Critter Chronicles
Beef
Recipe: Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie
>There are nights when Tony doesn’t get home until late. Nights when I’ve spent too much time playing on Facebook cleaning the house and don’t have more than fifteen minutes in the kitchen to cook away. Those are the nights when I make meals like Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie. This one has been around for … Continue reading
Recipe: Spaghetti and Meatball Stoup
>Back when we lived in the US and actually had access the the Food Network programming, I watched Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals show faithfully. One day I watched her make Spaghetti and Meatball Stoup (“thicker than soup, thinner than stew”) and immediately tried it out that night. I’ve made it regularly since then… because … Continue reading
Recipe: Lasagna Stoup
> Stoup: Thicker than soup, thinner than stew. ~Rachael Ray I’ve written before about how I used to love cooking Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meal Recipes, and how I’ve drifted away from those to some more complicated ones. Well, this recipe is a return to the “dinner’s ready in half an hour” method. Several years … Continue reading
Recipe: Easy Pot Roast with Root Vegetables
>In all the years that I’ve been cooking, I’ve attempted a pot roast about once a year. And every single year I’ve ended up with a hunk of dried out, not-so-flavorful beef. So even though a cut of beef suitable for this meal isn’t very expensive, I hesitate to try it often for fear of … Continue reading
Recipe: Slow Cooker Pepper Steak
>Last week I was sitting down to do my regular meal planning exercise, and was trying to come up with a system where I’d actually make the meals I was planning. I remembered a trick I read on Simple Mom, where she plans her meals out a month in advance with a system. She designates … Continue reading
Recipe: American Chop Suey
>American Chop Suey is one of those recipes that is incredibly simple to make, and a staple from childhood. Although my mom didn’t make this meal often, I ate it at friend’s houses and saw it often on the menu at the school cafeterias. It’s basically ground beef and pasta in a tomato sauce, which … Continue reading
Recipe: Sliders, aka Mini Burgers
>Last night I threw a party for my son’s second birthday. It was actually less a party, and more a family barbecue, to which we’d invited kids, moms, and dads. A real family event. I’d planned out our menu: hamburgers, hot dogs, broccoli salad, pasta salad, seven layer taco dip with chips, baked beans, a … Continue reading
Recipe: Meatball and Macaroni Soup, or Italian Wedding-ish Soup
>I love soup. I love making it; I love eating it. If I were ever to go into the culinary business, it would be to open a small soup shop. Today I was browsing through many of my cookbooks and magazines in search of some recipes that I hadn’t yet tried, or at least some … Continue reading
Recipe: 15 Minute Microwave Meatloaf
This recipe for meatloaf comes from my mother-in-law, who learned it from her mother. It’s different from more traditional meatloaf recipes in several ways: first, it cooks in the microwave. Second, it’s heavy on the dairy. And third, it’s got a sweeter glaze and overall taste than many more savory recipes. But this is the … Continue reading
Recipe: Steak Marinade
>I have made this marinade several times when I’ve needed something interesting to do with a 1 lb. top round steak that I had waiting to be cooked in the fridge. I found this recipe on allrecipes.com, and after my tinkering came up with this end result. The one time I made this as a … Continue reading
