Beef with Onions, Pineapple, and BBQ sauce.

All recipes in this blog are my own. When cooking, I very rarely measure anything at all, so I'm afraid that some of the amounts I mention here are just educated guesses :) Use your best judgement.

What you'll need:

- 1 pound of ground beef.
- 1 small can of pineapple chunks. 
-  4 ounces of BBQ sauce.
- 1 big onion.
- 4 ounces of Thai coconut cream.
- 1/2 cup of fine breadcrumbs.

- 1 tbsp of dried spinach or parsley flakes. (optional)

How to cook it.

This is a really simple recipe but it's delicious, I promise. It only takes about 15 minutes from start to finish so it's great for a quick meal.

1) Open the can of pineapple chunks and pour a little bit of the juice in a pan. I am using this juice instead of oil which makes the recipe a bit healthier or at least I think so :)

2) Break up the ground beef and add it to the pan. I cook it on medium heat to medium-high.

3) Chop the onion in small pieces and add it to the meat.

4) While it's cooking, add the breadcrumbs, BBQ sauce, and half of the pineapple chunks as well as some more of the juice from the can with the pineapple. 

5) Last, add the coconut cream. 

6) Let it all cook through, add the spinach or parsley flakes, and it's ready to serve.

That's really it. It's super easy, it's fast and it's delicious.

A few things to keep in mind

- You can add as many or as few pineapple chunks as you feel comfortable with. I use half a can, and I transfer the other half to a plastic container and put it in the fridge to make something else with it later.

- My ground beef is incredibly lean. I can't even cook it without using oil or some kind of moisture like the pineapple juice. This is because my Amish friend raises the cow, I don't buy meat at the store. If you have ground beef that's fatty, you might want to cook it first and drain the fat.

- Thai coconut cream (not to be confused with coconut milk) comes in a 13.6 ounce can, it can be found in the Asian aisle at Walmart, at any Asian store, or on Amazon. Walmart is often out of stock on it, so I usually order it from Amazon. It's actually not more expensive than at Walmart. I open the can and transfer the content to a small canning jar with a cover and put it in the fridge. It's excellent in stir fry, soup, and all kinds of sauces. It needs to be stirred up very well before each use.

- The spinach or parsley flakes are just to make it look fancy.

Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese Sauce

 All recipes in this blog are my own.

This is one of my favorite recipes :)
Please note that I never measure anything at all, so the amounts are not exact but should be pretty close.

What you need:

- 3 large potatoes
- 1 standard package of bacon
- a big head of broccoli
- butter (about 1/4 of a stick)
- flour (about 2 tbsp)
- salt 1/4 tsp (optional)
- pepper 1/4 tsp
- nutmeg 1/4 tsp (optional)
- 1 cup of milk
- mustard 1 tbsp
- 1 1/2 cups of grated cheese 

It takes me about 40 minutes to put this together, and I'll give you the sequence of actions. This feeds 4 people and it's well worth the time.

- Peel and wash the potatoes, and cut them in thick slices, each slice being a half to 3/4 inch thick.
- Boil the potatoes.
- While the potatoes are boiling, wash the broccoli, cut it up and boil it.
- Cut the bacon into thin pieces and fry it.
- Turn the oven on warm, just warm.

- When the potatoes are ready, drain them and put them in a large baking dish. Keep them warm in the oven.
- Drain the broccoli but keep the water you used to boil it.
- Add the broccoli to the potatoes in the oven.
- Drain the grease off the fried bacon. I keep the grease and freeze it to be used for popcorn making some other time.
- Add the bacon to the mix in the oven, dividing everything evenly across the baking dish.

OK now you just need to make a cheese sauce and that's it.

- Put the butter in a pan and melt it.
- Add the flour to make a roux
- Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and mustard. 
- Add milk and keep stirring. It should be pretty thick. 
- Add some of the water in which you boiled the broccoli, add a little at a time until you have a smooth looking sauce.
- Add the grated cheese, stir one more time and pour the sauce over the contents of the dish in the oven.
- If you want to be fancy, you can also put some grated cheese over the top of it all and put it under the broiler until brown.

Serve and enjoy.

Stuffed Peppers Recipe

 All recipes in this blog are my own.

Stuffed Peppers.

What you need:

2 peppers
1 pound chopped meat.
1 large onion
1 small can of tomato paste
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp pepper
a cup of breadcrumbs
2 tbsp mustard
2 tbsp parsley flakes or dried spinach flakes.

Preparation:

Cut the peppers in half length-wise and remove the seeds and the white stuff.
Mix all the ingredients together (except the peppers of course)
Stuff the peppers with the mixture. There will be some left. The leftover can be shaped like a little meatloaf and can go in the pan with the stuffed peppers.
Put everything in a baking dish. I usually like the dish with parchment paper since I don't use oil when I can avoid it.
Cover with aluminum foil.
Bake in the over at 375 degrees for about a half hour.
Remove the aluminum foil after a half hour and bake for another half hour or until ready, it could be less than an hour total, just keep an eye on it.

Note:

The amounts as well as cooking times are approximate since I never set a timer and I never measure anything, so use your judgement.