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Frozen Dinner Diner: Updates


The last couple of recipes I've featured here were both dishes I had not yet tried. Since then, though, I have, and I think they're both very good.

Pizza Bake

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I didn't make this one exactly according to recipe because I thought I had the ingredients on hand but I did not. I was missing the egg noodles and the pizza sauce. I made do with 10 ounces of elbow macaroni instead, but I had no substitute for the pizza sauce so I ran to Dollar General to get some. DG didn't have any, though, so I bought the stuff to make my own. (One 15-ounce can of tomato sauce, one 6-ounce can of tomato paste, a dash of paprika and and a teaspoon of garlic. I had the garlic and paprika at home, so I needed to buy only the tomato stuff.)

The pizza sauce recipe makes more than a jar of sauce holds, but what was leftover didn't seem to be worth saving, so I dumped it all in the recipe.

Bottom line, I really liked it. It reheated well as a frozen dinner, and it's very filling. The original recipe says it makes 6 servings, but I got 8 out of what I made. Maybe with egg noodles, it's not as bulky.

Layered Beef Casserole

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Mmmmmmm. I really liked this dish, too. I made this one exactly as the recipe said, though I was leery about whether the flavors from the foods on top would meld with those below, but they did. I especially liked the way the potatoes tasted.

This one also reheated well. I'll definitely make it again.
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