Sausage and Wild Rice Soup

Ingredients
8 breakfast sausages link
2 cups of wild rice prepared
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
2 1/2 stalks of celery
1 medium onion
water

Places and Price

1. breakfast sausages link--this was in our freezer and has been for at least 4 months, but originally we bought it from Swann's Home Delivery 32 sausages for approximately $7.75. These sausages hardly have any grease at all, their very high quality, as well as you just saved gas money because you had it delivered to your home.
2. wild rice--food storage
   
3. cream of mushroom and chicken soup--Aldis for $.49 a can
4. celery--Aldis for $1.69
5. onion---in out cupboard

Recipe
1. cut up onion and celery into small bite size
2. cook sausages until brown in a medium pan---you will be using this pan for the whole recipe
3. While the sausages are cooking empty both cans of soup, put the soup on the side for use later
4. fill both cans up with water--don't throw away the cans yet, they will be used later
5. After the sausages are brown add the water, onion and celery to the pan. Allow the onion and celery to cook until the onions are translucent.
6. After the onion and celery are finished cooking, drain them and the meat from the liquid, but keep the liquid on the side to be used in the soup later
7. place the liquid from step 6 into the cans that the soup came in. Use more water to completely fill up each can.
8. Place the water into the same pan that you've been cooking in. Bring to a boil. Add the soups into the water and whisk briskly until smooth looking---make sure you do not boil the soup, remember this is cream soup.
9. After the soup is smooth looking place the prepared wild rice, meat, celery and onions into the soup. Cook until every thing is nice and hot.

Personal Note: I would not recommend substituting other rice for the wild rice. Wild rice has a very distinctive textured and taste that fits well in this soup.

Ranch Pasta Salad

Ingredients
1/4 cup dried onion
1/8 cup dried carrots
3/4 cup of frozen peas
1 1/2 cups of ranch dressing
1/2 cup celery
3/4 box of spiral pasta
salt and black pepper to taste

Places
dried onion and dried carrots were in our food storage (LDS Bishops store house)
frozen peas were in our food storage (freezer)
ranch dressing was in our food storage
celery $1.69 (Aldis)
Pasta food storage

Recipe
1. Fill a medium pot with cold water and place over high heat
2. Once the water is boiling place all dry ingredients in the pot
3. Cook time for ingredients is based on cooking time on the pasta box
4. While the dry ingredients are cooking place frozen peas in the microwave and thaw them. After they are thawed drain and put on the side to be used later.
5. Cut the celery into small bite size and put on the side to be used later
6. After pasta mix is cooked drained, place in a bowl.
7. Combine the peas, pasta mix, celery and ranch dressing, and mix well. Add salt and black pepper to taste.
8. Place pasta salad in the refrigerator for approximately 1 hour to chill

Note: After pasta has sat in the refrigerator for some time, it soaks up the dressing, so you may want to add more dressing when you take it out before serving...be careful not to put too much dressing in.

Engish Muffin Pizzas

This is a recipe that my mom and I used to use when I was growing up. Somethings are difficult to give up, specially if they are so yummy

Items
4 Thomas English Multi-Grain Muffins
2 cup Spaghetti sauce (or pizza sauce)
1-2 cup Cheese (this depends how much cheese you like)
1 cup left over seasoned Meat (hamburger, peperoni, whatever you have around)
1/4 small onion (optional)

Place and Prices
Thomas English Multi-Grain Muffins
When we went shopping there was a special 3 for $3--so we stocked up and put some in the freezer and on this particular day if you bought at least $5 you got your choose of one of the following free items; loaf of bread, more English muffins (Wonder Bread Shop---they always have cheap bread here)
Spaghetti sauce
$0.99 a jar (Aldis)
Cheese
2 for $5 (Quality)---I usually don't buy cheese unless it's on sale
Meat
in our freezer from our family friends the Bunker's who are Free Range Farmers

Recipe
1. preheat oven at 350 degrees
2. cut onion and place on the side to be used later
3. cut English Muffins and place them on an ungreased pan in the oven at 350 degrees until lightly toasted
4. Prepare the muffins on the same pan that you toasted them on.
5. Layer the toasted muffins with sauce, cheese, meat and onion.
6. Place in pan in the over (350 degrees) and cook pizzas until the cheese looks melted

Personal Note: I think that this will easily become one our family favorites