We ate lots of Swiss Steak growing up. It takes a rather inexpensive cut of meat and turns it into something delicious for your family. You can make this in the slow cooker or pressure cooker/Instant Pot. With little prep it will become your new go to favorite meal.

Swiss Steak

We ate lots of Swiss Steak growing up. It takes a rather inexpensive cut of meat and turns it into something delicious for your family. You can make this in the slow cooker or pressure cooker/Instant Pot. With little prep it will become your new go to favorite…

Beef with Snow Peas

Beef with Snow Peas

  Following the trend of recipes on Pinterest, I came across this beef recipe.  It just looked fantabulous!!  I mean, if you like beef stir fries how could you NOT make this??   As always Walmart always seems to have stir-fry beef on mark down.  Once I get…

Chili-Cheese Mac

Chili-Cheese Mac

Chili-Cheese Mac COOKING LIGHT, APRIL 2012 It didn’t look like the picture.  I probably should have drained the meat, as it produced quite a bit of liquid.  Or cut back on the broth a bit to compensate.It was very much like Hamburger Helper.  LOL  It was good!  It was…

Quick Pastitsio

Quick Pastitsio

  Quick Pastitsio COOKING LIGHT, OCTOBER 2011 Yeah, I’m just about convinced I DO.NOT like pastitsio.  I think this is the second recipe I’ve tried…and nothing.  Just don’t like it. It’s bland.  It’s dry.  It’s pretty much tasteless.  This is the same family as the beef and cheese noodle…

Eggplant Bolognese

Eggplant Bolognese

Eggplant Bolognese Cooking Light, OCTOBER 2010 Um….so….I made this but haven’t really “eaten” it yet. It made a large batch of sauce (I’m sure I added more eggplant than it called for) so I put half of it in the freezer. The next day, I ate it as…

Mushroom Bolognese

Mushroom Bolognese Cooking Light, OCTOBER 2010 Every time I make this I forgot to buy enough mushrooms. LOL Failure to read and follow instructions. From what I can remember, this is really good and I’m sure it would be better with all the shrooms. I think the next…

Steak Diane

Steak Diane

Steak Diane recipe Cooking Light, July 2005 I’ve never had steak diane before, so I didn’t know what to expect. It was pretty good. Really good, even. I don’t know what the big deal is about this dish because it was really easy to make and didn’t take…

Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed Peppers recipe Cooking Light, January 2003 This was pretty easy, tasty, and FILLING! I couldn’t eat the whole portion!! I thought it was going to be bland, and just by chance used spaghetti sauce. I had plain tomato sauce for it, but couldn’t find the second 8…

Greek Steak Pitas

Greek Steak Pitas

Greek Steak Pitas recipe Cooking Light, June 2009 So, I forgot to buy spinach. Maybe it was a subconscious thing as I’m not too fond of sauteed fresh spinach. We used london broil instead of flank steak. I tried to cut it supah thin so it wouldn’t be…

Bourbon and Brown Sugar Flank Steak with Garlic-Chive Mashed Potatoes

Bourbon and Brown Sugar Flank Steak with Garlic-Chive Mashed Potatoes

Bourbon and Brown Sugar Flank Steak with Garlic-Chive Mashed Potatoes recipe Cooking Light, September 2002 So, I pretty much substitute london broil for flank steak lately. There’s more recipes for flank steak and you can cook them the same way with almost the same results. This was DELISH!!…

Asian Flank Steak

Asian Flank Steak recipe Cooking Light, MAY 1996 Yeah, I’m not so great with cooking meat for some reason. This was mighty tasty, but I undercooked it at first…like WAY undercooked it. I didn’t have the right kind of vinegar so I used balsamic instead. I think it…

Rosemary Rib Roast

Rosemary Rib Roast

Rosemary Rib Roast Southern Living, December 2003 What can I say…it’s a rosemary rubbed rib roast. It was excellent and very tasty. It took FOREVAH to cook though. About 2 1/2 to almost 3 hours so we didn’t let it rest the way you should, but it was…

Mini Meat Loaves

Mini Meat Loaves

Mini Meat Loaves Cooking Light, January 2003 We made these tonight for dinner. It’s meatloaf. Don’t over mix the meatloaf. I made that mistake. For some reason, when you make it in a larger loaf, it doesn’t make that much of a difference. Making them smaller seems to…

Lazy Lasagna

Lazy Lasagna Cooking Light, September 1997 We made this last night because CTM wanted lasagna. We alread had some ground beef in the freezer so I took it out before we headed to the grocery. I did substitute the cottage cheese for fat free ricotta. I can’t help…

Goulash

Goulash Sparkrecipes.com YUMMY! This was really good and filling. Since BF made it, I can’t really tell what I’d change. I don’t think I’d change anything except the sauce. It was a little on the sweet side. It looked simple to make and tasted good. We’re having it…

Root vegetables add a touch of sweetness to this savory Yankee Pot Roast stew. Yankee cooks traditionally add the vegetables partway through the cooking process, which helps keep them from breaking down

Yankee Pot Roast

  Yankee Pot Roast Cooking Light, OCTOBER 2007   Meh. It’s pot roast. I liked the addition of parsnips to this, but I didn’t do any of the other interesting root veggies. Just onions, potatoes, carrots, and the parsnips. They are REALLY sweet when cooked, if you haven’t…

Beef Goulash

Beef Goulash

Beef Goulash Cooking Light, MARCH 2006 We made this recipe last night. We didn’t follow the directions to a T because, seriously, 2+ hours?? I don’t think so. I think it’s something I would convert to a slow cooked recipe, though. So, we followed the directions to the…

Home-Style Meat Loaf

Home-Style Meat Loaf Cooking Light, MARCH 1998 Photo courtesy of Southern Living, APRIL 2005 This meatloaf was DELICIOUS! I would use a thermometer, though, mine was a little under cooked after the allotted time. We’re making this tonight for dinner, too. The sandwiches and left overs from this…