Sarah's Taco Salad

What you need:

• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 cans of refried beans
• Mexican Quinoa (see recipe)
• 6 slices Havarti cheese
• Lettuce Romain Hearts
• Tortilla chips
• Black olives
• salsa
• Homemade Taco Seasoning

What to do:

1. Cook ground beef until cooked through. In small dish, stir 1/4 cup of water with about 1 Tbsp taco seasoning, Stir in with beef.
2. In separate saucepan, add 4 Tbsp of butter, two cups of Mexian Quinoa and cans of refried beans and about 2 Tbsp of taco seasoning. Once heated through add 6 slices of cheese. Stir until bean mixture is mixed well
3. Chop the lettuce in to shreds
4. Serve beef, beans and lettuce with black olives, salsa and chips

Roast Lamb, Mashed Sweet Potato and Gravy

Roast Lamb

What you need:

• Leg of Lamb 
• Cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp thyme or rosemary
• salt and pepper

What to do:

1. Make small slits in the lamb and insert a sliver of garlic clove in each slit.
2. Rub the lamb well with salt, pepper and thyme or rosemary
3. Place the lamb in the crockpot on low for 5-6 hours with about a cup of broth
4. Once done, if you'd like you can place the lamb in the oven for about ten minutes on broil to brown it

Mashed Sweet Potato

What you need:

• 4 large sweet potatoes 
• milk
• butter
• salt and pepper

What to do:

1. Place washed sweet potatoes in crockpot
2. Cook on low for 5-6 hours until tender when poked with a knife
3. Let cool for a bit and take the skins off
4. Mash potatoes with a blender adding butter and milk until creamy
5. Salt and pepper to taste

Gravy

What you need:

• Broth from lamb
• flour
• salt and pepper

What to do:

1. Reserve a couple of Tbsp of Lamb fat aside.
2. In saucepan bring lamb broth to boil until it cooks down
3. In separate dish whisk together 2 Tbsp of flour and the fat until flour is dissolved
4. Add roux to the broth in saucepan being sure to whisk while adding to prevent lumping
5. Simmer until thickened
6. Salt and pepper to taste

Sarah's Spaghetti Squash n Chicken

What you need:

• One Spaghetti Squash
• Olive oil
• Salt
• 6 finely chopped garlic cloves
• 5 raw mushrooms diced
• 6 large leaves of finely chopped kale
• 1 cup shredded chicken
• Pepper

What to do:

1. Cook chicken thighs in crockpot on low for about 5 hours
2. Shred the cooked chicken thighs using a handheld mixer
3. Cut spaghetti squash in half and scoop out the seeds. Then cook squash in the crockpot for about 4 hours until tender
4. In a pan saute garlic, mushrooms, kale and salt until tender
5. Add chicken and spaghetti squash.
6. Pepper to taste. 
7. Serve with Parmesan Cheese

Banana Sour Cream Bread

Banana Sour Cream Bread ~ Simply Delicious Amish Cooking pg 25

Sarah's Mexican Quinoa

What you need:

• 1 onion minced
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 32 oz Pacific brand chicken broth or homemade
• Homemade taco seasoning
• 1 Tbsp cilantro
• 2 cups quinoa
• 1 can black beans drained
• 1 can pinto beans drained

What to do:

1. Saute one minced onion and four cloves of garlic in 1 Tbsp of olive oil
2. Stir 1/5 Tbsp of taco seasoning and cilantro with a little chicken broth
3. Then add to onion mixture.
4. Add rest of chicken broth then add uncooked quinoa, black beans and pinto beans
5. Cook on high about twenty minutes or until quinoa is tender.

Easy CrockPot Roast Chicken

What you need:

• Whole Chicken 
• Salt and Pepper
• Italian Seasoning

What to do:

1. Place the whole chicken in crockpot rubbed with salt, pepper and Italian Seasoning
2. Cook on high for 3-4 hrs then transfer to a glass pan.
3. Place in oven on lo broil for about ten minutes until golden brown.

Sarah's Cheeseburger Casserole

What you need:

• 1 lb ground beef  
• salt and pepper 
• 4 cloves of chopped garlic
• 1 onion diced
• 4 Tbsp of butter
• 4 Tbsp of flour
• 3 cups of milk
• Package of Penne Rigata Pasta
• Havarti cheese slices
• Parmesan cheese

What to do:

1. Brown 1 lb ground beef
2. Season with salt, pepper and garlic
3. Saute onions in 4 Tbsp butter.
4. Add flour until stirred into butter and onions.
5. Stir in milk and cook on low until thickened
6. Meanwhile cook pasta per package directions
7. In 9 x 15 glass baking dish layer meat, a layer of sliced cheese, then add the cooked noodles. Lastly, pour the thickened sauce over everything. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
8. Bake until browned at 350

Mushroom Soup

What you need:

• 1 Tbsp. Olive Oil
• 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
• 1/2 cup chopped carrots
• 1/2 chopped onion
• 2 cups water
• 1/4 cup quick-cooking barley (Quaker Brand from Meijer) 
• or 1/4 cup of Quinoa 
• 2 Tbsp. all purpose flour
• 3 cups whole milk
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper

What to do:

1. In a saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add mushrooms, carrot and onions.
2. Cook and stir five minutes
3. Add water and barley. Bring to boil.
4. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 12-15 minutes or until barley is tender.
5. In a small bowl, mix flour, milk, salt and pepper until smooth; stir into soup.
6. Return to a boil (takes about 15 minutes), stirring constantly; then cook and stir 1-2 minutes or until thickened.