Sometimes I make meatballs. Sometimes I buy those frozen meatballs. They periodically go on sale for a price that rivals the cost per pound for ground beef. But sometimes I also just make a meat sauce with loose browned ground beef. I vary the canned tomato products depending on what I have around. There’s almost…
Beef
Slow and Easy Pot Roast
Pot roast. What a great Sunday dinner! I just learned, from watching Alton Brown’s show on pot roast, that a 7-blade roast is called that because the bone looks like a 7. I admit to having stayed away from them in the past because I wasn’t sure what they were and thought “7 bones” seemed…
Shepherd’s Pie #1 with Mixed Vegetables
I think British purists might insist that Shepherd’s Pie is made from “lamb mince” rather than ground beef, but here in the States everyone I know thinks of ground beef as the main ingredient to Shepherd’s Pie. In the UK this would be called Cottage Pie I believe. Lamb is not overly popular here I…
Crockpot: Soda and Onion Soup Mix Beef Roast
Cruising the meat aisle on Sunday when I did my shopping, I brought home a beef roast. Can’t remember the exact cut. It was boneless. It was also tied with strings, which I cut off given that I was going to slow cooker it. I’d been wanting to try some variation of the soda-onion soup-crockpot…
Poor Man’s Gyro and Sauce
I used to work in Alameda and the closest deli was a Greek one. Aside from awesome sandwiches and delicious salads of various kinds, they also had gyros. They’d slice that meat off the turning hunk of meat, top it with some tomatoes and onions, and ladle a bit of yogurt sauce on it and…