Meats/7 recipes

Traditional mincemeat with real beef and suet, the way it was made for centuries before the meatless version took over. Currants, raisins, apples, brandy, and warming spices simmer into a deeply flavored pie filling. Yields 80 servings.

Round-up beef for a crowd, slow-braised round steak strips in a sweet-tangy ketchup, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce. Feeds 20 with chuck-wagon flair, served over noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes.

Baked Italian sausage and mozzarella pasta casserole scaled to feed 150 people. Layered with corkscrew pasta, mushrooms, and spaghetti sauce across eight 6-quart pans.

Slow-roasted beef brisket braised in barbecue sauce until fork-tender, thinly sliced, and piled high on buns. Feeds 50 hungry guests with just 4 simple ingredients.

Backyard booyah, the giant slow-simmered meat-and-vegetable stew of the Upper Midwest. Beef, soup bones, and chicken cooked until they fall off the bone, then loaded with vegetables in a kettle.

A large batch cured German style sausage from scratch.

Quick microwave pineapple sauce with cinnamon and butter, thickened with cornstarch. A sweet, spiced sauce for grilled meats or desserts, ready in just 7 minutes.

Old-fashioned mince meat with calf tongue, suet, dried fruit, candied citrus, brandy and whiskey. The traditional pie filling, aged in a crock for at least 7 weeks for deep holiday flavor.

Slow cooker meat and potato loaf with ground beef, Italian sausage, and instant potato flakes, cooked low for 6-7 hours. A hands-off meatloaf with a clever cheesecloth lifting trick.

Florida bouillabaisse: a Gulf Coast riff on the French classic with fish, shrimp, crab, clams, and softshell turtle in a saffron-tomato broth. Wine, herbs, and white bread for sopping. Feeds a crowd.

We loved it and used it in the Turkey Lasagna recipe.

Use zucchini slices to replace lasagna noodles, which reduces lots of calories and carbohydrate, but it still tastes cheesy and flavorful. A great recipe to cook some seasonal zucchinis into a light yet delicious meal.

A great party food favorite. Tastes just like normal sausage rolls - makes you wonder just how much actual meat they have in them :P. Even my 17 year old carnivor of a brother loves these.

Beef and barley vegetable soup made from scratch with soup bones, pearl barley, tomatoes, and fresh peas. A slow-simmered three-hour soup with old-fashioned depth.

This salad deserves five stars. We made the salad with some leftover roasted lamb leg. The mint-basil dressing was terrific, and it went so well with the lamb. The salad had lots of great texture and flavour...

These were delicious after a little bit of tweaking. I don't think I've ever made meatballs without some garlic, so I felt the need to add one large clove of minced along with a teaspoon of soy sauce, replacing the 1/2 teaspoon of salt, in the meat mixture...