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I decided to create a blog so that I could share recipes with my family and friends :) I am very family orientated and love to spend time with them any chance I get and most of my close friends, I consider to be like family. This blog will be kept short, simple and fun. I love to cook in the kitchen and try new recipes so if you have any new ones you would like me to try....just email me or comment :)

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Italian Crescent Casserole

It has been awhile since I last posted any recipes, but I have been pretty busy being a new Mom and getting things straight between being a wife, mother and now back to a working woman.

This is a recipe that Kyle and I have had before when we had friends over to our house. I love crescent rolls and so this was the perfect recipe to make again, especially since Kyle says that we never have the same meal twice in our house. (That will be changing though with a new little one. I will try to make 2 new recipes a week instead of aiming for 4 times.)

This time, I decided to just use a square casserole dish instead of a circle one. The picture isn't as neat as the first time I made it (wish I had a picture of it) bc I just threw it together really quickly.




Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef, cooked and drained
1 cup garlic tomato pasta sauce
1 can (8 oz.) Pillsbury crescent rolls
1 1/2 cups shredded Italian cheese blend
1/4 tsp. dried basil leaves

I added:
1/2 Tbsp. garlic
1/4 tsp. parsley
dash of oregano

What To Do:
  • Preheat oven to 375 F
  • In a skillet, cook ground beef and drain grease
  • Put back in skillet and add pasta sauce (garlic if you choose to) and cook until warm
  • Separate crescent dough into the 8 triangles
  • Place dough in an ungreased 9 inch glass pie plate with the narrow tips overlapping the rim of the plate about 3 inches (This is where mine looks different this time because I used a square dish)
  • Press dough in side and bottom of pan to form crust and cover the pan
  • Sprinkle with 1 cup of cheese over dough
  • Spoon meat mixture over cheese
  • Bring tips of dough over filling to meet in the center
  • Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese over the dish followed by the basil (parsley and oregano)
  • Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes (we did 20 so that the edge of the crust was brown and crunchy 

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