Christmas Entertaining? Try This Easy Christmas Eve Beef Pie Recipe

With all the rich food coming on Christmas day, this easy Christmas Eve Beef Pie is hearty, filling, and so tasty!  Share this recipe with your family and friends…and add your own variations!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1/4 cup chopped green pepper
• 1 cup tomato sauce with mushrooms
• 1 cup green beans, drained
• dash cumin seed
• dash garlic salt
• 1/2 tsp salt to taste
• 1 cn Refrigerated Quick Crescent Dinner Rolls
• 1 egg, beaten slightly
• 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack or Cheddar Cheese
• dash Paprika

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 375. 
2. In large fry pan, brown ground geef onion, and green pepper; drain off fat.
3. Stir in tomato sauce, beans, cumin, garlic salt and salt; simmer while preparing crust.
4. Separate crescent dough into 8 triangles.  Place traingles in an ungreased 9 inch pie pn; press over bottm  and up the sides to form the crust. 
5. Combine egg nd 1 cup of cheese.  Spread over crust.
6. Spoon hot meat mixture into crust.  Sprinkle with remaining cheese and paprika. 
7. Bake 20 minutes.  For easier serving, let it stand 5 minutes before cutting into pie wedges.

Serve with a green salad, and your favorite rolls or french bread.  Christmas Eve meal is done!  Coffee?

Budget Friendly Main Dishes – Leftover Chicken Turnovers

Do you have leftover chicken and you’re wondering how to prepare it the second time around?

Try this and you’ll do it with other kinds of leftover meats as well:

Chop leftover chicken into small bits, add leftover mixed veggies, also chopped into small pieces, and toss with a nicely seasoned white sauce. 

Spoon small mounds into the center of refrigerated crescent roll dough, fold over to the triangle shape, being careful not to over stuff.  Seal ends well with a fork, or eggwash. 

Bake to make flaky, tender main dish turnovers.  Add a salad, and some iced tea and you’ve got dinner even the kids will love!

Budget Friendly Main Dishes-Meat Loaf

The secret ingredient of rubbed sage makes this meatloaf high on flavor and low on expense.  Every family needs budget friendly main dishes today!

If you are a beginning cook, this easy and budget Friendly Main Dish is for you!  You’ll be out of the kitchen in no time!

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 lb ground beef
• 18 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp rubbed sage
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 c chopped onion
• 3/4 c quick-cooking oats
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/3 c evaporated milk
• 1 egg
• 1/4 c ketchup

Procedure: 

• In bowl, mix the egg, milk, worcestershire sauce, oats, onion, salt sage and pepper. 
• Add beef and mix, being careful not to overmix as this will make the meatloaf tough.
• Press into loaf baking pan, ungreased.
• Bake at 350 for one hour or until meat is at least 160F.
• Top with ketchup and bake 10 minutes to heat sauce thoroughly.
• Let stand for about 10 minutes before slicing. 

Yield:  6 servings.