beef

Grilled Tequila Steak Pizza

Jun 19, 2019

This post sponsored by Beef Loving Texans.

Grilled Tequila Steak Pizza – steak marinated in tequila, lime juice, and chipotle peppers and grilled to perfection. Layered on a grilled flour tortilla with cheese and a delicious corn and tomato topping. Easy and quick enough for a weeknight dinner!

I’ve never really called myself a Texan. I mean, I just moved here 4 years ago, I don’t own boots, and I’m definitely not a Cowboys fan.

But a couple weeks ago I recognized someone’s truck because of the cowboy hat on the dash.

Pretty sure that was the moment I became a Texan.

And one thing I’ve learned over the last 4 years is that Texans love beef.

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Sloppy Joe Sliders

Jun 11, 2019

Sloppy Joe Sliders – an easy way to serve sloppy joes to a crowd! Sloppy joe meat and cheddar cheese on Hawaiian rolls and covered in the most delicious glaze. Great for a weeknight dinner, a party, or tailgating!

If you love Hawaiian roll sliders like these Sloppy Joe Sliders, you’re going to love my Bacon Cheeseburger Sliders and Chicken Parmesan Sliders!

Hi guys!

We had our first lake weekend this past weekend. I can’t believe it took us almost 2 weeks into June but it’s been weirdly cold and it’s rainy and cloudy and just not lake weather. But we finally got out there and it was great, as always.

We did had to leave early after one of my children sliced their leg open and in an absolute panic, I couldn’t remember the name of my insurance company to figure out which urgent care near the lake accepted it. So I drove alllll the way back to the one by our house because I know they take it (thanks to a head injury a few months ago) and by the time we got there, it had basically stopped bleeding. But ugh, it was gross.

You guys, I am not cut out to have boys. When I tell you I panicked, I mean I panicked hard.

Anyway. I have these Sloppy Joe Sliders for you today because who doesn’t love a Hawaiian roll slider?! I love that they can be an easy weeknight meal or you can totally serve them at a party!

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Korean BBQ Meatball Lettuce Wraps

Apr 27, 2018

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cooked Perfect® Fresh Meatballs for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

Quick and easy dinners don’t have to be boring! Korean BBQ Meatball Lettuce Wraps are ready in about 20 minutes and the whole family will love them!

Hi guys. I’m going to share my current obsession with you today.

You know how much I love all things Korean bbq, right?

Like, if I absolutely had to pick my favorite food – we’re talking last meal here – it would be Korean bbq.

I’ve even got my kids hooked on it which on one hand is good but on the other? I don’t wanna share my bulgogi fries with anyone! Not even my own children.

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Bacon Cheeseburger Gnocchi

Jan 17, 2018

Bacon Cheeseburger Gnocchi – Everything you love about cheeseburgers in a gnocchi dish! Cheesy gnocchi tossed with a homemade burger sauce, ground beef, and topped with crispy bacon and chopped pickles.

Hi guys.

I’ve put pickles on something you’re not supposed to put pickles on again.

I’m sorry.

But listen, I’m having this thing with burgers right now. I took my kids to In-n-Out for our Christmas Eve dinner – did I tell you guys that? We defininitely had animal fries and double doubles in between making cookies for Santa.

And I’ve been thinking about burgers since then but, you know, New Years resolutions or whatever. So going into this long weekend I told myself I’d get In-n-Out by myself on Tuesday if I was good the entire weekend and then you know what happened yesterday?

Snow day.

A. SNOW. DAY.

In central Texas.

It didn’t snow. It was 19 degrees and I’m happy I didn’t have to go anywhere but I either needed snow or a burger in my life.

Maybe today if it warms up enough for me to leave the house.

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Doughnut Burgers with Candied Bacon

May 23, 2016

Doughnut Burgers with Candied Bacon – the most amazing burger you’ll ever eat! It’s the ultimate sweet and salty combination!

How is it Monday already?

I’m not ready!

Let’s go back to Friday night!

Anyway.

I’m back from Salt Lake City – got in late last night. I had the best time at the conference and met so many amazing bloggers that I’d only ever talked to on the interwebs. Plus, Nicole and I got matching tattoos.

That’s a normal thing to do on a work trip, right?

Right?!

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Sloppy Joe Tater Tot Casserole

Apr 27, 2016

Sloppy Joe Tater Tot Casserole – easy weeknight meal! Ground beef or turkey in a delicious sloppy joe sauce topped with cheese and tater tots! Kids love this one!

Originally posted March 2014. Photos updated April 2016.

I know. It’s way too early in the morning to be talking about things like tater tot casseroles.

I’m sorry.

I was sick all weekend – all weekend! – and didn’t have time to get a bunch of yummy things baked and photographed. I made this banana bread crumb cake and it’s delicious and amazing but I couldn’t stop coughing long enough to take pictures. Being sick is the worst.

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Bacon and Pimento Cheese Burgers

Aug 26, 2015

Bacon and Pimento Cheese Burgers – delicious (and easy!) homemade pimento cheese on top burgers with crispy bacon!

Something you may not know about me is that one of my favorite foods is pimento cheese. I don’t know how or why but I have loved it for as long as I can remember.

Almost every week when I do my big grocery shopping trip, I buy a tub of pimento cheese and a bag of those long pretzel rods and then I dip the pretzels in the cheese and that’s all I eat until it’s gone.

I mean, is that not one of the weirder things for someone to be obsessed with?

Pimento cheese on pretzels? And not just pretzels, it has to be the pretzel rods.

So when my dear friend Kita asked me to participate in Burger Month again this year, I knew Bacon and Pimento Cheese Burgers were happening.

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Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza

Jul 02, 2015

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza – homemade pizza with burger sauce, ground beef, crispy bacon, 2 kinds of cheese, and pickles! The perfect way to change up pizza night!

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m obsessed with bacon. I mean, I’m always obsessed with bacon but right now, I’m super obsessed.

One day last week I had bacon for every meal. There was a sweet potato and bacon hash for breakfast, I fried up some bacon for my lunch salad, and then for dinner I had bacon in my brussels sprouts. #paleo

I will put bacon on anything and everything. Even cake.

One of my favorite ways to enjoy bacon is on pizza. If you’ve ever seen any of my pizza Instagrams (they happen frequently), you know that I order my pizza exactly the same way every time. Barbecue sauce, ham, pineapple, tons of jalapeños, and BACON.

No one ever wants to share a pizza with me and I can’t figure out why.

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza!

Anyway, I’ve been switching things up recently and have found myself in love with Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza.

Except no one does a good cheeseburger sauce so I’ve been making this myself.

Cheeseburger sauce?

Yeah. Just ketchup and thousand island dressing. But it’s so good.

I’ve been using Wright® Brand Bacon for all my bacon needs. It’s so delicious and a great value at Walmart. Wright® Brand Bacon is a bigger better bacon so it’s perfect for lunch, dinner, or hey, even cake. I won’t judge you.

So this this pizza I used the cheeseburger sauce, the Wright® Brand Bacon, some ground beef, shredded cheddar and Monterey Jack, and topped it off with pickles.

This pizza is so delicious. My kids loved it, I loved it, there was none left for my husband to try. You know how we do things around here.

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza

Ingredients

1 unbaked pizza dough
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/2 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup diced onion
1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup Thousand Island dressing
1/2 cup ketchup
6 slices Wright Brand® Bacon cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup sharp cheddar shredded
1/2 cup Monterey Jack shredded
1/2 cup diced bread and butter pickles

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450F. Shape the dough into a large circle and place on a parchment-covered baking sheet.
In a large pan, heat oven oil over medium-high heat. Add ground beef and onion. Cook, breaking up the meat as you go, until the onions are translucent and no pink remains in the meat. Add worcerstershire sauce and stir to combine. Let cool slightly.
To make the sauce, whisk together Thousand Island and ketchup. Spread this sauce over the pizza crust. Sprinkle the meat mixture over the sauce, followed by the bacon and shredded cheeses.
Bake 10 - 12 minutes or until the pizza crust is browned and cooked through. Sprinkle with pickles after you remove it from oven.

Things you may need for this recipe:

: Pizza Stone

: Red Star Yeast Platinum

: OXO Pizza Cutter

Want more homemade pizza recipes?

Fig, Burrata, and Prosciutto Pizza

Pesto Sausage Pizza with Mushrooms and Olives

Barbecue Chicken Pizza

This is a sponsored post on behalf of Wright® Brand Bacon. All opinions are 100% my own.

Paleo Meatloaf

Apr 14, 2015

My husband and I have this really annoying habit of putting a “P” in front of any food that we make Paleo. We have entire conversations about picken puggets or papple pauce or, like this recipe, peatloaf.

(I don’t recommend this when making Paleo cornbread. That’s a good way to make things awkward real quick.)

This is our favorite Paleo Meatloaf recipe. If you’ve never made a Paleo meatloaf before, you will not understand the level of frustration that comes with it. You think it would be simple, right? I mean, the name “meatloaf” sounds like it would be Paleo. It’s a loaf. Of meat. How is that not Paleo?

I have tried dozens of different recipes and they’ve all turned out crumbly and dry or just plain gross. In most Paleo recipes, you use almond flour in place of the soaked bread or breadcrumbs that you would typically use in a regular meatloaf and since almond flour is denser, it just doesn’t work out. This one does include almond flour but since I mix only 1 cup of almond flour with 2 pounds of meat, it stays nice and moist. Because of that, you can get away with using super lean ground beef if you want.

It’s a pretty standard meatloaf recipe – just the beef, almond flour, onion, and a couple eggs. And bacon, of course. Always bacon. Bacon inside the meatloaf and bacon on top! If you are feeling extra ambitious, I totally recommend mixing up some Paleo ketchup to go on top. If you are lazy like me, mustard works just as well!

I usually make cauliflower mashed potatoes or cauliflower rice to serve alongside the meatloaf. Add some green veggies (Brussels sprouts or asparagus are my picks!) and it makes for really good, healthy comfort food.

I’m the Paleo Fanatic over at Food Fanatic! This Paleo Meatloaf recipe is one of many I’m sharing over there so make sure you check back!

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Bacon Cheeseburger Rice

Mar 04, 2015

Bacon Cheeseburger Rice – delicious cheesy rice with ground beef, bacon, barbecue sauce, and pickles on top! It’s ready in less than 20 minutes and a definite kid favorite!

Stay with me here. I promise there’s a reason I put pickles on top of rice.

But first, I got a Jeep yesterday! Yeah, buying a new car wasn’t really in the plans 4 weeks before we move to Texas but it was either pay a ridiculous amount of money for a new transmission or spend a ridiculous amount of money for a new car. And since my husband’s gone for months at a time and our Durango has been less than reliable recently, we just decided to bite the bullet.

Plus, I’ve been waiting for my kids to all be out of those annoying ginormous infant seats so I could get rid of my 3-row mom vehicle. (That had a Hemi. And I loved it. But still, it was a total mom car.)

My husband spent the night messing around with it. Like, it was snowing and he was out there in shorts, taking the top off, putting it back on, seeing how it looks this way, and then that way. We’ve just been waiting so long to get a Wrangler so we’re all a little excited.

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Crockpot Spicy Italian Drip Beef Sandwiches

Feb 26, 2015

Happy almost Friday!

The day before I left for this trip, I spent all day cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, things like that.

Not because my husband can’t do those things, I just wanted to make his life easier. (And let’s be real, he’d never remember to do laundry and the last thing I want is someone upset because they have to wear their brother’s pants to school.)

I had taken the kids to the store last weekend and let them pick out easy foods like Lunchables, pizza rolls, frozen White Castle burgers. Basically my kids are going to be sad when I get home and we get back to our regular eating.

But yeah, my husband’s sticking with Paleo while I’m gone and I wanted him to have lots of things that just need to be heated up. So I made this spaghetti squash casserole, this chili, and this beef stroganoff. All of those are favorites and I make them pretty much weekly. I also made some Paleo cornbread, a meatloaf you’ll see eventually, and roasted up a bunch of veggies. And finally, I made this.

I love making recipes like this because the meat is totally Paleo, super flavorful, and perfect on top of mashed cauliflower. But then it’s even more delicious on a roll with melty cheese on top! Which is, of course, how I ate it because I am weirdly obsessed with sandwiches right now.

It was one of those times where I was all, “Okay, I’m just going to have two bites.”

“Orrrr maybe I’ll just have half a sandwich.”

“Welp. I ate it all.”

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Paleo Steak Chili

Feb 22, 2015

I think we can all agree that one of the best things about winter is chili. There is nothing better than coming in from the freezing cold and finding a steaming pot of meaty chili on the stove.

We have had a lot of those days here in Colorado so chili has been on the menu a lot recently. And we’re still not tired of it!

I have really good news for the Paleo-eaters! Chili is so easy to make Paleo! It is pretty much Paleo to begin with. You just have to leave out any beans that you would normally add, and you have to throw out all the packaged chili seasonings. Other than that: meat and veggies!

Paleo!

I love pretty much all chili but I really love the kind with big chunks of steak. Especially with the Paleo chili where you are missing the beans, it’s nice to those big pieces of meat. So it’s less, “Blah, chili without beans is boring!” and more “Yay! Fantastic chili with big pieces of yummy steak!”

This version is extra delicious because not only does it have that steak that I love so much, it also has bacon. And we all know that bacon makes everything better. The chili is also easily adaptable when it comes to heat. I usually use a whole jalapeño but if you want more or less heat, feel free to use more or less jalapeño.

My absolute favorite way to eat Paleo chili is to put it on top of homemade sweet potato fries and then I top them with diced red onion, avocado, and lots of cilantro. It is so messy and requires a fork, but man, that sweet potato and spicy chili combo is killer. My husband prefers just a big bowl with onion and avocado. You really can’t go wrong though!

Exciting news! I’m now a contributor at Food Fanatic – I am officially the Paleo fanatic! This Paleo Chili Recipe is the first one I’ve shared but be sure to check back over there because sometimes I might not share them here.

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Burger and Fries Pot Pie

Jan 28, 2015

Yesterday my kid came home and told me that they’d had a lockdown. It happens more than it probably should (#armylife) and thankfully it’s always nothing.

Really, it’s usually a parent threatening to punch the principal or something.

And no, it’s never been me.

Yet.

Anyway, I asked what happened and he said, “There was a mountain lion! I saw it’s footprints on the playground on the way home!”

I was all, “Yeah….” and sent him upstairs to do his homework. So I went to my husband and said, “Hey, he said they had a lockdown because of a mountain lion.”

And he said, “Yeah, it’s possible. We see all kinds of things on the ranges.”

“What? Like they just come through the gate? That jerk wouldn’t let me through unless I took my sunglasses off the other day. But they’re letting mountain lions in?”

“Uhhh, a mountain lion could jump the fence. Pretty awesome, huh?”

And now I’m terrified. Of mountain lions. Hanging out in my backyard.

So in honor of the kid that may be telling me the truth or may be just trying to really scare his mother, I made something I knew he’d love.

Burger and Fries Pot Pie!

It’s really simple and my kids all loved it. It’s ground beef with some diced tomatoes and cheese and then it’s all topped with crinkle-cut French fries. How can that be bad? We won’t talk about how many French fries I stole off the top.

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Paleo Swedish Meatballs

Jan 22, 2015

This is the week that will never end.

I swear, the short weeks are the worst. Especially since we’re snowy and for whatever reason, school hasn’t been canceled or even delayed. Yesterday all of Fort Carson was on a “phased arrival for non-mission essential” whatever but the kids still had to be at school bright and early.

Lucky for me, I have one kid that goes to a school within walking distance. So he’ll either walk with his friends or I’ll walk with him. But then the other one’s preschool is a good drive away. So I called the secretary yesterday morning and said, “I’m not driving in this.”

And she said, “Excuse me?”

And I said, “My kid’s not coming to school.”

And she said, “Ummm…..”

So. We skipped preschool yesterday. Rebels.

At least I called, right?

A few weeks ago, when we made our family trip to IKEA, I tortured my husband (who is doing a strict Paleo diet) by pointing out every sign for their Swedish meatballs. Neither of us have ever tried the meatballs but the pictures were enough to make us both sad that we couldn’t have any.

And I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been thinking about them ever since.

So I made these Paleo ones which really wasn’t that hard since meatballs are just balls of meat. So pretty much Paleo to begin with. There’s no bread crumbs or anything like that but they have a great texture regardless. And the sauce has coconut milk instead of sour cream or regular cream or whatever typically goes into Swedish meatballs.

If I put these in front of you and left out the fact that they’re Paleo, you’d never know. You get no hint of the coconut milk. They really taste like traditional Swedish meatballs. And you could totally mash or rice some cauliflower so you have something to absorb all that delicious sauce.

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Sloppy Joe Fries

Oct 09, 2014

Sloppy Joe Fries – fries topped with sloppy joe meat, melted cheese, green onions, grape tomatoes, and jalapenos! Perfect football food!

Today starts 5 days off school for all my children.

Who decided this was a good idea?

Someone should’ve consulted me before such an important decision was made.

On the brightside, I don’t have to go anywhere today. I will change into workout clothes and then right back into pajamas after my workout. And a shower, of course.

Tomorrow, however, is parent/teacher conferences. The reason the kids have 5 days off.

Uggghhhh.

I’m always so nervous going into those things.

You guys already know that I’m prone to crying when I’m aggravated and there’s nothing worse than crying in a meeting with your kid’s teacher.

Because then you’re that parent the rest of the year.

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