Baked Potato Soup

Ingredients:

• 3 bacon strips
• about a 1/8 tsp onion salt (you can use chopped onions instead, if you'd like - as many as you'd like.  I am not an onion fan.)
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil  
• pinch red pepper flakes
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 2 cans Swanson's chicken broth (We use the all natural kind with no msg)
• Red potatoes, diced (add as many as you'd like. We like ours with lots of potato.)
• 1 cup whipping cream
• Tabasco to taste (We do about 4-5 drops)
• Shredded Cheddar cheese

Preparation:

1. In a large saucepan, cook bacon until crisp. Set bacon aside and keep the bacon drippings in the pan.
2. Saute onion salt and garlic in the drippings until tender. Stir in flour, salt, basil and pepper; mix well.
3. Gradually add broth. Bring to boil; boil and stir for 2 minutes. 
4. Add the potatoes to the pot and boil them for about 12 minutes.
5. Add cream and Tabasco to the pot and stir to mix.
6. Serve;  Garnish with bacon and cheese.

fettuccine alfredo with bacon

Ingredients:

• 16 oz linguine
• 3 slices bacon
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 1 T flour
• 1 cup 2% milk
• 2/3 cup shredded parmesan cheese
• 1/2 tsp salt
• parsley (to garnish)
• black pepper (to garnish)

Preparation:

1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain in a colander over a bowl, reserving 1/4 cup cooking liquid.
2. While pasta cooks, cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 4 minutes or until crisp, stirring occasionally. Remove bacon from pan, reserving drippings.
3. Add garlic to drippings in pan; sauté 1 minute, stirring constantly. Sprinkle flour over garlic; cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly; cook 2 minutes or until bubbly and slightly thick, stirring constantly.
4. Reduce heat to low. Gradually add cheese, stirring until cheese melts.
5. Stir in salt and reserved 1/4 cup cooking liquid.
6. Add hot pasta to pan; toss well to combine.
7. Dish up, and sprinkle with bacon, parsley, and pepper.

modified from Cooking Light.

Taco Pizza

Ingredients

• 1 ready made pizza crust (We used Boboli)
• 1 lb ground beef
• taco seasoning (We use Ortega)
• lettuce
• tomato, chopped
• cheddar cheese (about 3 cups, shredded)
• tortilla chips
• salsa

Preparation

1. Heat oven to temperature directed on package.
2. Cook meat with taco seasoning.  
3. Spread salsa over the crust.
4. Spoon beef mixture onto pizza crust.  Top with cheese.
5. Bake as directed on the pizza crust package or until crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
6. Top with lettuce and tomato.
7. Crush tortilla chips and sprinkle on top.
8. Drizzle with salsa.

Philly Cheesesteak Pizza

Ingredients:
-pizza dough
-steak (however much you like)
-green pepper (1 or 2, depending on how you like it)
-sweet onion (however much you like.  I'm not a big onion fan, so we maybe use a quarter of 1)
-mozzarella cheese (about a pack and a half)
-Worcestershire sauce (2 T)
-Italian seasoning (1/4 tsp.)
-Classico alfredo sauce (maybe 1/4 cup?)

Directions:

1. Prepare pizza dough.
2. Cook steak and cut into small pieces.
3. Marinate steak in Worcestershire sauce and Italian seasoning for about 15 minutes, turning once.
4. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
5. Cook peppers and onion in a little vegetable oil.
6. Add steak to the pepper and onion mixture.
7. Spread the dough evenly onto a pizza pan.
8. Spread alfredo sauce over pizza dough.
9. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the sauce to cover.
10. Spread steak, pepper and onion mixture over the cheese.
11. Sprinkle with some more cheese.
12. Bake at 400 degrees for 18-20 minutes.