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Beef Recipes For Delicious Family Meals
By Barry J Smallhorn
Beef recipes can help you make variations on your favourite meals.
Rather than cooking from the same recipe, you can add variations
to make the meal much more interesting and unpredictable. By taking
ideas to make changes to your favourite recipes, your family will
congratulate you, when you review your options and create delicious
meals, with different flavours and tastes.
It is easy to change the taste of the beef, by adding sauces,
marinating and sprinkling with garlic, minced onions, herbs and
spices. Many people know how to reduce the fat in beef. All one
needs, is to cut out all the fat and voila! You have lean beef.
You can even buy lean beef, helping you cut down on your meal
preparation time.
Beef For A Dinner Party
There may be a dinner party in your home, and you want to make
the beef as the main course. By marinating the meat and adding
herbs and spices, you are adding flavours to the meat, making
the meat much more delicious.
These days, you can use effective recipes to cut down on your
time to prepare and cook a delicious and nutritious meal. Even
though prices for beef may be rising, you can find ways to eat
the meat less often, but make the meal more memorable by using
different beef recipes.
Grilling Your Beef Burgers
When you plan your weekly menus, beef recipes are sure to occupy
a couple of spots. While your family surely enjoys beef, the cost
is doubtless a concern for your budget. A simple burger meal can
put a big dent in the food budget.
How many ways can you disguise the illustrious burger? How can
you make your beef recipes stretch your food dollar and still
satisfy your family’s taste? Let’s see. Burgers are the all-American
standby. You form the beef into patties, then fry or grill them.
Adding Different Ingredients Into Your Burger Mix
Slice a tomato, onion and lay on a slice of cheese for the standard
burger. Yep, that’s good, but, served too often, it gets old.
It’s time to think outside the box. Here are some tasty variations
on this ho-hum dinner.
Toss a bit of stale beer in to your burger mix. Beer makes for
a juicy burger. Add some minced, fresh garlic and some sauteed
onions. Make very thin patties and layer thinly sliced mushrooms
between the two patties. Top off the mushrooms with grated smoked
cheddar. Dress this gourmet burger with a liquid smoke preparation
and grill.
Dressing Your Beef Recipes With Your Favourite Flavours
Meatloaf is another economical pillar of the American menu. Beef
recipes for meatloaf range from layers of pickles to ketchup.
Make your meatloaf beef recipe a standout. Do you like teriyaki
sauce? Mesquite flavors? Dress your beef recipes with all of the
flavors you enjoy.
Pot roast recipes are equally versatile. Here, the slow cooker
is your friend! Pile a bunch of veggies, such as potatoes, carrots
and peas, into the slow cooker and lay your roast on top. Sprinkle
the roast with garlic, thyme and a minced onion. Walk away in
the morning and come home to a delicious, ready to eat beef recipe
in the evening.
Beef Casseroles And Beef Bourguignon
Beef casseroles are yet another way to enjoy beef recipes in
an economical way. Marinades infuse the meat with flavor, while
stretching the beef in a mix of rice, pasta, veggies and a sauce.
Beef bourguignon, the dish of French renown, is actually an economical
beef recipe. The most expensive ingredient in this dish is the
Cognac. You don’t need to have a whole bottle on hand. Just a
few tablespoons, available in the tiny mini-bottles, suffice.
Mushrooms are the key ingredient.
In a heavy frying pan, over high heat, saute a pound of mushrooms
and a large sweet onion. Add the cognac. Layer this into the bottom
of the slow cooker. Sear a pound and a half of beef stew meat
until the edges are browned. Pile the meat on top of the veggies
and walk away. When you return home in the evening, cook a batch
of rice. Ladle the meat mixture over the rice and serve.
Marinate And Tenderise Your Beef Steaks
How about a grilled steak? Less expensive cuts of beef respond
well to a marinade. An inexpensive top round steak can become
a gourmet treat, when imbued with a good marinade. Marinades tenderize
and flavor the meat.
The Hoagie sandwich is an often overlooked beef recipe. Shop
the sales and stock up on roast beef when it’s on sale. Load that
sandwich up with sprouts, onions, Jalapeno peppers and sweet bell
peppers. This makes an excellent lunch, for both kids and adults.
Reducing Your Meal Preparation Time
Now, with all these beef recipes, there is only one problem.
Many of these recipes take a long time to prepare and cook. The
slow cooker helps, by cooking while you are at work and the meal
is ready by the time you arrive home. But there is a long preparation
time, where you have to cut the vegetables and meat, into small
manageable pieces, so they cook much quicker.
These days, you can purchase pre-cut vegetables and small pieces
of beef. It is easy to buy your pieces of beef at your favourite
meat shop. But, if you need to cook a quick and easy meal, then
you can buy small pieces of beef, to cut down on your cooking
time, as the smaller pieces of beef cook much quicker. You can
add pre-cut vegetables. Many food stores now sell pre-cut vegetables,
to help you reduce your preparation time, spending less time in
the kitchen.
The less time you spend in the kitchen, cooking your meals with
beef recipes, the more time you will have for yourself and your
family, to help you recover after a long day at work.
About the Author:
Barry J Smallhorn has written a number of articles on recipes, cooking and food including
Seafood Recipes,
Beef Jerky Meat Recipe,
Cooking With Wine,
Food Recipes,
Tuna Fish,
Caviar,
Potato Recipes,
Cocktail Recipes,
Organic Gift Baskets.
Keep a lookout for more articles on this website.
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