Tart and tangy beef on a bun simmers browned ground chuck with onions in a sweet-sour sauce of ketchup, brown sugar, cider vinegar, Worcestershire, Dijon, and honey. Sloppy joes with real bite.
Quick one-pot ground beef and rice dish with mushrooms, soy sauce, and beef consommé. This easy weeknight dinner cooks in 15 minutes and gets topped with sour cream and toasted almonds.
Put the baking pans away and use the crockpot to cook this succulent meat loaf your family will enjoy.
From McCall's Great American recipe card collection, Our Italian Heritage 5e, a baked meatball lasagna.
Baked stuffed manicotti the old-school way: pasta tubes packed with a beef and mozzarella filling, blanketed in a homemade tomato sauce simmered an hour with fennel seed and herbs, then baked bubbling under more cheese.
The Midwestern classic: ground beef and onion layered with sour cream, cream soups, and cheddar cheese, topped with crispy tater tots baked until golden and bubbling.
For starters, the water, beer and sugar take this recipe in the wrong direction. Substitute these ingredients with red wine. Also, forget the pork - this has not flavor in chili. Just add more beef. These small changes would have won them $40,000. I made those changes and had people chasing me for the recipe afterwards.