Conference turris::cooks

    1 1/2 pounds ground beef
        1 large onion, chopped (1 cup)
      1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
      1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
      1/2 teaspoon oregano
      1/2 teaspoon fennel seed, crushed
      1/4 teaspoon cayenne
        1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
        1 cup water
        8 hamburger buns
    
    Cook meat in large skillet, skim off any fat.  Add onions; cook,
    stirring often, until onion is tender (about 3 minutes).  Stir in
    garlic powder, cumin, oregano, fennel, cayenne and tomato paste.
    Add enough of the water to make a thick sauce.  Simmer, stirring
    occasionally, 15 minutes.  Serve on split heated heated buns.
    
    If you don't have cumin, use Chili powder instead of the cumin,
    oregano and cayenne.
    
    

    Try meatballs...delicious and will break the monotony.

    This is a very homey, hearty dinner Mom used to make.
    
    			Scrambled Hamburg
    
    Brown hamburg with onions and mushrooms.  Pour off excess fat. 
    Stir in a small can of Mushroom Gravy and heat through.
    Ladle over mashed potatoes...
    
    A little dash of red wine would probably spark up the gravy, and
    you can certainly use your own homemade version.
    
    

    
    See note 1141 [Larb kai] substitute ground beef for ground chicken
    to make Larb Nur.
      
    /. Ian .\
    

    I haven't made but sounds good and quick,
    
     1 pound ground beef
     1 medium onion, chopped
     1 15-ounce can tomato sauce
     1 tablespoon oregano
       Dash of garlic powder
     1 15-ounce container ricotta cheese
     1 egg
       Dash salt and pepper
    10 freshly cooked lasagne noodles
    14 ounces grated mozzaarella cheese
    
    Saute beef and onion in large deep skillet over medium-high heat
    until beef is browned and onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.
    Pour off fat.  Add 2/3 of tomato sauce, oregano and garlic powder
    and heat through.  Remove from heat.  Set half of beef-tomato mixture
    aside.  Combine ricotta, egg, salt and pepper in medium bowl.  Spoon
    half of cheese mixture over beef in skillet.  Top with 5 noodles,
    half of mozzarella, reserved beef-tomato mixture, remaining cheese
    mixture, 5 noodles and remaing tomato sauce.  Sprinkle with remaing
    mozzarella.  Cook over low heat until warmed through and cheese
    melts, 5 minutes.
                                                        

    Renee, you might want to try the Microwave Chili, 234.5.  Add chopped
    onions to the recipe.  It's good and leftovers are even better.

    There are some Impossible Pie recipes in here that use hamburger;
    you can make meatloaf fancier by putting cheese in the middle. 
    My mom's version of SOS was ground beef, fried, drained, with white
    sauce - and lots of onions and black pepper!  Ladle over boiled
    quatered potatoes.  Or, fry and drain, add a jar of brown gravy
    and serve with noodles (poor man's stoganoff) or quartered potatoes.
    
    I make Hankie-Pankies a lot - not what you'd call a square meal,
    but they freeze well:
    
    1 lb hamburger or ground turkey, 1 lb sausage (Hot if you like),
    1 lb Velveeta (Mexican or regular), one loaf cocktail rye.  Fry
    meats together, drain, let cheese melt on top, spoon onto bread
    slices, freeze or broil.
    
    TW

    
    Hollow out vegetables, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, eggplant,
    onions, etc, chop and sautee the veggie leftovers, mix with bread 
    crumbs and lean beef pack the mixture back into the veggies, put 
    in a casserole dish with tomato sauce to cover and bake at 350 until 
    the meat is done.  Sometimes I put cheese on top.  Usually I serve
    this with rice.  Ground turkey works well too.  All in all a very easy
    dish, tastes great, and it makes easy to heat leftovers.  
                                                                       
                                    

    
    Here's one that I made when I was a Girl Scout.  It's quick and
    easy:
    
    1 lb of ground sirloin
    2 cans of Campbell's Vegetarian Alphabet soup
    
    Brown meat in skillet.  When all brown, drain fat from meat and
    place back in skillet.  Add soup and heat through.
    
    
    
    Colleen
    Troop 2131

    
    Mom called this "American Goulash", but it's sort of a twist on
    American Chop Suey:
    
    	Coarsely chopped and saute in a little olive oil in a large
        skillet or electric frying pan:
    
    	1 medium-large onion
    	1 green bell pepper
    
    	Add and cook:
    
    	1 lb. hamburger
    	
    	Add and simmer:
    
    	2 cans Campbell's tomato soup
    	1/2 cup water
    
    	Stir in some cooked thin spaghetti (a handful about 2 inches
    	in diameter looking at the end).
    
    	Add fresh ground pepper (and salt to taste).
    	Diane
    

    
    This a recipe that we have from an anti-cancer cookbook. It's
    Indonesian.
    
    150g asian noodles
    1 capsicum
    2 sticks of celery
    1 large carrot
    1 onion
    1/4 cabbage
    3 cloves of garlic
    2 rashers of bacon (trimmed of fat of course)
    1 egg
    a little oil (sunflower or other polyunsaturated)
    300g lean minced meat
    1 tsp sambal (or chilli powder i suppose)
    1 tbsp soy sauce
    freshly ground black pepper
    
    cook the noodles for 3 mins in boiling water, strain and refresh
    (rinse) under cold water, drain and put aside
    
    seed and dice the capsicum, dice the carrot, onion and celery. shred
    the cabbage and chop up the bacon and garlic.
    
    beat the egg with a little water. brush a small frypan with oil
    and quickly scramble egg in it. Put aside.
    
    fry onion until just brown around the edges. Using an egglifter
    transfer the oion into a bowl. Fry the bacon until crisp and add
    it to the onion.
    
    fry the chopped garlic fot 5 secs and add the minced meat. fry until
    loose and browned then put it in the bowl with the onion and bacon.
    
    put the celery, capsicum, carrot and cabbage in a wok (or a frypan)
    which has been brushed with a little oil. stir fry for a few minutes
    then add the noodles and the rest of the stuff from the bowl. Add
    the chilli (sambal), soy sauce and pepper.
    
    this quantity serves three or four.
    
    We use sambal instead of the chilli.
    
    
    
    Pete
    
    
    

    Ok, I'll bite, what's a capsicum?
    
    --Louise

    
    Green or red peppers which are the size of an apple I guess. the
    ones we get here are mild/sweet and can be used in salads, kebabs
    to give a sweet spicey taste effect to the meals (the flavour lingers
    in your mouth a bit).
    
    pete
    

    Actually, correct me if I'm wrong anybody, capsicum is the more
    or less scientific name for the chile family. So capsicum could
    mean anything from tiny fiery chinese chiles to large mild ancho
    chiles. The active ingredient in chiles (what makes them so fiery)
    is a substance called capsaicin.
    
    For more info you can check the notesfile 2B::CHILI
    Press KP7 to add the conference to your notebook.
    
     - Mark (a chile addict)

    How about good old Shepherd's Pie..
    
    Brown ground beef with onion (can add onion soup if desired)
    Can of corn (or cooked frozen)
    Mashed potatoes (instant aren't too bad)
    
    In a casserole dish place groud beef on bottom.
    Place corn as 2nd layer
    tob off with Mashed potatoes
    
    Bake about 30-45 minutes on 350

    
    
    	See note 713.9 for another recipe for Shepherd's pie. I have tried
    	that recipe and it was pretty tasty. 
    
    					Jim

    How about an "as spicy as you like" KOFTE. This is a very common
    Turkish dish. It is very easy to make. You can broil it, barbecue
    it, or even fry it, and serve with rice/noddles/potatoes, and salad, 
    or anything else. If fried, you can even it cold, wonderful filling
    for a sandwich.
    
    Here is the way I prepare it. I am bad with measurements, I just
    put enough of everything. But I will try to be precise. If you like
    your food real spicy, put more cumin and black pepper than stated
    below.
                                  
    1.5 lbs. lean ground beef (there is enough fat even in lean beef)
    1 large egg
    3 slices of white bread (better if you have not so fresh French
    or Italian bread) 
    1 ts salt
    1 ts black pepper
    1 ts cumin
    1 ts curry powder
    1 ts oregano or oregano powder
    1.5 ts garlic puree or fresh pressed garlic
    a handful of fresh parsley, chopped
    
    
    Wet the bread generously with water.
    DO NOT squeeze out the excess water. Crumble the bread as small
    as you can. Mix all of the ingredients real well. I add about 1/4
    to 1/2 cup of warm water to this mixture as well, because I don't
    like the KOFTE to turn out too dry. 
    
    Make patties of medium size, and broil or barbecue them. Broiling
    takes about 10-15 minutes depending on your oven. If you want to
    fry them instead, roll them into cylinders 1.5 inches log, 
    and 0.5 - 1 inches in diameter.
    
    My mother adds fresh grated tomatoes (about 1 large) and irmik
    (it is similar to FARINA) to the mixture and tastes good. 
    
    
    Enjoy

    I was visiting my friend's daughter
    in Florida, she's originally from El Salvador, and she made this 
    for supper.  I enjoyed it so much and decided to try to make it. I
    belive I came really close. Also, I let it sit over night in the
    refrigerator which, blended the flavors.
    
      Rhina's Spanish Ground Beef
    
    l lb. of hamburger (or as desired)
    l small onion chopped
    2-3 T tomato paste
    1 bouillon cube
    1/8 t red pepper flakes
    1 pkg. Saxon seasoning (Goya)
    1/4 t oregano
    1/4 t cumin
    1 sm can of V8 or tomato juice
    salt to taste
    1/4 cup Spanish olives (green w/pimento)
    1/4 cup raisins
    l potato peeled and chunked.
    
    Brown beef (drain if needed), add onion during browning, add remaining
    ingredients and cook slowly until potato is cooked through and all
    flavors are blended.  Serve over white rice.  
    
    We loved it!
    

    This is a bit late, but I've just found the cooks file.
    
    How about what us Scots call Mince and Tatties (Mince and Potatoes).
    
    Brown minced beef in a pot, add 1 beef stock cube along with water
    (depends on how much gravy you like).
    
    Add one diced onion and one diced carrot and a couple of teaspoons
    of gravy ganules to thicken.
    
    Once cooked through this is served with mashed potatoes (taties),
    you can also add peas to this or have them separate.
    
    It's quick and easy and nice to come home to on a cold night.
    
    
    Regards
    Tracy-anne
    
    p.s. In the old days my Gran used to crack and egg on top while
    it was cooking - yum!