The soul of this dish is an incredibly rich, and deeply flavored, beef broth or “brodo.” This is accomplished by slowly simmering a beef shank for a long time, a really long time – like 4 hours, so if you’re in a hurry, this dish is not for you. But, if you want to enjoy a bowl of something that will warm you to the bone (or shank) then give this extremely simple soup a try. 

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Your hamburger recipe can include any ingredients that you desire. Add flavor and moisture to ground beef burgers to keep them from drying out. In today’s continuation, Chef Todd Mohr will show you how to grill the perfect burger.

Your hamburger recipe should come from ingredients that you love, not the person that wrote the hamburger recipe. Learn how to season, flavor, and add moisture to your ground beef on today’s episode of Cooking Coarse. Chef Todd Mohr will show you how to grill the perfect burger with ease.

…with a garlic and balsamic glaze. 

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Camp Stew

Ingredients
One and a half pound of ground beef.
Two medium sized carrots
One medium sized onion
Five medium sized potatoes
One large tin of peas
One packet of onion soup mix

Instructions
Cook the meat in a large pan until nicely browned. Chop the carrots, onion, and potatoes, and add to the meat. Make up the soup mix with enough water to cover all the ingredients. Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook with the lid on until the potatoes are tender. Add the peas and simmer for a further five to ten minutes until they are hot.

Hobo Dinner In Foil

Ingredients
Four medium sized potatoes
One onion
One pound of ground beef
Quarter of a cup of water

Instructions
Peel and slice the potatoes, and the onion. Place the ground beef into a container and add the water, mix together well and then add the potatoes and onion. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Divide into three or four portions and wrap with double thickness of tin foil. Place onto a medium to hot grill for about 40 minutes, carefully moving occasionally. Open with caution and serve with some bread rolls.

Chicken In Foil

Ingredients
One small green pepper, chopped
Half of a small red pepper, chopped
Ten button mushrooms, chopped
One teaspoon of butter or margarine
Four chicken breasts
One can of pineapple slices
Four sixteen inch squares of tin foil

Instructions
Divide the peppers and mushrooms into four equal portions. Coat a small area in the centre of each piece of tin foil with the butter or margarine. Place one portion of the peppers and mushrooms onto the greased area of tin foil, place the chicken breast on top and a pineapple slice on top of the chicken breast. Season with salt and pepper and fold tin foil over securely so there are no leaks. Repeat with the rest of the ingredients so you have four individual servings. Place onto hot grill or coals for approximately Fifteen minutes, then turnover for another ten to fifteen minutes.

Baked Potatoes With Bacon Wrap

Ingredients
Potatoes
Bacon
Tin foil

Instructions
This is a really cheap and easy camping recipe. Scrub enough potatoes for the amount of people to be served in water and pierce several times with a fork. Wrap the potatoes in a layer of bacon and then wrap with tin foil with the shiny side inside. Place in the hot coals of your camp fire and turn occasionally. Check that they are cooked by piercing with a fork; if it slides into the potatoes easily then they are done. Serve with whatever vegetables are available, or beans etc.

These are just four easy camping recipes for you to try out, but with a little imagination and some trial and error, I am sure that you will be able to come up with many more of your own.

About the author: Visit Mick Legg’s site for 580 great easy camping recipes that your family will love!

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A fine tip to get pasta right texture is to take away the small piece from saucepan and test it in your front teeth. It must be tender but firm to the taste. Never boil pasta but heat it in slightly salty water quite strongly until it make softer.

Then check it with your teeth after some minutes. Always cook the pasta at the end when preparing the recipe. Never leave pasta standing as it becomes tough as well as unpleasant.

Items (serves-2)

2 slices of the thick bread cut the crusts
2 tbsp of olive oil
1 onion chopped
2 garlic cloves paste
1 tin of the chopped tomatoes
8 basil leave
3 tbsp of the tomato puree
1lb of minced beef
1 tbsp of sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp of fresh parsley finely chopped
1 tbsp of basil chopped
12oz of the dried spaghetti
salt as well as pepper
Parmesan cheese to sprinkle when serving

Method

Put the bread in the dish plus soak it with water. The water must cover the bread plus leave it for around 5 minutes, and then drain off excess water as well as squeeze the bread and remove all liquid. Heat it in the saucepan olive oil, add onion and half garlic and rarely stir as gently cooking over the medium heat. Now add tomatoes juice, the basil leaves, the tomato puree plus the sugar and season it with the salt and pepper.

Bring it to boil the contents then decrease the heat to simmer. After 20 minutes this must be reduced to thicken plus the pulpy mixture. Using the big mixing bowl put the bread, crushed beef, eggs, parsley, basil plus the remaining garlic. Mix all of them all together by your hands also add the little salt to taste.

When all this is done, create a little balls of the mixture. Drop into the saucepan that is containing tomato sauce. Now cook over in the medium heat for about 30 minutes. Around 15 minutes prior to you are set to serve the dish, boil a few slightly salty water in the saucepan. Add spaghetti. Boil for about 10 minutes and then test. Once it is prepared, drain it very well.

Now put spaghetti into the large shallow bowl. Put your meatballs on the top. Gently empty the sauce over meatballs as well as the spaghetti. Spray on Parmesan cheese and then serve. If you discover Parmesan a bit strong, then use the milder cheese of your personal choice.

Author: Dave Text. Find more information on Cooking Recipe – A Tasty Italian Food at his site.

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