Creamy Tuna Bake


You will need…
1 ½ cups dried macaroni pasta
2 x 425g cans tuna in spring water drained
cooking spray
1 teaspoon crushed garlic
2 cups mushrooms sliced
½ cup shallots or onion sliced
1 cup frozen corn kernels
1 x 310g can creamed corn
2 teaspoons salt reduced chicken style stock powder (Massel®)
2 x 30g sachets 4 cheese sauce (Continental®)
1½ cups boiling water
½ cup grated tasty cheese

Method…
Preheat oven 180ºC fan forced.
Cook pasta as instructed on packet, leave to one side. Drain tuna and roughly break up, leave to one side. Coat a large non-stick frypan with cooking spray, saut garlic and mushrooms, cook 2 minutes. Add tuna, shallots, corn kernels, cream corn and stock powder and combine. In a small bowl combine 4 cheese sauce with boiling water until blended. Add cheese sauce to pan, fold together. Add pasta and stir well. Pour into a casserole dish. Sprinkle cheese over top and bake 30 minutes or until cheese has melted and browned on top.

You can also substitute the tuna for 500g of cooked diced chicken pieces.

For an extra yummy topping, I like to sprinkle with bread crumbs and and halve whole baby beetroots and place them on top before cooking. Serves: 6

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Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore


10-pieces of chicken-…thighs, legs, wings.
2-large onions slices thinly
5-large potatoes-cut in quarters
4 mushrooms sliced
1-can crushed tomatoes
4-tsp. salt
4-tsp. black pepper
4-tsp. oregano
1 TBSP olive oil
1 cup water
Olives to serve

Mix all these ingredients in a bowl until well blended. Pour into
crockpot and cook 6 hours on low
Before serving add a handful of tasty olives. Serve with some nice crusty Italian
bread and a tossed salad.

Thinking Blogger Award

We’ve been tagged by cousins over at The Meezer Mirror, thanks guys :)   ( it was very hard to choose, all the cat blogs had already been tagged)

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).

Meg-Blogpond She gets me thinking about lots great online/aussie/girly things, how many great Aussie Bloggers there are with her Top 100 index.  And also, that there are some great geeky girls out there (even if the 20 something males out number us :P )

Wendy-eMoms Wendy is such a huge inspiration to Mums (and Dads) She  makes me think about how much anyone can achieve, no matter the odds if they are determined and work hard. Not to mention all the other great knowledge she shares.

Ponn-Empower Women now I think Ponn gets me thinking abit too much :P She is a great inspiration, and has really got me thinking about networking.

Karen-Cumbling Walls I could not list all the things this blog has made me think and feel in the months that I have been following it and how much Karen’s words and stories have helped within my family.

Olive-The Life of Riley  If Olive can “Blob” at 107, any woman can blog!

 

Rage Playlist Competition

I have been tagged by Meg for the Rage playlist competition meme (thought I would answer it over here ;) ) This is really tough. There aren’t too many songs that I remember much past when they stop playing them on the radio/TV, but I’ll give it a crack.

In no real order, just numbered to save me counting.

  1. Nirvana-Come as you are..though it could have been any of them.
  2. Cold Chisel – Khe San
  3. Pink Flyod-Another Brick in the Wall
  4. The Doors- Light my fire (hard to pick one)
  5. Green Day-Jesus of Suburbia
  6. Violent Femmes- Blister in the sun
  7. Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
  8. Pearl Jam- Last Kiss
  9. Madonna-Like a Virgin
  10. Red Hot Chili Peppers-Under the bridge
  11. Pink- Stupid Girls (if we were being strict about the video thing, this would have to be #1)
  12. Gwen Stefani- The Sweet Escape
  13. Beyonce- Irreplaceable
  14. James Blunt- Goodbye My Lover
  15. Wolfmother- Woman
  16. Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails Red Wine
  17. Eminem-Mockingbird
  18. My Chemical Romance- Welcome to the Black Parade
  19. Fall Out Boy – This Is Not A Scene
  20. Avril Lavigne-Girlfriend.. have to include this one the kids LOVE it, and they are more entertaining that any music video when they are jumping around and singing like idiots :lol:

I was tempted to add some Carpenters or maybe the crazy frog in there…but resisted the urge.

Thanks Meg, best work out the grey matter has had all week.

As for tagging..EVERYONE (such a cop out)