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…
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Goulash or Slumgullion
There are lots of names for similar dishes and I think this dish is probably the inspiration for the old Hamburger Helper. Ground beef, macaroni, tomato sauce and cheese. I like to add kidney beans and peas, too, and some Worcestershire sauce. I used a can of cream of mushroom soup but you really just…
Stuffed Peppers in a Philly Cheesesteak Style
We love Philly cheese steak sandwiches around here. My daughter saw a Philly cheese steak style stuffed pepper that used sliced roast beef and thought it sounded good. I like a more traditional stuffed pepper with ground beef though so went back to my old favorite recipe and tweaked it a little for her, using…
Buttermilk Honey Salad Dressing Recipe
My kids like Hamburger Helper. I’ve rarely cooked it for dinner, but when they were younger I would use it on the rare babysitter nights and then later on the rare “on your own” nights once they were old enough to cook safely. I did play around with some hamburger helper-like mixes for a while…
Hamburgers from Jamie Oliver
The hamburger recipe from Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals is actually pretty darn close to my mom’s old recipe. He uses cream crackers crumbled up instead of bread crumbs and leaves out the Worcestershire, ketchup and horseradish. I really like the addition of the fresh parsley but if I…