Some good food!!

Sunday we had Seth's mom and dad over for a Father's Day Dinner. We also wanted to show them all the videos and pictures from Disney, so it worked out great! I made their favorite pasta dish and salad. I have made this several times when they have some over, and they always seem to love it, or they are just being polite!!!

I got this recipe from my dad, and I think he got it out of the paper. When he told me what was in it, I thought he was crazy. There is NO way it could taste good, but it does!!
Here are the ingredients...

Yes, that is taco seasoning and spaghetti sauce!!

I use...

1 1/2 pounds of ground beef

1 jar spaghetti sauce

1 envelope of taco seasoning

shell pasta

8 oz. cream cheese

8 oz. chive and onion cream cheese

1 package of cheddar cheese

Cook the pasta and ground beef

While it is cooking, mix the cream cheese and sour cream together

Add the spaghetti sauce to the cooked and drained hamburger--mix together

Add 1/2 of the cream cheese mixture and mix together

Add the drained pasta and mix together

Pour into a casserole dish ans top with remaining cream cheese mixture, like below.

Add about 1/4 of the cheddar cheese on top and bake for 45 minutes or so on 400. Add the rest of cheddar cheese and bake a little longer, just to melt cheese!!

I don't have a picture of the finished product, I didn't want my mother-in-law to think I was nuts to take a picture of food!!

As the side, I made another one of her favorites, salad!! Not just any salad, salad with homemade Italian dressing. I got this recipe from the secretary at Quincy, and it is AMAZING!!

1 package of good seasons Italian dressing mix

1/2 cup oil

4 T water

2 T vinegar

1T honey

1T sunflower seeds

1T Parmesan cheese

mix all together and refrigerate

I serve it with spinach leaves, some mozzarella cheese, and croutons. Oh, so yummy!!!! This is the ONLY salad my husband will eat, it is that good!!

For dessert I made home made ice cream and Neapolitan cupcakes!!! Here they are all decorated, I suck at decorating cupcakes, so these aren't that great!!

Here is the inside of the cupcakes!! So cute, and pretty yummy too!

Anyway, I love cooking and reading and trying new recipes. Doing this, and for some reason deciding to document it and blog about it got me thinking...how cool would it be to do a cooking blog??? Ok, I am not as talented or have enough time to do this on my own but how cool would it be to get 7 women, and each one have a day of the week. On their day they would post a new recipe, craft, idea...it could be called something like...7 women...7 days. Oh, the things I cook up while Dylan is napping and Seth is mowing. They shouldn't leave me alone often, I think of way too many things!!!!!!!!! So, would you read a blog like that? Would you be a woman that would want a day each week to blog about something other woman would want to know about?