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Spiced Up Green Bean Casserole

You can use any green bean casserole recipe and finish it with with Deanos Jalapenos Ranch flavored chips.

Here is a traditional Green bean casserole. Paula Deen Has a really good recipe that we’ve made a few adjustments to. While sautéing the onions and mushrooms we add a diced jalapeno. At the end of the recipe, after you have added the cheese cover liberally with Deanos Jalapeno Ranch flavored chips and finish according to the directions. This will definitely be the talk of the table

 

Ingredients

• 1/3 stick butter
• 1/2 cup diced onions
• 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
• 2 cups sliced green beans
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (2.8-ounce) can French-fried onion rings
• Pinch House Seasoning, recipe follows
• 1 cup grated Cheddar

 

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Melt the butter in a large skillet. Saute the onions and mushrooms in the butter. Boil green beans in chicken broth for 10 minutes and drain. Add the green beans, mushroom soup, onion rings, and House Seasoning, to taste, to the onion mixture. Stir well. Pour into a greased 1 1/2-quart baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes, then top the casserole with the Cheddar and bake for 10 minutes longer, or until the casserole is hot and cheese is melted.

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South Western Sheppard’s Pie

This is a favorite at our Restaurant, The Cactus Café in Stowe Vermont. We’ve adapted this recipe by using some items you can buy in the store in order to save time. Such as frozen corn instead of cooking fresh corn and cutting it off the cob or the beef gravy.

 

South Western Sheppard’s Pie:

 

Ingredients:

• 1-2 pounds of ground beef, you can substitute ground turkey
• 1 onion. diced
• 2 cloves of garlic, diced
• 10-15 mushrooms, sliced
• Beef gravy, homemade or jar or from packet
• 1 table spoon chipotle peppers in adobo’s sauce, diced
• pound bag of frozen corn or fresh cooked and cut off the cob, about 8 ears
• 4 potatoes diced
• 1 table spoon butter
• ¼ cup milk
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Shredded cheddar

 

Directions:
Cook ground beef and remove from pan. Leave fat from beef in to sauté the onions, garlic and mushrooms. Drain off any excess fat (or make homemade gravy with that). Combine beef and onion mixture with gravy and chipotle’s, mix well.

Boil a large pot of water and add potatoes. Cook until tender and mash with butter and milk. Salt and pepper to taste Cover to keep warm.
In a casserole dish with non stick spray add beef mixture then layer corn and mashed potatoes in that order top with cheddar cheese and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes  add Cheddar cheese and Deanos Jalapenos Ranch flavored chips and put back in oven until cheese is melted.

At the Cactus Café our South Western Sheppard’s pie is made from scratch and we also serve it in a fried flour tortilla bowl with fresh  greens tossed in olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper around the base.

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The Mary Fish-Dish

This recipe comes from one of our many jalapeno chip loving fans. We've been so busy making jalapeno chips we haven't had a chance to try it out for ourselves yet. Have you had the chance? If you have made this tasty dish send us an email and let us know how it turned out.

 

Ingredients:

• 1 Tilapia or other similar thinly sliced frozen fish fillet
• 6-12 Pre-cooked and frozen shrimp. Small frozen bay scallops can be substituted or you can use both
• 4 Thickly sliced mushrooms
• 1/4-1/2 Cup frozen peas
• Italian dressing
• Bloody mary mix
• 1 Teaspoon of vodka
• A handful of Deano's Cheddar Jalapeno Chips
• 1 or 2 Teaspoons of flour or corn starch can be added if a thicker sauce is desired.
• Vegetarians can substitute carrots sliced in half and/or 1/2” sliced potatoes instead of seafood.

 

Directions:

Put frozen fish fillet at the bottom of small baking dish just big enough for the fish to fit in. Place peas and mushrooms all around but not on top of fish. Pour in equal amounts of Italian dressing, bloody mary mix and 1 or more teaspoons of vodka over the all the ingredients until everything is just barely submerged. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes basting fish and mixing around ingredients halfway through to make sure nothing gets dried out. Pull fish out after 20 minutes, re-baste (flip fish if desired) and submerge frozen shrimp/scallops in the sauce around the fillet, cook for another 10-15 minutes. Throw as many of Deano's Cheddar Jalapeno Chips as you dare on top just before serving. Oven temp/time can be adjusted since I cook mine in a New Wave Turbo Oven which I highly recommend everyone own.

 

Serves one, double or triple if you have any friends.

Peace,