Category: Beef

  • Quick Beef and Rice

    Quick Beef and Rice

    This Quick Beef and Rice is one of the easiest, quickest kid-friendly recipes around. It’s good easy comfort food and goes together quickly. Serve with some vegetables on the side,  cooked carrots or a bowl of vegetable soup. If you don’t have onion soup mix, you can substitute an onion and some beef bouillon or broth. If…

  • Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak

    Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak

    I love trying out new marinades. Good beef is good without a marinade but can be great with a good marinade! This Soy Sauce and Honey Marinade for Steak is very good with tri-tip and flank steak, my usual beef cuts.

  • Fastest Way to Shred Beef

    Fastest Way to Shred Beef

    This is the fastest way yet I’ve found to shred beef for enchiladas, tacos and so forth.  I had some leftover pot roast and decided to make beef enchiladas. Usually I would use two forks to pull the beef apart into shreds or I would get lazy and just chop it up. But I do…

  • Beef, Broccoli & Peppers Stir Fry

    Beef, Broccoli & Peppers Stir Fry

    I like a good stir fry for using up odds and ends of vegetables.  In this case, I didn’t really have enough broccoli to make just a broccoli and beef stir fry, which was what I initially thought of cooking, but I added in some sliced red and yellow peppers and there was plenty.  I…

  • Salisbury Steak aka Hamburger Steak with Onion Gravy

    Salisbury Steak aka Hamburger Steak with Onion Gravy

    Ground beef mixed with egg, bread crumbs and seasonings, cooked with onions and gravy: pure comfort food on a cold winter night!  I like to serve them with mashed potatoes and peas. Does anyone know where the name Salisbury Steak comes from? My cynical side thinks it was a marketing ploy from the early days…