Category Archives: Beef

Grilled hamburger and salad. 4/9/25

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Beebamom

John cooked the burgers and I made the salad. Great dinner in less than a half hour!

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Grilled steak, potatoes, and asparagus. 4/5/25

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Beebamom

John cooked the steak on the grill perfectly. He also put a little char on the potatoes I had microwaved earlier. The asparagus cooked in a little water and butter. This was an easy dinner full of flavor.

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Corned beef and cabbage. 3/17/25

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Beebamom

We enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day with this traditional dish. The recipe we used is this one from NYTimes Cooking with the exception of omitting the glaze in Step Four.

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Penne with meat sauce. 3/11/25

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Beebamom

We were supposed to be having chicken enchiladas for dinner tonight. Sarah and I were tasked with picking a rotisserie chicken from Costco. But when we got there the chicken cupboard was bare and so we had to come up … Continue reading →

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Stuffed red bell peppers and salad. 3/5/25

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Beebamom

In order to be economical and efficient I browned a pound of ground beef and made a beefy tomato sauce first. Then I took half of the sauce and packaged it up to be frozen for a pasta meal in … Continue reading →

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Grilled steak, grilled potato, and broccoli. 3/1/25

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Beebamom

This is such a simple meal to make. John does the grilling and I take care of the potato and broccoli. Before the potato can go on the grill I microwave it until it is almost cooked through. The grilling … Continue reading →

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Happy Lunar New Year! 1/29/25 The Year of the Snake!

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Beebamom

Lots of folks here in Northern California are celebrating Lunar New Year. Since we are a family who likes to share in the celebrations of lots of cultures, we decide to make a holiday dinner of Asian treats. We started … Continue reading →

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Grilled hamburgers and salad. 1/27/25

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Beebamom

It’s chilly out but not too cold to grill hamburgers! We had a summer dinner at the end of January. John did a great job grilling our burgers to medium rare. I made a fresh salad to go along side. … Continue reading →

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Grilled steak, sweet potato, cauliflower. 1/13/25

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Beebamom

Tonight we are having a grill and sheet pan meal. John grilled the steak to perfection and put the sweet potatoes that I had microwaved on the grill to give them some char. I pumped the oven up to 550F, … Continue reading →

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Penne and meatballs. 11/23/24

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Beebamom

Basically this dinner was all short cuts. I used Rao’s tomato basil sauce and Rosina’s frozen meatballs. Usually I dump the cooked pasta into the sauce but since I had a lot of sauce and a lot of meatballs I … Continue reading →

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