Category Beef

Meatballs

March 25, 2013 Posted in Beef, Italian Food, Pasta

*My first time making meatballs was a huge hit! I created this recipe after much research and just winged it. So happy I did because they were AHMAZING! I made them to carb-load before my first dirt bike race. I made them in the morning before I drive out and tasted all 4 methods before I did the taste test with our dirt bike club members. This recipe yields about 30 meatballs for 1.5 pounds of meat...
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Paleo Shepherd’s Pie

March 10, 2013 Posted in Beef, Crossfit, Dinner, Paleo

 With Butternut Squash Mash in the middle:
Intriguing enough…when I did the Half Ironman a couple summers ago in Calgary, Canada we were given gift bags. Inside the gift bag was Impact Magazine the July/August 2011 edition. I saw this recipe for Mammothherd’s pie and kept the magazine to one day attempt it. Let’s just say I loved it so much I made it twice in one week...
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Crock Pot Chili

February 8, 2013 Posted in Beef, Crossfit, Dinner

This is the best chili recipe you’ll ever make. It was the blue ribbon winner at a chili cook-off in the south, garnering a prize worth $20,000 according the the recipe book it came from. With surprise ingredients like beer and unsweetened cocoa, the blend of seasonings and flavors creates a mouth watering chili that will have them begging for the recipe...
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3 Meat Burger Slider

December 2, 2012 Posted in Bacon, BBQ & Grilling, Beef, Summer

My husband loves pizza and he loves burgers. When he gets a pizza it’s the Meat Lover’s Pizza from Grazie’s in Upland, CA. This pizza inspired me to create the “3 Meat Burger.” I also read an article in the Los Angeles Times Food section from June 30, 2011 where a woman named Susan Salerno from Henderson, Nevada invented an Italian Caprese Slider...

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Jimmy Melt

September 20, 2012 Posted in BBQ & Grilling, Beef, Dinner

 Above: Where I got the idea = General Store in Kennedy Meadows, CA
We took a trip to Kennedy Meadows, CA in September 2012. We rode our dirt bikes nearly 100 miles all over that mountain. One of the days we decided to ride down to the General Store. When we got there we decided to order lunch. James “Jimmy” my Husband ordered a plain cheeseburger...
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Meatloaf Burgers

September 10, 2012 Posted in BBQ & Grilling, Beef

Ingredients:
1 lb. of Ground Beef 80/20
1 egg
10 saltine crackers, crumbled
½ Teaspoon of liquid smoke
1 ¼ cup of your favorite BBQ Sauce
6 Hamburger Buns
Optional: French’s French Fried Onions
Directions:
Clean and heat up your BBQ to medium heat
In a large bowl combine ground beef, egg, crumbled crackers, liquid smoke, and 1 cup of BBQ Sauce
Make 6 hamburger patties
Lay the patties o...
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Whiskey Steak

July 22, 2012 Posted in BBQ & Grilling, Beef, Dinner, Summer


Ingredients for 3 New York Steaks:

½ Cup Balsamic Vinegar

½ Cup Whiskey (I used Jack Daniel’s. You can use better ones but if your husband catches you, he will make you use something cheaper for the marinade. That’s what happened to me J

Olive oil

Salt & Pepper
Directions:

Rub olive oil, kosher salt, and pepper on both sides of steaks

In a large zip-lock bag pour in the balsamic vinegar and...
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Bison Burger

July 19, 2012 Posted in BBQ & Grilling, Beef, Summer


Over the weekend my Husband requested a Bison Burger. This week, my mission was to make it for him. If you are not familiar with the term bison here’s what it is: the American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo.
I invited my Mother in Law over as well so we could all get a taste of it.
I purchased the meat at Albertson’s, but I’m sure you can find this other pl...
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