For the Heck of it!
No set topic, no set niche – just for the heck of it!
The spaghetti was pretty good. I think I could have done a better job but any meal I don’t have to cook myself is a good meal. I thought the spaghetti came out a little on the dry side. I prefer mine with lots of rich red sauce. There were plenty of onions and mushrooms but hubby cut the onions a bit on the large side and a tad al dente. I don’t like onions in my spaghetti that I can crunch down on. Well, they weren’t crunchy but I like mine cooked soft. The meatballs were okay but they weren’t spicy enough to suit me, especially when I drink beer.
Speaking of beer, after all my griping and complaining I didn’t even finish my second beer. After I ate my spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread I still had one quarter beer left. Bleh. I poured myself a glass of Minute Maid lemonade instead. I gave the rest of my beer to the guzzler who was happy to get it. Next time he had better buy two six packs to keep the peace around here though. You never know, one day I might really drink three.
Later we’ll have Breyers chocolate ice cream while we watch TV. And that’s the way we have a big party at our house! hehe
What the heck??? So hubby gets a wild hair and decides to cook spaghetti and meatballs. While the 2 pounds of ground chuck is defrosting in the microwave he comes into the computer room and says “ya know, I think I’ll go to to the Stop and Rob and get some beer, bread for garlic bread and ice cream”. So I said okay, sounds good to me and we’ll have a party.
Now, we seldom drink beer or any other alcoholic beverage but today for some reason I guess we both just felt like it. So my question is this – why in the heck did he only buy one six pack???. I mean come on, he knows he drinks more than three beers, and while I normally only drink two myself I do like the option of knowing I can drink three if I want to.
So he waltzed in a few minutes ago and asked me “do you mind if I drink 4 beers instead of 3″? I’m like, what the??? Why didn’t you buy 2 six-packs? He said he didn’t know, he was in a hurry to come home and make me a nice spaghetti dinner. LOL I really buy that excuse. I just don’t know where his head was.
So I’m on my second beer and of course I let him have one of mine. Arrgh… I seldom drink but I figure if I’m going to do it I might as well do it. I told him if he ever came home again with only one six-pack I was going to make him turn around and go get another one. dang. So now I’d like another beer but neither of us will drive to get more since we’ve already had a few. Oh well, I’ll get over it and I’m sure it is for the best anyway.
Another recipe from good ol’ Betty Crocker. I found this recipe in the Betty Crocker Bisquick cookbook. I used lots of onion and added some extra cheese. It turned out really well if I do say so myself. This is my husband’s plate. I grabbed it from his hands and said “wait! I want to take a picture of that!” 
1 pound ground beef
1 large onion, chopped (1 cup)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese (4 ounces)
1/2 cup Original Bisquick
1 cup milk
2 eggs1. HEAT oven to 400 degrees. Grease pie plate, 9×1 1/4 inches. Cook beef and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown, drain. Spread in pie plate.
2. STIR remaining ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.
3. BAKE about 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.
Makes 6 servings.
High Altitude (3500 to 6500 feet): Bake 30 to 35 minutes.
I didn’t like it.
I’ve used the same recipe before using round steak so I don’t know what went wrong this time. I used the half cup of water but the gravy looked like a globby mess. I added another half cup of water and it looked more like gravy so I put the lid on it and let it simmer.
Another thing I did wrong was to put garlic salt on the meat before dredging it in flour. I do this out of habit but I forgot that the onion soup mix was very salty to begin with. oops!
I think my problem was that I cooked it too long. My husband visited his mother after work yesterday evening so I just let everything simmer until he got home. It still ended up as a globby mess in my opinion.
I might try this again sometime and hope I can remember the mistakes I made this time.
Hubby said he really liked it so I guess all’s well that ends well.
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
This is the recipe I’ll be using: Continue reading
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