Buying twenty pounds of ground beef isn't very thrifty if left in the ten pound tubes, they're too difficult to use. But I learned something from one time of leaving a tube in the fridge for a while. (Sometimes I'm a slow learner.) What I learned is that I can pre-cook the meat and store it in the freezer for almost instant meals. Now that's thrifty.
This time I did half and half. I determined ahead of time what I wanted:
3 lb. made into patties
4 lb. in 2 packages for meatloaf
3 lb. in 3 packages for casseroles
4 lb. cooked with chopped onion put into 1/2# packages
6 lb. made into meatballs, cooked and packaged 2 dozen meatballs in a package
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| crumbled ground beef with onion |
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| Meatball mix |
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| Meatballs ready for baking |
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| Baked Meatballs |
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| They didn't come out quite even dozens, so I made one small package, perhaps for when it is just TopDad and I. |
Recipe
for Baked Meatballs
1 lb.
ground beef
1 egg
2
tablespoons water
1/2 cup
bread crumbs (I used homemade bread crumbled in a blender)
1/4 cup
minced onion (this time I used dried onion powder)
1/2
teaspoon salt
1/4
teaspoon pepper
Mix all
together and form 1" balls (a cookie scoop works great), place on a
cooking sheet.
Bake at
350 for 25-30 minutes.
When they
were finished I scraped all the lovely drippings up along with the meatballs
into the containers to freeze for the added flavor.
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