When 110 pounds of ground beef arrives in your freezer, you experience a variety of emotions. When it appears just days after you'd donated 55 pounds of ground beef to the
Foodbank to make room for the new beef . . . well, let's just say that the need for new ground beef recipe ideas becomes imperative.
Why do I have so much ground beef in my freezer? Simply put, I like to know about where my food is coming from, and in addition to eating from our CSA farm share, I like to get meat and eggs locally as well. If you'd like to purchase beef local to where you live, check out the upper left corner for the Local Harvest options in your area.
If you live in the Seattle, WA area check out Farmstr where you can connect directly with food producers. I've got a NOTE below, more about the beef in my freezer, but I don't wish to offend anyone's tender sensibilities so I first I will share the following wonderful recipe ideas shared by a variety of food bloggers who answered my plea for ground beef recipes.
I broke this list into 9 groups, but you'll find there are some posts that could fit in multiple groups.
Kim from Cravings of a Lunatic's Lasagna Soup is one of them, as it fits in both the Lasagna category and the Soup/Chili/Slow Cooker category.
Wendy of Around My Family Table's Slow Cooker
Taco Meat is another one, fitting into both the Taco/Nacho category and the Slow Cooker/Chili/Soup category.
Chanie of Busy In Brooklyn's
Spaghetti Squash Bolognese . . . I could go on! Just like my
Visual Recipe Index, where I break up categories by vegetables above or under the ground, know that my mind is an interesting place and the categories seemed good at the time, or made better-sized collages.
Ground Beef in Lasagna
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Lasagna Soup from Cravings of a Lunatic
Easy Spicy Lasagna from Cravings of a Lunatic
Easy One Skillet Lasagna from I Heart Eating
Spicy Tortilla Lasagna from The Kitchen Is My Playground
Easy Italian Lasagna by Modern Christian Homemaker
Quadruple Roasted Vegetable Mock Florentine Mock Lasagna by me!
Ground Beef Stuffed into Things
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Meat & Rice Stuffed Baby Eggplants from Busy in Brooklyn
Baked Spaghetti and Spaghetti Squash with Optional Ground Beef from Kitchen Treaty
Chipotle Stuffed Zucchini Boats from Nutmeg Nanny
Spaghetti Squash Bolognese from Busy in Brooklyn
Pepper Potts' Stuffed Peppers from Mom on Time Out
Paleo Stuffed Eggplant (With Ground Beef) from Everyday Maven
Millet and Dukkah Stuffed Squash from This American Bite
Stuffed Peppers with Beef and Bulgur Wheat from The Lemon Bowl
Tomato and Capsicum Beef Mince Farcie with Polenta from Masala Herb
Lebanese Stuffed Cabbage Rolls from The Lemon Bowl
The Best Beef Samosas from Rock Recipes
Stuffed Breakfast Biscuits from Around My Family Table
Basic Farm Fresh Feasts-a-boli from me!
Beef, Mushroom, and Fresh Tomato FFF-a-boli from me!
Ground Beef in Sauce
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Ground Beef in Pie
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Ground Beef in Mexican Dishes
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Ground Beef in Meatballs and Meatloaf
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Ground Beef in the Slow Cooker, in Soups, and in Chili
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Ground Beef in Casseroles
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Beef and Wild Rice Bake from Miss in the Kitchen
Ground Beef in Burgers
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NOTE: The steer in my freezer that will feed my family for the next year had a name. It is not my intention to offend any tender sensibilities by sharing more about him. It is my intention to know more about the food I feed my family. If you don't want to learn more about the steer, please skip over the next paragraph. I indented and italicized it too, to make it easier if you wish to avoid. Join us after the photo for some final thoughts.
The steer below was born on a dairy farm in western Ohio. There's not much use for boy calves on dairy farms--yes, technically he was a bull calf--so he was given to my neighbor's friend's wife because she used to work on the dairy farm. My neighbor's friend and his family allow their steers (that's a neutered male, BTW) to free range on 13 acres of grass and shelter under the barn. The kids named this steer Butch, and regularly fed him and his buddies dandelions. My neighbor's friend built an earthen ramp to minimize the stress of loading the animals into his trailer for the short trip to the butcher shop. The butcher shop is known for not stressing the animals and only processes 2 animals a day. Butch was dry aged for a couple of weeks before cutting and packaging. We got a quarter of Butch (don't ask which quarter, as I've got both his tongue and his tail). As I don't cook large amounts of meat at one time, I prefer getting smaller one pound packages of ground beef in lieu of roasts. Why did I have so much ground beef left over from the previous animal? Apparently I'm pretty good at stretching meat.
I've
thoroughly enjoyed working on this recipe round up. So much so that I'm planning another one for what to do with the
Band Fruit Fundraiser citrus that will fill up my crisper in a few months! Any ideas for future recipe round ups, (25 uses for kohlrabi? 17 ways to love beets?) please leave 'em in the comments. Thanks!
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