Cook's Challenge!

I can't come up with a thing at the moment but you've got me thinking.

Joyous holidays to you and those you love.

I'd prepare the tomato soup and add the noddles. I'd bake the pinto beans with some brown sugar and top with some strips of bacon (extra ingredients #1 and #2). I'd wrap the water chestnuts with a strip of bacon and top with a brown sugar and ketchup sauce (extra ingredient #3) and bake at the same time. And I'd eat the hard boiled eggs on the side plain. A little more complicated than my past efforts...and a full meal to boot!

Extra ingredients would be fresh spinach leaves, bacon and chili seasoning.

Fry the bacon crisp. Reserve the grease, and keep it warm.

Tear the spinach into bite sized pieces and place in a bowl along with the crumbled bacon, sliced water chestnuts and sliced boiled egg. Salt and pepper according to taste.

Prepare the egg noodles and beans according to package directions. When done, mix with the tomato soup and add chili seasoning to taste to make a Spicy Bean and Noodle Soup.

Drizzle the bacon grease over the spinach salad to wilt the spinach. Serve the soup and salad immediately.

Same to you, MBM!

Rob! Way to go. I thought this was my most difficult one yet. I haven't even come up with anything.

I love it, Tina. I would eat that right up!

ahh a little difficult with two "soups" if you consider the beans soup.

tomato soup with noodles, beans with water chestnuts, and I'd make deviled eggs adding mayo, mustard, and relish.... that aways the kids would have two "soups" to choose from and have deviled eggs on he side.

Yuck though. lol

interesting combination that I have no clue as to what to make with those ingredients

Man, all I know is that I'm not near as creative as I once thought I was....
I'll just have to make myself a hard boiled egg sandwich and stare at the rest of those ingredients for a bit while I eat it.

LOL, Paula! Thanks for playing anyway :)

Thanks anyway, Samantha.

Good start, John.

kidney beans, chili seasoning and soy sauce extra ingredients

would comine the beans tomato soup and chili seasoning to make chili then would cook noodles as specified, add water chestnuts cooking till tender and add soy sauce and eggs to it to make a soy based noodle dish

I would eat that, Kimber!

If I had hard boiled eggs and beans together at lunch, it would be a musical evening around here.

w00t!

Or would that be, t00t!

Sausage, Bean and Tomato Pasta with Egg Salad Crostini

Extras: baguette, pork sausage, mayo

Cook sausage, beans and tomato soup a couple hours, til nice and thickened. Serve over cooked noodles.

Meanwhile, mix eggs, mayo and water chestnuts. Slice baguette and broil. Serve with egg salad mixture.

1. Hardboiled Eggs
2. Tomato Soup
3. Pinto Beans
4. Water chestnuts
5. Wide egg noodles
6. Party size rye bread with seeds
7.Confectioners Sugar
8. Chocolate almond bars
Water
Salt
Pepper
Fat--Peanut oil

***Menu***
Tomato Noodle Soup
Tea Sandwiches
Chocolate ribbon cookies

Directions

***Tomato Noodle Soup***
Undercook noodles slightly and add to prepared tomato soup just before serving

***Tea Sandwhiches
1)Make egg salad with eggs, salt, pepper.
Make little sandwiches

2) Make little veggie burgers from mashed pintos, tomato soup, minced roasted chestnuts, peanut oil, pepper, and salt if needed. Pan fry in peanut oil.
Make little sandwiches

***Chocolate Ribbon Cookies***
Cook noodles to just underdone
Drain well
Deep fat fry and drain
Sprinkle noodles with sugar.
Melt chocolate bars.
Fish out almonds and chop
Drizzle sugared noodles with chocolate and sprinkle with almonds.

Another nice one, Liz. Did you get my email?

1. Hardboiled Eggs
2. Tomato Soup
3. Pinto Beans
4. Water chestnuts
5. Wide egg noodles
6. Celery
7. Instant minced onion

Shell and slice the eggs. Slice the water chestnuts.
Cook the noodles according to package directions, drain but don't rinse, and toss with a little oil to keep them from sticking together.
Slice the celery and saute lightly in a little oil, just until tender-crisp. Reconstitute the minced onion in water and toss with the celery. Add a bit of salt.
Cook the pinto beans in a lot of salted water and drain. Or use canned pintos, rinsed and drained. Mix the pinto beans with the sliced water chestnuts and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Oil a casserole dish and layer the ingredients in this order: Noodles, celery mixture, bean mixture, sliced eggs.

Mix the tomato soup with enough water till it's the consistency of white sauce and pour over the top of the casserole.

Bake uncovered at 350 till heated through. The sauce should be bubbly.

(This is an adaptation of another dish that I make using hamburger and rice instead of the noodles and beans.)

My first reaction to this challenge was that it was an absolutely horrible combination of ingredients and sounded like desperation rations after the blizzard of the century followed by landslides or something--or maybe a civil war. Then I realized that except for the tomato soup, I could do something decent with it (I just can't eat the tomatoes and live to tell about it, and am bemused by the number of these challenges that have tomatoes on the list.)

Here's what I'll serve, having no first course myself.

2. tomato soup

1. hardboiled eggs
3. pinto beans
4. water chestnuts
5. wide egg noodles

bag of mixed salad greens
vinaigrette
Maytag blue cheese


You also get to use water, salt and pepper, oil and up to three other ingredients.


Serve the tomato soup as a first course,

The second course is a salade composee platter.

Soak pinto beans ovenight then simmer gently for 2 hours. Drain. Meanwhile, cook noodles and drain. Toss beans and noodles with vinaigrette to taste and spread on a deep platter.

Slice water chestnuts thinly and toss with crumbled blue cheese and salad greens then toss with additional vinaigrette. Heap on bed of needles and beans.

Slice several eggs into wedges and arrange prettily over the greens mixture.