{"id":1978,"date":"2014-01-12T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T22:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:05:53","slug":"250-cookbooks-hamburger-ground-meats-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: Hamburger & Ground Meats Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #51: Hamburger & Ground Meats Recipes.<\/em> Better Homes and Gardens, Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa, 1980.<\/p>\n

\"Hamburgers<\/a>Hamburger ideas: More! This is the second hamburger-recipe cookbook<\/a> I’ve covered in this blog. Ground meats are a mainstay in my freezer, great for easy and tasty mid-week meals. I’m always on the lookout for new recipes to try, even if I only cook the recipe once. “Variety is the spice of life.”<\/p>\n

I’m going to keep this cookbook. Sure, it’s over 30 years old, but people ate well back then, too. I want to try the Crepe-Style Manicotti, Swedish Burgers, Greek-Style Crepes, and Sausage Quiche. I found a recipe for “main dish crepes” that I had been looking for for years. I was surprised to find recipes that incorporate feta cheese – I didn’t discover feta cheese until about ten years ago. I also found a recipe for “oven meatballs” that I think I used to make a lot. Baked meatballs can be low-fat, and meatballs freeze well, great for quick thawing to pop into a spaghetti sauce.<\/p>\n

For this blog, I chose “Hearty Mexican Casserole”.<\/p>\n

\"Hearty<\/a>It wasn’t until I was halfway through cooking this dish that I realized it was a lot like the “Wyoming-Mexican Casserole” that I have been making for years. Sure enough, it is exactly<\/em> the same recipe that I typed it onto an index card in the 1970s. I probably clipped it from a Better Homes and Gardens magazine. I remember it being touted as “John Wayne’s favorite casserole”. When I google that phrase today I come up with a different recipe, one with chiles and eggs and evaporated milk. I guess I was wrong about John Wayne.<\/p>\n

I’m killing two birds with one stone with this blog entry, sharing a favorite recipe and<\/em> covering one of my 250 cookbooks.<\/p>\n

Hearty Mexican Casserole<\/strong><\/a>
\nor, “Wyoming-Mexican Casserole”
\nserves about 4<\/em><\/p>\n