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Hamburger Helper
Topic Started: Apr 20 2009, 09:09 AM (506 Views)
brenda
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Hey Mik, apple, Sue, VPG, and all you cooks out there!!!

I've got fresh bread to bake for dinner tonight. I've got 2 pounds of ground beef thawed. I'm looking for inspiration for the ground beef. I'm thinking NOT burgers; and hubby yawned when I suggested meatloaf. :lol2:

So I'm looking for something fun and tasty to make from the ground beef that doesn't have pasta, noodles, or other carbs. Like I said, I want to do the new fresh-baked bread.

I looked for recipes, and the closest I came up with was hamburger casserole type things. Golly, I'd like to do better than that. :hat:

Any ideas?
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Frank_W
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Stuffed bell peppers?
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Frank_W
Apr 20 2009, 09:13 AM
Stuffed bell peppers?
I love them, Frank. Hubby and daughter do not. In fact, if hubby eats them, we are all rather unhappy for a time, if you know what I mean. :lol2:

I also love cabbage rolls, but hubby and daughter .........

I may just have to create a recipe for tonight. Sometimes that's even more fun. It's kind of creative and daring, with minimal risk of explosions. Oh, wait ............ maybe I better reread what I wrote in the first paragraph.
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Sloppy Joes!
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Make the meatloaf. Put it in the fridge until it's cool, then slice into "steaks". Season the slices with Old Bay seasoning and a dash of powdered red pepper, and a touch of salt. Grill them on your George Foreman... :D Steam some whole green beans and make some garlic and butter mashed potatoes.

Or............ make Sloppy Joes..... :D
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Screw it. You could be like my mom, when I was a kid:

"You have two choices."
"Okay. What are they?"
"Take it or leave it."
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- Shepherd's pie

- Chili
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With home baked bread? Chili. Definitely. With a big cold glass of milk and lots of butter on the bread. This looked good. You're good enough to improvise.

http://www.recipezaar.com/72-market-street-kick-ass-chili-361235

Ingredients
1/4 lb bacon, diced
3 lbs beef stew meat, chili grind
1 1/2 lbs pork butt, chili grind
2 tablespoons peanut oil
1 2/3 cups white onions, chopped
2 jalapenos, diced
1 3/4 teaspoons oregano
1 teaspoon cumin
2 1/2 tablespoons fresh chili peppers, minced, such as New Mexico serranos or california green chilies
2 1/2 tablespoons ground pastilla chilies
1 1/4 tablespoons cayenne
1 1/2 tablespoons garlic, chopped
salt (to taste)
1 (16 ounce) can tomato paste
1 lb plum tomato, diced
6 tablespoons water
1 1/4 cups ale
3/4 tablespoon lemon juice
Directions
1Cook bacon in a skillet until crisp; strain and reserve drippings for another use, set bacon aside.
2Saute beef and pork in a hot skillet with peanut oil until brown; add onions and jalapenos, cook until onions are tender.
3Add oregano, cumin, New Mexico and pastilla chiles, cayenne, garlic and salt to taste; stir then add tomato puree, tomatoes, water and ale.
4Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer, simmer until the meat is tender, about one hour.
5Add bacon and sprinkle with lemon juice just before serving.
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Frank_W
Apr 20 2009, 09:44 AM
Screw it. You could be like my mom, when I was a kid:

"You have two choices."
"Okay. What are they?"
"Take it or leave it."
Hey! My mom used to make that a lot too! :lol2:
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My mom was so into casseroles we took to calling them cusseroles.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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I walked into the house one evening, wrinkled my nose, and said, "What STINKS?!" My mom whirled around with a dangerous look in her eye and said, "Your DINNER!"

(In all fairness, she was steaming broccoli, which just smells like an enormous fart.) :unsure:
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My mom was a saint, I tell you, but she wasn't a great cook. One thing she COULD make and make very well, were casseroles. Yummy.
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JBryan
Apr 20 2009, 09:30 AM
Sloppy Joes!
JB, you have some Minnesooooota blood in you there somewhere!!

You're so smart. Yes, I should do that with my dough another night by making buns out of it. I made over three pounds of dough yesterday, so I should be able to get three or four meals of bread from it.

Tonight I want to have the bread be somewhat on its own, since this is the first time I've made this recipe. I want to see how crunchy the crust gets. It's supposed to be really crunchy on the exterior and soft inside. If it really is that way, then putting a sloppy joe filling inside could be even messier than usual. I'll need to practice with the dough a bit to get ready to do the Joes.
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Larry
Apr 20 2009, 09:41 AM
Make the meatloaf. Put it in the fridge until it's cool, then slice into "steaks". Season the slices with Old Bay seasoning and a dash of powdered red pepper, and a touch of salt. Grill them on your George Foreman... :D Steam some whole green beans and make some garlic and butter mashed potatoes.

This is sounding really good, and good with the new bread recipe. Hubby now says meatloaf would be good. And I happen to have a bag of FRESH green beans. Daughter loves mashed potatoes.

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Frank_W
Apr 20 2009, 09:44 AM
Screw it. You could be like my mom, when I was a kid:

"You have two choices."
"Okay. What are they?"
"Take it or leave it."
:lol2:

Oh, ya, we have nights like that here, too.

Sometimes when I'm gone too much to cook, we have 'fend for yourself' night, also known as 'pothole luck'. :lol2:
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Phlebas
Apr 20 2009, 09:47 AM
- Shepherd's pie

- Chili
Got a favorite Shepherd's Pie recipe, Phlebas??
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Mikhailoh
Apr 20 2009, 09:51 AM
With home baked bread? Chili. Definitely. With a big cold glass of milk and lots of butter on the bread. This looked good. You're good enough to improvise.

http://www.recipezaar.com/72-market-street-kick-ass-chili-361235


Whoa, Mik!!

I'm brave enough to cook it.

I'm brave enough to eat it.

I'm brave enough to serve it to hubby.

I'm NOT brave enough to have hubby in the same bed with me after that chili.

He'll have to sleep at your house, OK??

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Liam has a lot of weird food things. He likes some things that other kids turn their noses up at (shrimp, lamb, salad...) and hates things that normal kids like (lasagna, Kraft dinner). I also eat a lot of foods that I know he isn't going to eat. So the deal is he has to try a couple bites, then he can either eat the parts he likes or he can make a bowl of soup or a sandwich.

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That's our rule too, Dol: We don't force her to eat stuff that she doesn't like, but she has to take at least one bite of it. Nine times out of ten, she ends up liking whatever it is that she initially turned her nose up at.
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Ok. Go with the meatloaf. There isn't anything I know of that is better than a truly well prepared meat loaf. Yum.


They grow them chickens big in Minesooota.
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JBryan
Apr 20 2009, 09:30 AM
Sloppy Joes!
Sounds so very good!

Do you ever actually make hamburger helper? IMO ground turkey meat is better in it than hamburger.

I have a recipe (it's actually Campbell's recipe) for a dish called Taco Bake. Very VERY good. I'll get that to you in a few minutes, just have to go find it.
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apple
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i kind of like Larry's recipe. - i'm definitely trying it.

you can always make greek spiced meatballs.. or swedish ones with a sour cream sauce.. (dieter's food). i generally like hamburger plain (with buns and such).
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Beef Taco Bake

Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes

1 pound ground beef
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) tomato soup
1 cup salsa
1/2 cup milk
6 flour tortillas (or 8 corn tortillas) Shred tortillas into small pieces (the recipe recommends cutting into 1 inch pieces. I usually have all kind of varying sizes, it doesn't really matter. Just make sure they're not so big people won't choke on them).
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1) In medium skillet over medium-high heat, cook beef until browned, stirring to separate meat. Pour off fat.
2) Add soup, salsa, milk, tortillas, and HALF the cheese. Mix well and transfer to baking dish.
3) Bake at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes or until hot. Sprinkle with remaining cheese.


This has been very popular with my family. I serve it with freshly baked garlic bread and a salad, usually cesar or lite cesar. Very easy to make and also very delicious.
Edited by jgoo, Apr 20 2009, 01:01 PM.
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Our daughter eats almost anything, except green peppers and some cooked vegetables. She eats raw spinach, and almost any raw veggie, except peppers. So she has learned to make raw veggies for herself when I have cooked ones for hubby and myself. That's fine by me.

Otherwise she's a good sport and eats ethnic cuisine, seafoods of every type including calamari, and most anything else. She really enjoyed the great foods in Germany and Venice.

She's a more adventurous eater than my mother or stepdad. :lol2:

Jgoo, I have never liked Hamburger Helper, not even as a teen. When my mom made it, I always made something else for myself. I just couldn't go for it.
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Mikhailoh
Apr 20 2009, 12:26 PM
Ok. Go with the meatloaf. There isn't anything I know of that is better than a truly well prepared meat loaf. Yum.


They grow them chickens big in Minesooota.
Yes, Mik, I am too chicken to live through the toxic atmosphere that the chilies would create. :lol2:


Speaking of big chickens, the ones from the grass-fed farm near us have been about 7.5 to over 8 pounds lately for us. Dat's some big chickens, Mik! :D
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