Hamburger Barley Soup Recipes are good!

This soup is one of our family favourites. I couldn't beleive I had not posted it before! It is fairly quick to throw together, then let is sit for about an hour to cook. One picky kid asks for us to not give her the whole tomatoes, put she still ate the onions, and cooked carrots without complaint.

This is a huge pot, so don't double the recipe, unless you plan to use a second pot!

1 1/2 lbs ground beef
10 cups water - sometimes I add more
3 tbsp beef bouillon soup base
3 cups sliced carrots
2 large onions, chopped
2 cups sliced celery
1/2 cup pearl barley
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
2 bay leaves
1/4 cup ketchup
28 oz can tomatoes, undrained
10 oz tomato sauce

1 cup elbow pasta

Brown ground beef in a LARGE pot. Add to the pot all the remain ingedients, except pasta.
Bring to a boil. Lower the temperature, cover and simmer for about 1 hour. Add pasta and cook until tender, adding more water if it is needed.
Serve.

If you think this is great, the second day is even better. I always need to add more water (Pasta soaks it up) before reheating.

Easy Steak Rub

Adding spices and herbs to your meat adds variety and really easy.

Use a spoon to apply the garlic, then sprinkling the meat with a mixture of other spices, takes only a few minutes, but add tons of flavor.

To make this simple meal child appealing , we cut our steak into a triangle (cone) shape. Carrots, peas, and corn were mixed into the mash potatoes, and scooped with a cookie scoop. Garnish with long green beans. Our picky eaters eat more vegetables then normal, when they are made into "Veggie Ice Cream" (See Picture)

3 tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp onion salt
1 tsp seasoning salt
1 tbsp fresh ground pepper
2 tbsp paprika
pinch celery seed
Steak

Spread garlic on the top of each piece of steak. Mix salts, pepper, paprika and celery seed in a small bowl. Sprinkle this mixture on top of meat.

Cook steak for desired time depending on how well done you want them.

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Beef Fiesta Mexican Dish

Serving dinner with corn chips instead of spoons and forks, gives a new twist to dinner time. Quick, colorful, and delicious, makes this Mexican dish a family favorite.

2 lbs ground beef
1 large onion (chunky, to be picked out by picky kids)
2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp pepper
2 cans tomatoes (19oz each)
2 can corn
20 oz water with 2 oxo cube
1 green pepper, chopped
3 cups instant rice

Cook the ground beef until brown in a large pot. Add onion, and cook a few minutes. (Usually long enough open all the cans.) Add all remaining ingredients EXCEPT RICE. Bring to a boil. Cook for 5 -10 minutes. Add rice, cover , and remove from heat. Let stand for 5 minutes, then stir together.

Serve with Tortilla Corn chips.

We love to add a bottle of hot sauce to the table, add to our own tastes. Some kids like it spicy and some do not.

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Nicole's Beef Vegetable Soup

hThis is a great way to have picky eaters eat!

My seven year old wanted to help make dinner one evening. She is my picky eater. She picked out all the ingredients, or they passed her inspection before adding to the soup. She even ate things she doesn't normally eat, because she made it. She cut up everything with supervision and decided on how much of each ingredient should go into the pot She didn't know what lentils and split peas were, but at that point she was excited to find something in the cupboard to add to the pot. It needed some salt and pepper, but it was a great idea. She now wants to make a "cookbook" of all her own made recipes.

3/4 pot of water
2 cups carrots (she cut up)
2 cups celery (she cut up)
1 small zucchini (hates it, but agreed if it was the small zucchini, and cut into large chunks, so she could pick out the pieces)
2 lbs hamburger
3 tbsp beef bullion
1 cup dry split peas
1 cup lentil beans
1 can tomato soup

Cook the hamburger in the pot, then add all the other ingredients. Bring to boil, and cook until carrots are tender, about 20 minutes.

Serve.

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Roast Beef Vegetable Soup Recipe

I hate to let anything go to waste, but I can only eat so much left overs. Instead of eating another roast beef dinner, I made soup with all the leftovers. It was delicious and easy to make, ready in less than 20 minutes!

Our whole family loved it! The four year old kid that said "I don't want to eat soup," sat at the table with his bowl, and surprised us all by saying "I guess I could have more soup" after finishing the entire bowl.

Leftover roast beef, cut into long strips
Leftover vegetables (everything and anything. We had broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and beans.)
Leftover potatoes cut into bite size, or leftover mashed potatoes (mashed makes the soup broth thick, and hides, great way to get the kids to eat potatoes and never know it)
Leftover gravy (great flavor in the broth)
Can of whole tomatoes (whole tomatoes is easy avoid scoping into a bowl of a kid that doesn't like tomatoes, while the rest of us enjoys them)
Celery
Noodles
Water

Mix as much or as little as you like, and throw in any other leftovers that are in the fridge. Bring to a boil, cook until noodles are ready, and serve.

Nicole's Beef Vegetable Soup