Archive for the 'Beef' Category

Sweet and Sour Pot Roast

This pot roast recipe is so good!  I’ve made quite a few pot roast recipes and they all seem to be missing something, but the sweetness from the cranberry sauce adds that missing element.  Everyone enjoyed this dinner, and it will certainly become a favorite at our house.  Definitely company worthy too! Recipe from Hot [...]

“Best” Ever Spaghetti Sauce

It seems we’ve been kind of in a funk lately.  Not much new cooking going on, but that all changed tonight!  -s got an awesome new cookbook for Christmas called The Kansas City Barbeque Society Cookbook, and when I browsed through the book a number of recipes popped out at me.  So tonight -s made [...]

Grilled Polenta with Spicy Steak

This dish is fantastic!  Definitely tastes like something you would get at a restaurant.  The best part…it’s quick and easy.  Certainly company worthy. Recipe is adapted from a recipe in the June 2010 issue of Cooking Light. Ingredients: 3 tsp. olive oil 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. ground cumin 1 1/2 tsp. ground [...]

Grandma’s Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Oh man do these meatballs remind me of dinners at Grandma Clark’s!  Good memories!!  I call these meatballs sweet and sour, because that’s what it reminds me of.  I’ve adapted the sauce recipe a bit more to my liking as I like a sauce with bold flavors. You can serve these meatballs over rice or [...]

Curried Beef

This crock pot dinner is really tasty, and the leftovers were delicious too.  The recipe comes from the March 2009 issue of Cooking Light. I thought the original recipe called for way too much salt, so I didn’t add the salt, other than to season the beef prior to searing it, and boy am I [...]

Crock Pot Turkey Chili

This chili is so delicious.  It can be made completely on the stove or once assembled it can be simmered away in the crock pot.  I used my crock pot, and this chili is awesome.  It is thick and hearty and delicious.  I used ground turkey, but you could certainly use ground chicken or beef. [...]

Quick Reuben Sandwiches

Here’s another really tasty recipe for quick Reuben sandwiches.  To me what makes this sandwich is the homemade thousand islandish dressing.  It’s easy, so don’t skip that step. Thousand Island Dressing Ingredients: 1 c. mayo 1 c. ketchup 1/2 c. sweet pickle relish (I only had hot dog relish which is a mix of mustard [...]

Quick Steak Taco Dinner

Here’s a tasty menu for a quick weeknight dinner.  Top tacos with Mango Salsa and serve with Los Tios Mexican Rice. Ingredients: 1 flank steak lime juice to marinate salt pepper garlic powder onion powder ground ginger Directions: Combine all ingredients in a dish or zip top bag and marinate for 30 minutes.  Grill until [...]

Cook Off Chili

This chili is solid.  I found the recipe and the always tasty fashionably foodie.  You can cook on the stove-top or in the crock.  It was also really good the next day on a taco salad with creamy jalapeno dressing. Ingredients: 4 cans kidney beans, undrained (I used 2 cans) or 1 pound dried kidney [...]

Beef BBQ Sandwiches with Slaw

Here’s another excellent BBQ beef sandwich cooked in the crockpot.  The recipe is from Taste of Home. Ingredients: 1 3 lb. boneless chuck roast 1 c. BBQ sauce 1/2 c. apricot preserves 1/3 c. chopped green or red pepper 1 small onion, chopped 1 TBSP dijon mustard 2 tsp. brown sugar Cole slaw Buns Directions: [...]




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