Recipes

Another recipe from good ol’ Betty Crocker. I found this recipe in the Betty Crocker Bisquick cookbook. I used lots of onion and added some extra cheese. It turned out really well if I do say so myself. This is my husband’s plate. I grabbed it from his hands and said “wait! I want to take a picture of that!”

1 pound ground beef
1 large onion, chopped (1 cup)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese (4 ounces)
1/2 cup Original Bisquick
1 cup milk
2 eggs

1. HEAT oven to 400 degrees. Grease pie plate, 9×1 1/4 inches. Cook beef and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown, drain. Spread in pie plate.

2. STIR remaining ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.

3. BAKE about 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Makes 6 servings.

High Altitude (3500 to 6500 feet): Bake 30 to 35 minutes.

We usually spend a couple hundred dollars buying meat when we go to the butcher shop but sooner or later the freezer starts looking bare again. At the moment all I have left is 2 frozen cut-up chickens, 1 pound of ground chuck, 1 pound of “stew meat” (cubed chuck roast) and a package of bacon.

I don’t feel like thawing out a chicken (too late in the day anyway) and I”m tired of ground beef (we just had spaghetti the other night) and I don’t feel like making beef stew either. We also have several Totino’s Party Pizzas that we keep on hand for an emergency. An example of an emergency is when nobody feels like cooking but everyone feels like eating. I asked my husband if he wanted “something from ground beef, a little pizza or a concoction made from stew meat”. He had a funny look on his face, but always the adventurer he said “a stew meat concoction”.

So this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to make a round steak recipe but use stew meat instead. Here is the recipe straight from the 1972 Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. They don’t make cookbooks like this anymore and that’s a fact. I bought the Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition for my daughter-in-law a few Christmas’s ago. It is a good cookbook, but nothing can take the place of my old fashioned one.

This is the recipe I’ll be using: Read the rest of this entry »

I know I recently mentioned that I am going to begin to eat a healthier diet, but I have the ingredients on hand for this pie so I’m going to make it today… I’ll start eating healthier tomorrow, yeah, that’s what I’ll do. I’ll start tomorrow…

Ingredients:
1 graham cracker crust
3-4 ounces key lime juice (I use 4 ounces)
14 ounces condensed milk
8 ounces non-dairy topping, thawed

Preparation:
Mix the key lime juice and the condensed milk together using a hand mixer or wire whisk.
Blend in the non-dairy topping and pour into the graham cracker crust.
Refrigerate for at least one hour and there you have it.