Beef

This Instant Pot American Goulash & Green Beans is a healthy one-pot meal that is easy to throw together with elbow macaroni, ground beef, veggies, & more. First off, I want to clarify right off the bat that this recipe is for American Goulash, not Hungarian. Those are two very different things, so I don’t …

This Instant Pot Pasta Fagioli Recipe is packed full of meat, pasta, vegetables, and beans for a healthy and hearty soup. A good friend introduced me to this soup years ago and now every time I make this recipe, I remember the two of us hovered over a pot in her kitchen with tasting spoons …

This Bacon and Egg Cheeseburger combines the best of both of the breakfast and dinner worlds into one amazing burger, perfect for a Father’s Day cookout! After many (many) hours of driving, Boots and I have arrived in Colorado to spend some much needed time with my family. We’re headed up to our family cabin …

I am officially moved into my new place! Well, I guess that depends on your definition of “moved in.” All of my stuff is here, but most of it doesn’t have a home just yet! My kitchen counters are still littered with candy molds, baking chips, and moose paraphernalia. I own 3, yes three, sets …

I don’t know who to credit the brilliance of the jack-o-lantern carved bell pepper to (seeing as it’s here, here, here, and here, just to name a few), but I hate missing the boat on fun trends! I’m always late to jump on the fun fad bandwagon because I’m always worried I’ll be the one …

I was not one of the cool kids growing up. I had curly bangs that stuck out in every direction. And I brushed them, so I had an out-of-control mini ‘fro goin’ on pretty much all the time. I wasn’t a jock, I wasn’t a partier, I didn’t wear the cool brands of clothes. I …

I have been asked to make carne asada for months now.  It’s a really big deal here in Tucson. We have a bunch of drive thru Mexican food places and you can pretty much bet on them having carne asada tacos, burritos, tortas, fries, nachos, etc. When I was planning Meat Week, I kept trying …

It’s the last day of Meat Week! *sniff* I miss the burgers already. Today’s recipe is inspired by the local cuisine here.  Sonoran hotdogs are kind of a big thing here, and pretty much only here. They even featured them on the Tucson edition of Man vs. Food! A Sonoran hotdog is a bacon-wrapped hotdog …

My current favorite restaurant is Applebee’s. We usually try to find small, quirky, mom and pop places to eat when we’re not grabbing fast food, but Applebee’s has a few things that I just love. #1 – Red Apple Sangria. I love the stuff. They put a cute little toothpick with little balls of apple …

It’s day 2 of Meat Week! Day 1 – Jalapeno Popper Burgers Day 2 – Rodeo Cheeseburgers Have you ever had Burger King’s Rodeo Cheeseburgers?  I was introduced to them years ago by an old boyfriend. He was all kinds of excited to introduce me to one of his favorite burgers ever, but when we …

Welcome to Meat Week! Like I said yesterday, the inspiration for this week came from a Destination America rep asking me to participate in their Meat Week, but I loved the idea so much that I decided to make it Meat Week here on So Very Blessed, too! My coworker and I were talking the …

My mom did 99.9% of the cooking in our house as I was growing up, but there are three things my dad is the master of in the kitchen – frying the corn tortillas for our family’s traditional stacked enchiladas, melting cheese on Saltines in the toaster oven, and making Green Chile Casserole. This is …

A hearty, comfort food meal made with rice and ground beef, then festively baked right in a pumpkin!  A few posts ago, I told you all that I didn’t like pumpkin until recently.  That was very, very true. But, whenever my mom would make this for us growing up, I would always ask her to …

In honor of my German heritage, here is my favourite krautburgers recipe. Delicious buns stuffed with ground beef and cabbage. Did you know Oktoberfest started last weekend?  I had no clue. I had the silly notion that Oktoberfest started in October. Crazy, I know. Anyways…in honor of my German heritage (note my big German schnoz!), …

It dropped below 90 degrees here in Tucson this week, which obviously means that Fall is on its way – cacti will start turning orange and losing their needles, the temperature will drop, and it’s time to break out the comfort food…right? Okay, so cacti don’t actually turn orange and lose their needles and the …

I have a million and one things to post about, but haven’t actually had time to sit down and type it all up yet!  For not having anything planned for the weekend, I sure was busy!  Good busy.  Exciting busy.  🙂 In the mean time… I’m trying to organize a recipe binder to help myself …

Enchilada Pizza uses a crescent roll crust and is topped with ground beef refried beans, lettuce, cheese, and more for an easy weeknight Mexican dinner. I seriously miss blogging about food. Cooking food. Baking food. I guess technically, all I’ve done for the past 15 days is blog about food, but listing juice ingredients is …

Oh my goodness…this pepper filling is so good!  It has just a hint of spice (just increase the cayenne if you want more!) and the rest of the ingredients meld together to make an incredibly delicious flavor explosion in your mouth. Now, for the peppers themselves…different people like different textures.  I prefer to just bake …

I love crockpot recipes. I don’t use them as often as I should, but I love throwing everything in one pot in the morning and coming home to a house that smells wonderful and having a fully cooked meal in the evening. The problem is the prep in the morning thing. I don’t do mornings. …

This is another recipe that my mom has made for as long as I can remember.  It’s such a good base recipe, because it’s easy to cater to different tastes.  If you feel like chicken, use chicken (and you could change the cream of celery soup to cream of chicken!).  If you’re out of chicken, …