Taco 🌮 Salad 🥗

Taco salad is pretty easy.  Start with lettuce, then add ground meat and end with Catalina. Add what you want in between. Here are the combos I have done lately. 

Lettuce 🥬 , tomatoes 🍅, salsa, corn 🌽 , meat, catalina 

Lettuce 🥬 , Fritos, salsa, meat

Lettuce 🥬 , salsa, Catalina, cheese, meat Doritos 

Spaghetti Sauce

I can’t believe I have not put this up until now. 

So without further ado, here is my recipe for spaghetti. I make it vegetarian for my canning, then I add meat when I am ready for dinner. I do this because when I canned this the first time with the meat, it seamed to dry out the meat. So now I add that after. 

Ingredients

1 cup Celery 
1 cup Carrots 🥕 
1 Onion 🧅 
1 cup Corn 🌽 
4 cups of tomato 🍅 (sauce)
1 Garlic 🧄 (to taste) I use a whole head 
1 tbsp of rosemary 
1 tbsp of Italian seasoning 
1 pound of Ground Meat 🥩 

Add it all to the pot if you are going to eat it and not cann it. Cook until you can put a fork in the carrot. If you are going to cann it, do not add the meat. 

For canning, process in pressure canner. 

Clean pint jars, lids and rings in hot soapy water.  

Prepare your preserve. 

Fill jars with 1 inch head space, place lids and rings properly. Place in canner. 

Vent canner properly. Pressurize. Process for 55 min (adjust for your elevation). 

Cool canner. down to 0 psi or until the canner looses all pressure. 

When done. Take out and put on a rack. Let it sit until cooled. (About 12 hrs) When cooled, check to see if it has sealed properly. Look here to see how, and all other important info on canning. 

Mushroom & Onion BBQ Burger 🍔

 PREP TIME: 1 hr      

COOK TIME: 20 min      

SERVES: 4

Ingredients 

- 1/4 cup of butter

- 2 onions sweet 🧅 onion or yellow

- About 3 cups of mushrooms 🍄 

- 2 tblsp Maple BBQ rub

- 1 pound Hamburger meat 🥩 

- 4 slices of Swiss cheese

- BBQ sauce

- 4 Toasted Hamburger buns

Directions

 Place 1/8th of the butter in a skillet and caramelize your onions.       It’s a lot at first but it goes down a lot. 

Use the other 1/8th butter to sauté 

the mushrooms.

Mix the rub into the hamburger 

meat and make 4 patties.

I make one at a time, But if you 

have room for more than add more.

On my skillet at medium heat it takes

3 min on each side to be perfect, 140°.

Put the cheese on the last minute and 

a half. Pay attention to your temp for your Stove top or grill to get the right temp for the type of burger you want. At 120° the burger is rare, at 130° it’s a medium rare, at 140° it’s medium, at 150° it’s a medium well and add 160° it’s well done. At 140° there is no pink. 

Meanwhile toast your bun.

When patty is done place on your bun. Then add BBQ sauce, then onions, then mushrooms and 

then your top bun. 

Serve with your choosing; chips, 

coleslaw, salad, potato salad, fries, 

veggies, corn on the cob, macaroni 

salad, Broccoli salad, Mac n cheese, 

BBQ baked beans.

8. Serve and enjoy

Cheese Burger on a skillet

I like to season my patties with Garlic powder, seasoning salt and onion powder. Sometimes I add chopped onion in there too. I use 93/7 hamburger meat. Most people use 80/20 for the fat, but I try to make things healthier when I can. Plus everyone always compliments our burgers. So we must be doing it right! I make 4 patties from a pound of meat. 

Use a nice skillet  to make sure you get that nice brown caramelization on the patty. It gives it great flavor.  Do not touch it for 4 min then flip and leave for another 4 min. That will give you a no pink patty. If you want it medium then do 3 min by 3 min. Rare then 2 by 2. Always check by temp as well to see if its where you want it. 

Melt the cheese with a metal bowl on top or a lid for the last 30 seconds. Add the toppings of your choice. This time I added;

Toppings

Lettuce 🥬 

Roma Tomatoes 🍅 from my garden

Ketchup 

Mayonnaise 

 

(Toppings to think of down below)

Make sure to toast your bun. I did mine in the toaster on the bagel setting, but if you are doing this on the grill just set it on the grill. 

Toppings to think of

Bacon 🥓 

Red, white or sweet Onion 🧅 

Caramelized onions

Peppers 🫑 

Pineapple 🍍 

Basil 🌿 

Pickles 

Slaw

Avocado 

Mushrooms 🍄 

Goat Cheese

Egg

Ginger

Jalapeños 

Worcestershire 

Blue Cheese 🧀 

BBQ sauce

Mustard

Ground Beef Tastadas

 Ingrediants

Black Beans 1/2 cup

Corn 1/2 cup

4% or 7% Lean Ground Beef 8 oz

Green Onions 2

Lime 1/2

Green or Red enchilada sauce 3 fl oz

Tomato 1

Shredded Cheddar Jack Cheese 1/2 cup

Sour Cream 1 oz

Whole Wheat Tostada shells

Makes 6 Tastadas

Instructions

Prepare your ingredients. Chop the green onions, juice the lime, Cut the tomato small, drain the black beans and the corn.

Start the skillet or braiser and add a teaspoon of olive oil and add the meat. Cook until brown, about 3-4 min. Add white portion on the green onions and corn to the meat and combine. Stir occasionally for about 2 to 3 min. Add in black beans, a pinch of salt for flavor and combine. Stir in enchilada sauce, lime juice (keeping a tsp for lime crema) and half the tomato. Remove from burner. Top the mixture with the cheese then let it sit with the lid on until cheese melts should be just a couple min because everything is still hot. 

During the time that this is melting, mix the sour cream, about a tsp of lime juice, half of the green onions and a pinch of salt and pepper to make you Lime Crema.

Take your Tastada shells and scoop your mixture on top. Plate it. Add some fresh tomatoes on top with some green onions, a squirt of lime juice and some lime crema.

BON APPETIT!!!