Easy Hamburger Recipe Cheeseburger Pie

Although most of the cattle the boy and I raise are for breeding purposes we also fatten a group of steers each year for ourselves and family. We also sell some locally. It is so nice to be able to go to our freezer and pull out meat for supper. However, cattle produce a lot more hamburger than steaks so by the end of the year we are trying to get creative with recipes that contain hamburger.

I recently found a recipe for Cheeseburger Pie from Skinny Mom with ground turkey and thought that I could easily substitute ground beef. Hamburger is fairly inexpensive and is packed full of protein, zinc and iron. 

Cheeseburger Pie

Ingredients

1 lb. ground hamburger (I use 80/20 but you can use leaner)

1/2 cup onion, chopped

1 Tbsp garlic, minced

1 package reduced-fat crescent rolls

2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 cup low-fat cottage cheese

1 egg

1/4 tsp pepper

3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1/2 tomatoes, sliced

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown hamburger, onion and garlic in frying pan on medium heat. 

2. Drain meat of fat/grease (you won't have much, especially if you use leaner ground beef)

3. Spray 9x9 inch glass pan with nonstick cooking spray. Take crescent rolls and place them in the pan like a puzzle covering the bottom on the pan and as much of the sides as you can. Pinch all the seams together. 

4. Place the pan with just the dough in the oven and bake for 8 minutes.

5. In a small bowl mix cottage cheese and egg

6. Once the dough has cooked for 8 minutes spoon the meat mixture into the pan. Pour the cottage cheese mixture over meat. Top with shredded cheese. 

7. Place tomato slices on top

8. Bake for an additional 27-34 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.

The recipe makes 8 servings. 

The Boy and I decided that this would be really good with a can of green chili mixed into the hamburger. 

Recently, I also signed up for My Fitness Pal. According to their calculations this recipe has 211 calories per serving. 

Baked Avocados

The Boy has been in Florida this week. He had the opportunity to go to one of the Dayton races with his mom and dad, so I pretty much gave him no option other than going. He was worried about leaving the cows with another group of them so close to calving. However, I promised him I could handle it. Winter has been long and he deserved a little break and I make a pretty good farm girl.

When the Boy is gone it means I get to eat what I want. While searching on Pinterest I recently came across a Baked Avocado recipe, and it looked amazing. However, of course when I followed the link through there was no recipe just some ingredients. I figure what the heck, I'm not that bad of a cook, I can figure this out. So here is my recipe.

The Baked Avocado

Ingredients
1 ripe avocado (you definitely want them softer than harder
1 tomato
1/4 cup Italian or Panko bread crumbs
1/4 - 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
1 basil leave
1 lemon
salt and pepper

Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degree F
2. Cut the avocado in half and remove the pit. Place on a lined baking pan.
3. Chop half of the tomato, and all of the basil leave and combine ingredients. Fill the hollow of the avocado with the mixture.
4. Sprinkle cheese over the face of the avocado, then bread crumbs, then cheese then bread crumbs. Remember the cheese will melt down quite a bit so more is better than less. (Isn't more cheese alway better anyways).
5. Squeeze a little lemon juice over your masterpiece, and sprinkle a little salt and pepper.
6. Bake for 6 minutes. Remember you want to get the cheese melted, the bread crumbs a little toasty and the avocado warm.

They'll look something like this before you bake. 

These baked avocado were delicious. The combination of the fresh basil and lemon were amazing too. In addition to this being a really quick meal to make avocados have lots of health benefits. They have the highest amount of protein out of all fruits (yes, they are a fruit.) They also contain nearly 20 essential nutrients including fiber, potassium, Vitamin E, B-vitamine and folic acid.