Archive for the ‘beef’ Category
Vegetable Beef Soup
Here’s a great one stainless steel pot recipe. Soups like vegetable beef soup are great on a cold winter day or as a great starter for a nice multi-course dinner. It fills you up but is relatively low in calories.
Ingredients:
1 package of beef short-ribs
2 quarts of water in a large pan(or beef stock or low salt beef broth, or combination of water and broth)
1 medium onion chopped
1 tsp salt(or 1/2 tsp if desired)
2 cups canned tomatoes
6 sprigs parsley
2 cups chopped cabbage
5-6 carrots sliced
2 cups cut green beans
1 cup diced potatoes
1/2 cup chopped celery
2 cups corn
Chop and slice vegetables with your french cutlery knife from your stainless steel cutlery set. Then cut the meat from the bones with the appropriate cutlery knife (french cutlery or medium carving knife) and brown in the appropriate 4-6 quart stainless steel pot in small amount of oil (olive or corn). If using multi-element stainless steel cookware, including waterless cookware, grease will not be necessary. Add the chopped onion and cook. Add cold water to the ingredients and cook with vegetables and other ingredients for 1-2 hours.Enjoy with a nice red wine and French or Italian bread. You could have smaller portion as the appetizer for a main meal as well.
Beef and Noodles
Here’s a nice recipe for Better Health Cookbook to use with your waterless cookware.
Ingredients:
1 pound lean round steak 1/2″ thick
2 cups fresh sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup celery, chopped
3 green onions chopped
1 clove garlic
2 8 ounce cans no salt added tomato sauce
1/3 or so cup dry white wine
1 TBS lemon juice
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp dried whole oregano
1/4 tsp dried whole rosemary, crushed
1/8 tsp ground pepper
3 cups hot, cooked, unsaletd medium egg noodles
Trim excess fat from steak; cut meat into 1″ pieces. Preheat 10″chef pan or large waterless cookware frying pan over medium high heat. Add steak and brown. Remove meat, reduce heat to medium-low and add mushrooms, celery, green onions, and garlic. Sauté until vegetables are tender. Add meat, tomato sauce and the next 6 ingredients; stir well. Cover and reduce heat to low and simmer 45 minutes or until meat is tender. Remove and discard bay leaf and serve over hot noodles.
Ground Beef Casserole
Here’s a quick easy recipe to be cooked in your stainless steel frying pan or your electric skillet.
Ingredients:
1/2 pound lean ground beef
1 medium green pepper chopped
1 medium onion chopped
1/2 cup celery chopped
1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp pepper
1 1/2 cup tomato juice
1 cup uncooked macaroni
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
1 Serano chile(my choice) chopped
Brown ground beef in large stainless steel frying pan or electric skillet over medium heat. Drain grease and add green pepper, onion, celery and chili. Cook over medium heat 10 minutes. Then add the remaining ingredients combining thoroughly with your kitchen utensils. Cover and reduce heat to low and simmer 40-45 minutes. Enjoy.
Neat Recipe for Mexican Style Hamburgers
I found a great recipe for Mexican Style Hamburgers. I am embellishing it to my taste (I love chilis). Just fire up the barbecue, pull out the barbecue tools and cook away.
Ingredients:
1 medium ripe avocado, seeded, peeled and cut up
1 small tomato, peeled, seeded(optional), and chopped (1/3 cup)
1 TBS chopped onion
1 TBS lemon or better lime (limón verde) juice
1/4 tsp salt or less(half this should be fine)
1/8 tsp garlic power (I would crush a garlic clove)
dash hot pepper sauce or ground red pepper (I would dice serano or jalapeño pepper to taste myself)
1/2 cup crushed corn chips
1/2 cup milk
2 TBS finely chopped onions (or grated)
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 pound lean ground beef
4 tomato slices
4 lettuce leaves
4 hamburger buns, split and toasted on barbecue
Into a medium mixing bowl mash avocado, stir in tomato, the TBS onion, lime juice, pinch salt, garlic, and hot pepper/chili. Cover and chill in refrigerator until serving time.
Meanwhile, i another medium mixing bowl combine crushed corn chips, milk, onion, and Worcestershire sauce. Add meat then mix well and shape into 4 3/4 inch hamburger patties.
Grill on the barbecue for 10-11 minutes turning over half way through grilling time with your spatula from your barbecue tool set. Serve on your lettuce lined toasted buns, topped with tomato, and guacamole. There are 4 servings in this recipe. Enjoy!
Grilling Steaks on the Barbecue
One way to prepare a simple delicious steak is to crush garlic cloves and spread over both sides of the steak and sprinkle pepper and Lowry’s salt as well. Let them sit for 20-30 minutes before cooking on the barbecue.
Put the steak on hot barbecue and grill away. Turn the steaks with your barbecue grill accessories as needed. I like to sear the steaks for 30-60 seconds on each side and then cook as desired. A ball park times for 1 1/2 inch steak is 6-8 minutes on each side, and for well done like my wife Silvia likes 10-12 minutes on each side or even more. Especially for the well done steaks, I would turn every 2-3 minutes with your barbecue tools to keep the steaks from burning on the outside.
Veal Scallapini
I have always loved this recipe of my Mothers. It cooks great in an electric skillet or a stainless steel pan with multi element clad bottom.
Ingredients:
Buy 1 1/2 pounds of pre trimmed thin sliced veal scallapini or buy veal shoulder roast and trim the fat, and gristle and thinly slice it yourself (much more economical and just as delicious).
2 Tbs. butter
2 Tbs shortening or oil
crushed garlic clove
1 sliced medium onion
mushrooms sliced and sauteed with the onion
1 cup of chicken broth
1/2 cup dry white wine (you can drink the rest)
1/4 cup of tomato juice
Preheat the electric skillet or a pan from your stainless steel cookware set to 350 degrees or medium heat. Cover veal pieces with salt, pepper and flour. Suatee the garlic, onion and mushrooms in the skillet in oil, remove from skillet and add veal, browning on both sides. Add mushrooms, chicken broth, wine, and tomato juice. Reduce heat of the skillet to simmer. Cover and cook 30 minutes. Add more chicken broth if necessary sh you have a nice gravy. Add flour to thicken sauce if necessary. Serve with rice or small potatoes. Of course with a nice salad and dry white wine. Enjoy
Hawaiian Hamburger Recipe
Here’s a nice alternative to regular hamburgers.
Ingredients:
2 pounds ground chuck or 15% fat hamburger(ground sirloin good too)
1 medium onion grated finely
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
small can crushed pineapple
ground pepper to your taste(if you wish)
slices of pineapple for garnish
Mix the ground beef and all the ingredients together(except for the pineapple
slices of course). Let it all sit for at least 30 minutes. Then barbecue or
broil the hamburgers. Garnish with the pineapple and serve on hamburger buns
or on a bed of lettuce, if you wish. Have fun and be happy.
Corn Beef and Cabbage
With Saint Patrick’s Day coming up, I thought I might pass along Mom’s Corn Beef and Cabbage recipe:
Ingredients:
3-4 lbs. corn beef brisket
2 onions sliced
1/2 bunch fresh parsley
1 bayleaf
1 onion whole
3 cloves
pepper to taste
1 large carrot
small round potatoes
2 lbs. cabbage cut in wedges
Place beef in large pot: cover with cold water; bring to boil; discard water and add fresh water. Cover and add all ingredients except the potatoes and cabbage. Bring to boil. Simmer gently for four hours (skim foam). Remove parsley, cloves and onion before cooking cabbage in the water. Cook potatoes separately. Cook cabbage 15-20 minutes.
Serves 6 people.
Irish Mustard Sauce:
1 Tbs. corn starch
2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp salt(or less)
1 Tbs. butter
1/4 cup vinegar
1 tsp. horseradish
1 cup water
2 egg yolks
Combine corn starch, sugar, dry mustard and salt. Add water. Stir over low heat until thickened. Remove from heat. Add butter, vinegar and horseradish. Beat the hot mixture into egg yolks. Add the whole mixture into the pan. Cook slowly, stirring until sauce thickens (this sauce keeps several weeks in the frig. in covered jar).
Enjoy