Crappie-Pizza Burgers-no exact recipe but my mom mixed ground beef with Spam, sauteed, maybe with some onion, added a good dose of oregano then mixed in tomato sauce or even spagetti suace, let reduce if the mix looks soupy. Spoon onto hamburger buns (with seasame seeds) add some cheddar cheese and bake-Yum!
Spam-grosses me out to work with, so I have used ground pork with a big pinch of sugar-good luck!
I’ll give another nod to Mom’s pot roast. She made it in the pressure cooker with a 7 bone. We don’t find that anymore, most are with a chuck roast. The only thing I did to improve on it was to use the dutch oven and cook lower and longer. It stays so much more moist even through a couple of leftover meals. Captivating aroma when entering the house, ooh so good!!
Tim, cube up some velveeta and stir it in, no need for real cheese
Granda (old Slovac) made “Brown Gravy”
Boiled potatoes in one pot
in another cooked a few pcs of bacon
when the bacon was done she would take it out of the pan and make a roux
Pour the potato water in the roux
Then put in the bacon, potatoes, whatever meat she had around usually some sort of sausage and some kale
Right at the end she put in about a 1/4 cup of vinegar
Put it in a bowl and put a couple slices of torn up bread on it!
Haven’t had it in years, but think I might crank up a pot this weekend.
I miss Grandma.
Thanks Crappie for making me remember.
My mom used to pop popcorn in bacon grease. Awesome
My mom used to pop popcorn in bacon grease. Awesome
Venison steak fried in bacon grease 
My Mom used to make 2 great dishes I love and cannot make Luke she did to this day.
casserole with rice, tomatoe juice, hamburger and green olives.
Beef stroganoff
My Grandmother used to make a French onion soup that no matter how hard any of us tried we couldn’t get the recipe. The other is what she called Hobo meals. My grandparents owned a farm and to make meals easy she would press ground beef and pork into a patty with a bunch of spices, half a stick of butter, sliced potatoes, onions salt and pepper. She used to make them and leave them for us when she had to work. She was Oak Creek city clerk.
Kraut with hot dogs cubed into it. The side was biscuits with meat gravy. Now that I think about it I am not sure what the main course was?
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