Ok all I have 1 lb of browned hamburger meat(the 93% stuff) and...

13 June 2015 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

...I need some ideas/recipes for tonight. My wife had put this on Thursday Night to thaw but we forget about it til this morning. I just browned it.

[cherry]

add some taco seasoning and have tacos for supper....or add some spaghetti sauce and have spaghetti...or sauté diced celery,onion, and pepper with a little butter and olive oil and once cooked, add hamburger...then mix all that with some cooked elbow macaroni..adding more butter/oil as needed, and salt and pepper..

[MomwithHope]

I just had that happen this week, I added 2 cans of chili beans with sauce and some chopped onions for a quick chili, and we had some dogs to go with it. (not the Obama kind :))

[bboop]

You can make spaghetti sauce using it and freeze what you don’t eat. It’ll be perfectly fine months from now.

[Dust in the Wind]

The problem the my wife and I are having is that MOST cookbooks/recipes make TOO MUCH and we are left with SCADS of leftover. I wish the I/WE could find more stuff(Cookbooks/Recipes) for just 2 people.

The one place in a marriage where "Divide and conquer" fits. If the recipe says 6 servings; divide by three and so on...

[fwdude]

Hamburger Helper will save the day!

Yuck! Why would anyone do that to perfectly good hamburger?

[CatherineofAragon]

That sounds good. I’d have to leave out the celery because the husband has an aversion to the stuff, but that’s the kind of dish you can improvise and substitute with. Mushrooms, maybe....or egg noodles instead of rice.

[Kirkwood]

Reservations at the local emergency room.

[IM2MAD]

Busy Day Beef Burgers.

1 pound ground chuck or round
1 1/2 cups chopped onion (may use frozen)
1 1/2 cups chopped celery
1 can tomato soup (do not reconstitute)
1/2 cup catsup
1 teaspoon salt
dash pepper
5 to 6 buns, toasted

Brown meat, add onion and celery. Add soup, catsup, and seasonings. Simmer uncovered about 20 minutes. Salt to taste.

[imardmd1]

1/2 cup of diced onion, sauteed in butter with one clove of garlic, minced.

(Be boiling a few peeled potatoes at the same time.)

When done, add the meat and one can of Campbell's concentrated mushroom soup base.

Heat to point where it begins to bubble, then turn heat down.

Drain the boiled potatoes and put in serving dish.

Add 1/2 pint sour cream to meat/onion/soup sauce and stir in well, then place this sauce into serving dish.

Then forthwith serve to everyone. Each person to fork-mash his potatoes, spoon Homburg Stroganoff sauce over it, and enjoy!

[imardmd1]

Correction:

Homburg Hamburg

(I'm always mistyping and posting w/o checking the copy)

[BOOHA]

Taco pie
look it up under Bisquick, good stuff

[RckyRaCoCo]

S.O.S.

[imardmd1]

Actually, now that I've remembered this, it's so I'm going to make this for supper. I've got everything but the sour cream, so I'm going to get that now. My stomach is growling for it.

(I'm an old bachelor, and this is so easy to make. For even one person, the extra sauce keeps as left-overs on toast for breakfast!)

Even if you don't make this today, get some hamburg and make it again soon. It's really good and simple to make.

Hamburg Stroganoff.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There is a magazine called “cooking for two” that is really good.

[353FMG]

Convert it into spaghetti sauce.

[Paladin2]

Steak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PE9rdmvIz0

[353FMG]

Fry some bacon and add the drippings to the ground beef to make it more palatable.

[JimRed]

There ain’t nothing that Tabasco Sauce can’t fix...

I use a lot of the green variety. A bit less heat, a bit more flavor.

[ontap]

First step for chili!!!

[roamer_1]

The problem the my wife and I are having is that MOST cookbooks/recipes make TOO MUCH and we are left with SCADS of leftover. I wish the I/WE could find more stuff(Cookbooks/Recipes) for just 2 people.

Ah, yes. Since the divorce, I am now missus-less, kids are all gone (mostly), so it's down to me. I have the same problem - I can cook for 6, but cooking for 1 is way different.

One of the things that has become a staple here is taco meat.

1lb burger, 1/2 onion, 1/2 G.Pepper, Jalapeno to suit (1/2 w/seeds to start)... Fry together, drain. Add taco seasoning (I prefer Taco Bell), 1 can of drained black beans.

This mix then goes in a Tupperware container in the fridge.

You can make a taco in minutes. It is the fastest thing I can think of to make. Soft shell, a couple tablespoons of taco meat, cheese.. nuke for 1 min. chopped lettuce, fresh onion, tomato, and salsa to taste, roll it up. Zoom.

Good for nachos.
Taco salad.
Baked potato w/ cheese and salsa.
An omelet or added flavor in scrambled eggs...

Now, I can use it all up in a week, but I am working at it... so I put 1/2 of the mix in a ziplock, roll the air out, and throw it in the freezer. It won't keep long without freezer burn, but it will stay good a week or two. Don't nuke to un-thaw...

Another good one is chili, because it freezes good. I'll make a big ol pot, eat like a pig, and still get 6 quarts in the freezer. Same with spaghetti sauce.