Ideas for Using Ground Beef...Please!

Those items are usually the ones I make also. however you could try goulash made with macaroni. They have a coobook I' sure with differnet recipies for hamburger. i know there is a 365 ways to cook hamburger book like there is for chicken.

You can do shepards pie http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_22590,00.html Salisbury Steak Hamburger Steak Fried Rice Taco pie Italian wedding soup

My mother makes a really good dish with ground beef, spices, whatever-she-wants-in-the-sauce, vegetables, and pasta, basically a homemade Hamburger Helper. How's that sound?

You could saute a bit of diced bell pepper and onion, then add the hamburger and brown it. Then sprinkle onion soup mix over it and add some flour and stir to make a roux. Finally add some water to make a gravy out of all of it. If you only add a little water so it's more a "wet meat mix", then you could make a loose meat sandwich (kind of like a sloppy joe without tomato sauce). If you add more water for more gravy, then you can eat that over mashed potatoes. If you make the gravy and add peas and carrots, then you can top it with mashed potatoes for shepherd's pie. Add some sliced mushrooms and some sour cream (or cream of mushroom soup and sour cream) and eat it over cooked noodles for hamburger stroganoff. If you don't put flour in it but add tomato sauce instead, then you've got the basics for sloppy joes (just add other seasonings until it tastes right to you, if the onion soup mix alone doesn't do it). Or add enough tomato sauce so it looks like a tomato hamburger gravy and season it with taco sauce, then add cooked macaroni for a Mexican-flavored dish. Or, you could brown the meat, season it with salt and pepper, and add the flour for the roux, but instead of water, add milk for a milk gravy you would use like sausage gravy or dried beef gravy....over toast, over biscuits or over fried potatoes. You can also add grated cheese to the milk gravy and mix in cooked macaroni (shells, elbow, whatever you want) for a cheeseburger-mac meal. Another thing I've had and did try to make once was a pinwheel biscuit thing (for lack of a real name) where the meat was cooked and mixed with the onion soup mix and biscuit dough was rolled out into a long rectangle. The meat mix (after draining) is placed on the biscuit dough and then rolled up into a loaf and baked at 350 for an hour or so, until the biscuit dough is cooked and browned. Then it is served sliced with gravy and all the other sides. It tastes pretty good, but I made a mess of it. I've had it made by someone else and it's really very good.

I toss some oyster sauce in them and stir fry it as a topping for fresh tofu. Occasionally, I'll use it as a pasta sauce but not with a tomato base - instead, I'll cook it with onions, beef stock and add some thickening. I also put them with some eggs, salt and pepper to taste, and then fry them up like meat patties. Hubby likes those with sweet chilli sauce. :) Have you tried deep frying your meatballs - add some spring onions, Chinese mushrooms and turnip/green apples into the meat with some seasoning and flour to make it into a dough-like mix and then deep fry! My guy friends all love it, especially when I shape them into tiny popcorn like balls. :p

Fries with the works - Fries, hamburger meat, gravy, peas and cheese (optional) Shephard's pie - Hamburger meat on bottom, cream corn in the middle, potatoes on top Hamburger soup - My mother makes it all the time. There's a lot of stuff that goes in it like potatoes, hamburger meat, carrots, barley. The sauce is mostly crushed tomatoes, tomato paste. I don't have the recipe but I'm sure there's a lot like it somewhere on the internet

I usually prefer to eat my meat with vegetables. I would usually saute the ground beef with garlic and onions, and then when its almost done, I would throw in shredded cabbage, diced carrots, diced potatoes and peas. To add to the flavoring, I would add some tomato paste. Seasoned the whole thing, and when all the vegetables are cooked, the dish is done. Sometimes, I vary the vegetables depending on what is available, but that is my most common way of incorporating vegetables with my meat. Happy cooking!

In the responses I never saw a response with the way I do ground beef. I cook the beef and drain it. I add beef gravy and add cooked rice. Then I either serve it that way or add vegetables to the mixture. It is delicious and my husband realy likes it. And it is also very easy to do.