For the Heck of it!

We usually spend a couple hundred dollars buying meat when we go to the butcher shop but sooner or later the freezer starts looking bare again. At the moment all I have left is 2 frozen cut-up chickens, 1 pound of ground chuck, 1 pound of “stew meat” (cubed chuck roast) and a package of bacon.

I don’t feel like thawing out a chicken (too late in the day anyway) and I”m tired of ground beef (we just had spaghetti the other night) and I don’t feel like making beef stew either. We also have several Totino’s Party Pizzas that we keep on hand for an emergency. An example of an emergency is when nobody feels like cooking but everyone feels like eating. I asked my husband if he wanted “something from ground beef, a little pizza or a concoction made from stew meat”. He had a funny look on his face, but always the adventurer he said “a stew meat concoction”.

So this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to make a round steak recipe but use stew meat instead. Here is the recipe straight from the 1972 Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. They don’t make cookbooks like this anymore and that’s a fact. I bought the Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition for my daughter-in-law a few Christmas’s ago. It is a good cookbook, but nothing can take the place of my old fashioned one.

This is the recipe I’ll be using: Continue reading →