Mock-Steak Joubey is one of the more entertaining recipes in The Smart Shopper’s Cookbook. To some degree it captures the essence of the cookbook – making elegant meals with ground meat or inexpensive cuts – but very few of the recipes take that charge quite so literally. Mock-Steak Joubey actually fashions a ground meat patty……
Ingredient: hot chili powder
Bisquick Taco Pie (Indiana, 1992, adapted)
Bisquick Taco Pie is a nifty little weeknight casserole from a 1992 cookbook compiled by the Hebron Indiana Order of the Eastern Star. I’m not sure whether Masonic traditions involve potlucks, but this is a brilliant old-school potluck dish. It’s a variant on a biscuit-topped shepherd’s pie, jazzed up with some Americanized Mexican flavors. In……
Mexican Barley Soup (adapted from Mexican Recipes, 1967)
Mexican Barley Soup is a hearty beef soup that’s easy enough to cobble together on a weeknight. I have adapted it gently from the 1967 cookbook Mexican Recipes. Mexican Barley Soup exemplifies the simplicity and accessibility of the selection in Mexican Recipes. This recipe is nestled in with a bunch of more obviously traditional recipes,……