reserved Parmesan Cheese.  Bake at 350 for 25-30 min.

Jumbalaya - Dave Prows

Render the sausage (brown / caramelize over low heat). Add onion, garlic, celery and green pepper. Saute. Add chicken stock, Tabasco, herbs (basil, oregano, and thyme), and kitchen bouquet. Bring to a boil. Add rice, use converted not instant, and simmer covered until rice is done and water absorbed.

* if using seafood instead of sausage, use a tomato base instead of chicken stock
** Tabasco has vinegar which breaks down the protein in the meat and releases flavor - you don't want to exclude this!!

Caribbean Pork & Rice - Karlene Von

2 lbs pork tenderloin
1 onion
2 chopped carrots
3 spoonfuls bbq sauce
1 tsp ground ginger
1 green pepper chopped
2 c minute rice

cook pork in a little oil. add onion and carrot until tender and pork is done. mix in rest of ingredients and bring to a boil. cover and let stand 5 minutes.