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May. 3rd, 2021 06:08 amThe last few months, I've been eating bagged salads as my evening meal. It's gotten kind of monotonous so I thought about making some vegetable sides myself. So I decided to make some bacon braised green beans.
I also am burning through my deep freeze meat stash, and had four pounds of ground meat to cook (one thing I'm liking now that I'm shopping for myself again is being able to GET THE AMOUNT I WANT). I decided to make Salisbury steaks. Found a good recipe that called for a pound of ground meat, and so I scaled it up to 4 pounds.
Yeah. Don't do that.
The green beans came out great, but one thing I didn't count on was that I couldn't really cook both my meals at once. The green beans took about two hours of work, and came out nicely.
Then I started on the Salisbury steaks. Added in all the ingredients and ground meat and looked at what was a GIGANTIC pile of steaks-to-be. Divided into 5 steaks, they's be...yikes.
But I tried...and had every burner on the stove going, and every pan in the house to make these steaks before I realized it was just not going to happen. Some quick thinking later, I figured we'd scrap the steaks, and go for a Salisbury Casserole.
That didn't work out like I'd hoped, so I then took the ground meat and seperated it into two pan and cooked them that way. They cooked up, but it took a LONG time.
Then I started making the gravy.
Again, not thinking, this is scaled up four times. After getting it all together, I was now trying to reduce about a gallon of gravy-to-be. It ALSO took forever.
But I did it. It's not bad. Not really good, though. Like...Salisbury sloppy joes. Texture is yuck. Taste is okay.
Total time cooking? Five and half hours. Even without the Salisbury Sloppy Joe, I forgot that making two dishes doubles the cooking time, the reason I stopped doing that. Maybe if I spread it over two evenings.
But, yeah, mistakes were made. Recoverable mistakes. But...yikes.
I also am burning through my deep freeze meat stash, and had four pounds of ground meat to cook (one thing I'm liking now that I'm shopping for myself again is being able to GET THE AMOUNT I WANT). I decided to make Salisbury steaks. Found a good recipe that called for a pound of ground meat, and so I scaled it up to 4 pounds.
Yeah. Don't do that.
The green beans came out great, but one thing I didn't count on was that I couldn't really cook both my meals at once. The green beans took about two hours of work, and came out nicely.
Then I started on the Salisbury steaks. Added in all the ingredients and ground meat and looked at what was a GIGANTIC pile of steaks-to-be. Divided into 5 steaks, they's be...yikes.
But I tried...and had every burner on the stove going, and every pan in the house to make these steaks before I realized it was just not going to happen. Some quick thinking later, I figured we'd scrap the steaks, and go for a Salisbury Casserole.
That didn't work out like I'd hoped, so I then took the ground meat and seperated it into two pan and cooked them that way. They cooked up, but it took a LONG time.
Then I started making the gravy.
Again, not thinking, this is scaled up four times. After getting it all together, I was now trying to reduce about a gallon of gravy-to-be. It ALSO took forever.
But I did it. It's not bad. Not really good, though. Like...Salisbury sloppy joes. Texture is yuck. Taste is okay.
Total time cooking? Five and half hours. Even without the Salisbury Sloppy Joe, I forgot that making two dishes doubles the cooking time, the reason I stopped doing that. Maybe if I spread it over two evenings.
But, yeah, mistakes were made. Recoverable mistakes. But...yikes.
