ground beef recipes

Barbecue Meatballs

April 26, 2012

Today for Ground Beef Thursday I have a very simple recipe for you. It only calls for a few ingredients and kids love it. So easy and so good! We like to eat these just as is, but you could easily serve these as meatball sandwiches or with extra sauce over potatoes or rice. [...]

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Bacon Cheeseburger Salad

April 19, 2012

Bacon, ground beef, and cheese all in one salad with a mustard dressing on top, how can you go wrong?! If I serve salad as a main dish it has to be a hearty salad with a lot of toppings. No light salads, otherwise known as girly salads, are allowed for a main course at [...]

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Bacon Cheeseburger Pasta

April 12, 2012

It is no secret that I love quick and easy dinners. In fact most of the recipes on my site are quick and easy ones. Two of my favorite quick and easy, kid friendly meals are taco pasta and pizza pasta. Both these meals are family favorites and are on the menu plan often. Today [...]

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Spaghetti Pie

April 5, 2012

This is a recipe that I have been making for years, probably close to 17 years. It is one of those kid friendly, inexpensive meals that freezes great and works well for taking to potluck dinners or to a friend in need. I cannot count how many times I have made this over the years, [...]

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Chili Relleno Casserole

March 29, 2012

This might just be my family’s new favorite dinner. We love it! And so far I have not only made it for my family, I have also taken it to a church dinner and made it to give a friend that has been sick. Everyone loved it. This is one of those very simple, yet [...]

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Crock Pot Taco Meatloaf

March 22, 2012

I posted on Facebook last week that I was cooking meatloaf in the crock pot for the first time and many of you mentioned that you cook it in the crock pot all the time. So, I guess I am behind the times, because I really do not remember trying this before. And now I am wondering what [...]

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Easy Creamy Baked Ziti

March 15, 2012

I have been making baked ziti for years, but this baked ziti recipe came about after the holidays when I was trying to use up some of the food in my refrigerator. I had picked up some cream cheese during the holidays for a really good price and I had a few packages left that were [...]

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Learning To Cook With Ground Beef

March 8, 2012

Today instead of sharing a ground beef recipe, I thought we would talk about cooking ground beef. One of the things that I talk about in my Cooking 101 For Kids ebook is the importance of learning to cook ground beef. It seems like such a simple step that you may over look and assume [...]

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Chili Rice Skillet Dinner

March 1, 2012

Today for Ground Beef Thursday I have a really quick and easy skillet rice dinner for you. And I am beginning to sense a theme with Ground Beef Thursdays. Not only have most of them been inexpensive recipes to make, but they have all been pretty quick and easy to make, which makes them even better.