Meat: Beef & Pork Easy Recipes

Easy ground beef recipes are my favorite accomplishment. Lol, for me they are simple as I like ground beef more than most everything else. If I had to choose one food it would be ground beef as it’s tasty and it’s so easy to blend it in with different things.

While I’m not a formally trained chef I have been cooking my own food for over 55 years. My grandmother started teaching me to cook at age 4 and the first thing she taught me was to fry a hamburger on the stove. I stood on a chair to flip the burgers and I learned to stay away from spattering grease. Cheeseburgers are my favorite meal.

I love easy recipes made with hamburger and a dinner made with ground beef and potatos almost guarantees I’ll show up to eat. I make a hamburger potato casserole that practically guarantees I’ll over eat. Hamburger casserole recipes are some of the easiest things there are to make.

If you already have a few ground hamburger recipes I can give you two tips, right now, maybe three, to make them better.

When doing anything with ground beef, frying, grilling, broiling, etc. make sure you get the outside of the hamburger, brown. There is nothing that tastes worse than grey ground beef.

Always, always salt and pepper the outside of the meat before you start cooking it. Even if you are breaking it up and browning it for a casserole. It will make a huge difference in the taste.

The third tip is onion. NO, not onion salt, onion flakes or anything else that isn’t a real onion. Real onions make things taste great when fried with the ground beef or hamburgers. Even for people who don’t like onion, frying some onion along with the meat, in the same pan, will give it a flavor they will love.

Oh, and one more quick tip, fry the beef in a cast iron pan of you can. Fry it with as hot a fire as you can so it gets brown. If you don’t have cast iron then the thicker or heavier the pan the better it will be.

Now I’m not going to tell you that any of my ground beef recipes are healthy eating, although, some do get close, for the most part they aren’t low fat. I also start almost everything by browning a half a chopped onion in a half a stick of good margerine. No, not fat free or soft. Good old hi fat margerine.

I tell people I’m a hamburger or ground beef gourmet and for the most part it’s true. So much so that I’ve never eaten hamburger helper and never will. From the smell of it they should call it hamburger killer instead of hamburger helper. Yuck.

IMO ground round is the best ground beef you can get. I’ve had ground sirloin and it’s very good too. I didn’t like the ground filet mingnon as well. Ground round is always going to be cheaper than ground sirloin, if you can even find ground sirloin. An acceptable substitue is ground chuck.

Make sure any ground beef you use is 80/20 or 85/15. Anything lower is to greasy and anything higher doesn’t have enough fat and you actually have to fry it in margerine so it defeats the purpose of buying extra lean ground beef.

Most of my recipes require an hour or an hour and thirty minutes and all have some time involved in preparing ingredients and mixing them. After all, you aren’t just making some edible food, you’re making some gourmet ground beef meals for you and your family.

I’ve even got an easy beef gravy recipe. Lol, of course you have to make the beef first. The gravy is as simple as falling off a log tho. Nothing complicated at all, just easy gravy that tastes good everytime.

I’ve never written down the recipes for my ground beef dishes because I’ve been making them so long I just know. I make several different varities of burgers, hamburger steaks, meat loaf and other things from ground beef.

That’s why it’s one of my favorite foods and why I’ve got some of the best ground beef recipes you’ll ever eat. Guaranteed. Of course that guarantee is only valid if you follow the directions exactly. If it’s not good and the dog won’t even eat it I know you didn’t follow the directions.

Here’s a place that has some good and easy Easy Beef Recipes if you’re interested. If you aren’t it’s no big deal as I’ll be putting up a lot of my personal quick and easy ground beef recipes in the coming days.

OTOH if you like to eat out a lot but can no longer afford it you can get this cookbook with all of your favorite restruant recipes so you can make them more cheaply at home. Eat the food you love but can’t afford. Official Secret Restaurant Recipes The ribs recipe tastes just like it does at the restruant and is one of my favorites.

Because I know times are tough and gas isn’t the only thing getting more expensive, so is food. If you need some frugal cooking and living tips or want to be able to live on less check this place out Cooking and Living Cheaper as it has some great ideas too.

Keep checking back as I’ll be posting more of my quick and easy ground beef recipes every week. Lol, I’ve got a ton of them and even if you are new to cooking you can handle most of them.