meat
Recipes with either beef, veal, lamb, pork or larger game meats such as rabbit, hare, wild boar or venison.
Italian meatballs
In Italy, meatballs (polpette) are traditionally served as a second course, often with sauce or vegetables on the side. Smaller meatballs may also be offered as an antipasto or used in soups, pasta dishes, and other regional specialties.
Italian meatballs with tomato sauce
Pasta and meatballs is one of the Italian dishes most loved in the North American East coast. Though northern Italians like meatballs very much, probably not as much as North Americans do. To serve spaghetti with meatballs, cook the spaghetti as the package instructions say. Arrange them on a hot platter. Pour the tomato and meatball sauce over them.
Italian sausage meatballs
Serve Italian sausage meatballs with your favorite pasta. It feels Italians have the thousand and one flavors for sausage meat, try different ones and you will be surprised. Fennel flavored sausage is one of our favorites.
Irish stew
The inviting and very satisfying Irish stew illustrates the stewing technique. Prepared usually with the tougher cuts from lamb or mutton and, being Irish, the vegetables had to include potatoes. A good Irish stew is thick and hearty not watered down like soup. A substantial dish and full of flavor.
Chili baked beans
Mix a recipe for baked beans with one for chili con carne and you create a special kind of baked beans. This recipe is great for a crowd.
Beef brisket
Serve beef brisket with boiled potatoes or potato mash - with no milk, cheese, or butter.
Grilled cheeseburger with mushrooms from Kansas
As Kansas produces quantity and quality of beef, you can use some top ground beef to prepare gourmet burgers. Kansans love their barbecues and you will be close to the true food spirit of the land.
Quick Mexican tacos
Tacos rate high in the list for best liked Mexican food. A taco kit with ready made seasoning and prepared taco shells can be your introduction to Mexican food.
Greek lamb kebabs
Greek lamb kebabs taste especially good when cooked on an outdoor coal grill, like you would do your barbecue. The alternative is to use the broiler and you will get great results. These kebabs can also be cooked on the stove top, in a cast iron grillit, but they will take longer.
Feijoada
A hearty bean dish in the best Brazilian and Portuguese traditions. Not only beans, count on finding almost every part of the pork, including sausages, and some beef.