Category: Beef
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Cheap and Easy Meat Sauce and Pasta
We had another family over for dinner this weekend and I decided to make just an easy meat sauce for dinner rather than cooking anything too fancy. I got the sauce started about an hour before they arrived, made up a salad, and got some garlic bread ready to pop under the broiler. This left…
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Meat Pies or Cornish Pasties
I don’t claim to be an expert on pasties or anything else. In our house we call these Meat Pies. In the British cookbook I got the basic recipe from they’re called Cornish Pasties. It’s a great way to stretch a piece of beef. You can make these using regular pie crust dough or the…
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Fried Apples
This is one of my cheater meals. Heating up kielbasa or some other precooked sausage, whether grilled or pan-fried, hardly seems to count as cooking to me. And I know they’re not healthy, but they do taste good! Some nights, a treat is in order and an easy dinner is on the menu. Tonight with…
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Ground Beef and Spinach: San Francisco Joe’s Special Recipe
This is one of those recipes I’ve seen off and on for years, typically referenced by a nod to a San Francisco restaurant. Somehow I’ve only now just gotten around to trying it. I went to Costco today. My main client’s staff was at an off-site meeting so I figured this was a good day…
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Flank Steak Marinade with Worcestershire Sauce and Garlic
I had another family over for dinner tonight. It was one of those fairly spontaneous things that works out to be perfect! Sometimes, we try to line up dinner and we end up months out and then someone gets sick or something else comes up and we need to postpone and reschedule. My friend had…