Going to the Butcher - Pre-Made Meals - Laundry - Helping

Today was the day to go to the butcher in town and pickup some beef; being that I have enough chicken and turkey in the freezer.  I ended up picking up ground sirloin 90/10, skirt steak, and an eye round roast. The meat is antibiotic free, hormone free and is grass fed.   

I started pre-making several dinners with the ground sirloin.  Chili was the first meal.  I browned the meat and added fresh garlic, onions, oregano, cumin, chili powder, cayenne powder, salt and pepper; then added 1 can of tomato sauce and simmered the pot for 1 hour.

After letting the pot cool, I placed the meat mixture into two separate freezer bags for a future meal.

When we eventually have this meal, all I have to do is place the two bags of ground beef mixture in a pot, add water and masa corn flour.  Mix well, let the pot heat up on a low temperature for 15 minutes then add 2 cans of any type of beans.  I usually use pinto beans.  This chili recipe is wonderful and can be found on “The Pioneer Woman’s” website. 

The second pre-made meal, meatloaf. Take a pound of ground sirloin, ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon of pepper, ½ cup chopped onion, ½ cup chopped bell pepper, 1 beaten egg, 1 can 8 oz., of diced tomatoes and the juice and ¾ cup of oatmeal.   Mix well, form into a loaf and place in a greased pan (I use a spray can of olive oil).  I then coated the outside of the meatloaf with the following mixture: two tablespoons of brown sugar, ½ cup of ketchup, and 1 tablespoon of mustard.  I sealed the baking dish with tin foil and then placed the wrapped dish into a freezer bag ready to freeze.   When it’s time to bake the meatloaf, remove it from the freezer, let thaw, set oven to 350 and bake for approximately 1 hour.

The third meal was supposed to be premade taco meat.  The meat never made it to the freezer. We ended up having soft tacos for dinner.  I make my taco meat with ground sirloin browned, 1 can of potatoes and 1 can of green chile’s.

In between making freezer meals, I ended up getting all the laundry cleaned, folded, hung up and put away.

I helped Bulldog Man with a few things out on the back porch.  He moved some wood around, cleaned up the area and needed my help with some of the heavy stuff.

Then I made banana bread with several over ripe bananas and placed the loaf in the freezer for winter eating.

I think I’m going to watch the debate tomorrow to witness an old- fashioned ass-whoopin’.  Will you be watching?