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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 [...]
Stove Top Mini Meat Loaves / Meatloaf
January 21, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment
Meatloaf is good, but mini meat loaves are better. You can control portions, cook it faster, and easily pack up leftovers for lunches! One option is to mix up your favorite meatloaf mix, if you have one, and bake in a loaf pan, then slice and serve. You might also take that same mix and [...]
Simple is Good: Steak with Seasoned Pepper and Garlic Salt
January 6, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment
Sprinkle some seasoned pepper and garlic salt on a steak and let it sit for a bit while you do the rest of dinner (Brussels Sprouts and Red Potatoes along with a green salad here). Preheat the grill and pour a small dab of olive oil on the steaks and rub around. Cook one minute, [...]
Carne Asada Burritos
December 1, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment
I went looking for some skirt steak but had to settle for this package of thinly sliced beef round tip steak cap, which I think I’ve used once before in a similar situation. I marinated it just for an hour in a recipe loosely based upon this one from Vanilla Latte. I hardly measured but [...]
Beef Tostado Recipe with Fixings
November 10, 2009 by Ellen · 3 Comments
My youngest has a new friend spending the night and asked for tostados for dinner, a perfect request since we had a perfect ripe avocado. I pulled some ground turkey from the freezer and cooked it up with some taco seasonings. A while back I bought a container of taco seasoning but I actually prefer [...]
Carne Asada Soft Tacos with Avocado Pico del Gallo
October 29, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment
This is a good recipe from the November issue of Cooking Light magazine, (one year for $15 at Amazon). I couldn’t find the skirt steak they recommended but used a thinly sliced package of beef round tips I saw on sale instead. The steak came out a bit “limey” if you ate it plain, but [...]
Meatball Sandwich Recipe: Use Up Those Leftover Meatballs!
October 15, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment
In truth, there’s hardly a recipe for a meatball sandwich. At its simplest, you take a French or hoagie roll, put a few meatballs on it, ladle some spaghetti sauce on it and eat. If you want to get a bit fancier, you’d use your own homemade meatballs. My favorite recipe uses ground pork and [...]
Stuffed Green Peppers, No Rice
September 22, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment
I got this recipe from my sister. Unlike most stuffed green pepper recipes, it has no rice. I personally think I would like this a bit better with some cooked rice added, but it was good. My daughter was aghast at the idea of eating astuffed green pepper, so I used the same meat mix [...]
I have had a food blog since 2001, back when there were just a few hundred! I like to explore new recipes, including new cuisines. My recipes are usually not gourmet but now and then may be. In addition to cooking, I play fiddle and guitar, garden and read a lot. [