Green Beans

All the joys of green beans:

Here are two quick ways to prep green beans:

1. Minnesota hot-dish style (a favorite in my family, even though they're from Iowa):

Prep Time: 10 min (plus 30 min baking)
Feeds: 6-8

Ingredients:
1 can (10 ¾ oz) Campell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup
4 cups cooked cut green beans OR 2 (16 oz) cans French cut green beans
1 cup French’s French Fried Onions

Preparation:
Mix soup with beans in a casserole dish
Bake at 350 for 25 min or until hot
Add French Fried Onions over top and serve

2. D-style (a J-Funk favorite)

Ingredients:
A bag full of fresh green beans (kale is really good this way too)
Cooking oil (olive oil works too)
Hot chili sauce (we get ours from an Asian grocery store because we like it HOT)
OR hot peppers
(optional) garlic, salt and pepper

Preparation:
Wash green beans, pluck off stems, throw in pan with oil and fry. Once they start to look a little brown, service or add any of the following for added flavor: hot chili sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, and/or hot peppers.

Salmon Neapolitan

Salmon Neapolitan

This was my staple in college. It’s fast, and salmon is supposed to be good brain food. Also, all the ingredients are non-parishable or can be frozen (salmon is fine in the freezer for a good while) so it’s a good back-up meal when better things keep you from the grocery store. If you don’t like salmon, replace with your meat of choice (chicken is good). Bonus: it’s not too complicated either, you just need a big pan.

Prep time: 20 minutes
Feeds: 2-4 people, depending on how much salmon you use

Ingredients:

1 fillet of salmon (or enough fillets to feed all the
people you're making it for)
4 tbs olive oil
1 8 oz can of tomato sauce
1 6 oz can of tomato paste
1/2 cup water
2 tbs Oregano
2 cloves of garlic
1 tbs thyme
Green pepper, or some other vegetable
Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

Saute the salmon with 2 tbs of olive oil on
medium-high heat until done. Remove the salmon from
pan and put aside.

Put the remaining ingredients in the pan and cook on
medium heat until the sauce simmers. Then reduce the
sauce to medium-low heat and let simmer for 5 minutes.

Place the salmon on a plate and cover with sauce

Fish!