ground beef

Grind Your Own Meat: My First Home-Ground Beef for Hamburgers

June 28, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Thanks to KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers, which I’ve rarely, if ever, used before, I ground up a two-pound blade steak last night for hamburgers. (Froze 1 pound for later use.) You have to cut the meat up into 1″ cubes or long thinner strips. This is probably a bit easier to [...]

Burgers with Cilantro Pesto and Sweet Jalapeno Sauce

April 24, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

Our local farmers’ market has a stall from Bolani’s and they are very generous with the samples. And it works!  Oh my, the cilantro pesto had me from the first bite and the jalapeno sauce was the same.  Once I brought it home, the possibilities have been intriguing. Let’s take your basic barbecued hamburger. Top [...]

Ground Beef Wellington from Jamie Oliver

April 19, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

Looking for a Sunday dinner the other afternoon and saw this and remembered I had some puff pastry in the freezer. Ground beef wellington. The pictures were enticing and hit sounded like good Sunday comfort food. I would allow 1 1/2 to 2 hours for this, as it needs to bake an hour. I was [...]

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce by Katie Lee Joel

March 29, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I hesitated to try this but yet was intrigued somehow. I cut the recipe mostly in half as I was just looking to feed two  of us plus provide a lunch or two. My daughter packs a lunch for school every day and LOVES leftover spaghetti and sauce. Recently a neighbor had shown her his [...]

Bierocks (aka Runzas): Beef and Cabbage Stuffed in Bread

March 1, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

I was thumbing through some old magazines before donating them to the library and came across this recipe for bierocks in an old Cooking Light magazine, apparently something the Russian Mennonites brought over (the recipe, not the magazine!)  When I was growing up, we seldom ate out or picked up takeout, but a great little [...]

Desperate for Gyros? A Ground Beef Substitute

February 22, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

These are poor-man’s gyros, made from ground beef and not spit roasted and d thinly sliced off the rotating hunk o’ meat…but they’re darned good in a pinch!  They are in no way authentic Greek as far as I know. We used to only get gyros once a year, at the county fair. Now we [...]

Our Current Favorite Hamburgers with Bacon and Fried Onions

February 21, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

These hamburgers have crushed plain crackers in them. I’d bought lots of crackers for the holidays and am using them up in burgers these days rather than my usual bread crumbs. I think they add a nice flavor.  I’ve used water crackers and cream crackers. I grew up with my mom mixing up hamburger similar [...]

Bacon Bit Burgers with Steak House Fried Onions and Spinach Salad

February 7, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Take some ground beef and mix with chopped cooked bacon, cooked onions, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce, then top with fried onions and cheese. My twist: rather than just use buns, I turned this into a patty melt kinda deal with some sliced French bread I had leftover from a small dinner party. Oh my! [...]

Cheeseburger Soup – Easy and Filling

February 3, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This is classic comfort food around here. As with most soups, the recipe is flexible. You can use a little more or less ground beef, a little more or less carrots, celery or potatoes, and so forth. If you don’t have or don’t want to use a can of cream of mushroom soup, make up [...]

Freezing Ground Beef

January 29, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Ground beef is one of the things I like to keep a few packages of in the freezer. A few years ago I bought a FoodSaver vacuum sealer and it definitely makes a difference in terms of eliminating freezer burn on meat, since the air cannot get to the meat. (As a note, freezer burn [...]

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