EASY BEEF DINNERS

Beef and Ale Pie with Bubble and Squeak Topping

The rich meaty gravy of Beef and Ale Pie with Bubble and Squeak Topping along with the succulent vegetables is a combination to die for.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Angus Beef Carpaccio with Gorgonzola

Carpaccio was invented and popularised by Giuseppe Cipriani, in Venice. This version is too good to miss, with tasty Angus beef & crumbled Gorgonzola.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 5 Minutes
Beef and Ale Pie

Tender beef in beer with a crisp pastry crust makes this Beef and Ale Pie a tasty treat for a family meal.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours
Beef and Onions Braised in Beer

Beef and Onions Braised in Beer is one of those heart-warming dishes that taste equally as good whether eaten for lunch or dinner, summer or winter.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
Beef and Spring Vegetable Casserole

A good casserole, like this Beef and Spring Vegetable Casserole, is easy to make, full of goodness and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours
Beef Chow Mein

Chow Mein is a quick, versatile & tasty way to cook egg noodles. You can add almost any ingredient you want such as vegetables, fish, meat or poultry

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Beef Croquettes

Beef Croquettes is a lovely autumn recipe that is a little time-consuming but, nonetheless, very simple and well worth the effort.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Beef in Oyster Sauce

The subtle mixture of meat and fish flavours in this traditional Chinese dish enhances the meaty flavour or either pork or beef.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 7 Minutes
Beef Meatballs with Spinach

Hard to imagine that Beef Meatballs could become part of a controlled diet but, by using really lean minced beef you can enjoy with a clear conscience

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Beef Pie Burgers

By turning a burger into a pie instead of an open bun, you can achieve a balancing act of immense proportions. A winner every time!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 25 Minutes
Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington - the tenderest of Angus beef, smothered with mushroom duxelles, wrapped in Parma ham and put to bed in a cover of golden puff pastry.

Preparation: 1 Hour
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Beefburger

The greatly improved texture and flavour of your own Beefburgers make them well worth the small amount of effort you need to expend to make them.

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Boeuf à la Bourguignone

Originally a peasant dish and very much a favourite among those slowly cooked dishes that are traditionally the domain of French housewives

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours 30 Minutes
Steak with Mustard Cream Sauce

So you want to impress your friends with your culinary skills eh? Well here's a way to cook and present the most delicious steak slices possible.

Preparation: 2 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Veal Kidneys in Madeira Sauce (Rognons de Veau)

This particular dish is a real favourite of both my wife and myself. Quite often, in a restaurant, we will both choose the same dish - Rognons de Veau

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Streetwise Spicy Beef Pasty

Lots of "Street Cred" for these delicious Streetwise Spicy Beef Pasties. With a hint of spicy paprika, chilli pepper and curried egg wash.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Chili with Rice

Whilst I eat my chili very hot, this recipe is for a medium strength chili which you can adjust as necessary with more or less chili powder.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Cottage Pie

The Brits have a national fascination with minced meat pies and, when they combined it with mashed potatoes, the Cottage Pie was born.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 45 Minutes
Country Beef Stew

One of the original English recipes for stew is the filling "Brown" Stew that has more recently been termed a Country Beef Stew.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Sunday Roast Beef

The British traditionally roast a joint of beef on Sundays. There's no reason why you shouldn't treat yourself to this delightful meal at any time.

Preparation: 3 Minutes
Cooking: 45 Minutes
Creamy Hotpot

A traditional hotpot is a complete mixture of meat and vegetables that is cooked for many hours. Here, however, is a quicker and simpler way.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Crispy Topped Manx Pie

Crispy Topped Manx Pie is a crisp, potato-topped pie that is slow-cooked and really inexpensive to make. It's a great family meal.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours 30 Minutes
Cubes of Veal with Spicebread Sauce

Cubes of Veal with Spicebread Sauce, accompanied by Cauliflower-Cheese - it's truly delicious and to die for!

Preparation: 40 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Daube Provençale

If ever there was an underrated "stew", Daube Provençale is it! Daube is tender and carries the exquisite taste and aromas of the Mediterranean

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours
Easy BarBeQue Steaks

The smoke, the sizzle, the aromas, the BBQ - yeah - it's time for Easy BarBeQue Steaks - where real steak lovers get what they dream of.

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Fillet of Beef with Shallots

A fillet of beef is the most luxurious, most delicate (and most expensive) cut available and is worth every cent!!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Fillet Steak en Croûte

Fillet Steak en Croûte (in pastry) is exactly that - a steak wrapped in a pastry crust - and it looks good and tastes good.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Flank Steak With Cabrales Cheese

Steak and blue cheese are a popular combination, and this delicious recipe features juicy flank steak topped with Spain's famous Cabrales blue cheese.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 12 Minutes
Fruity Beef Curry with Rice

Curry is one of those dishes that can be made in larger quantities, since it freezes well and can quickly be reheated in a pan or microwave.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Graham's Goulash

Graham's Goulash is so called because a normal goulash takes ages to cook, but sometimes we find we can cut corners and speed up the process!

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
Graham's Meatloaf

Meatloaf is a classic of American home cooking. Graham's Meatloafis a classic of 'Graham's' home cooking, adding a few little twists of my own.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Grenadin de Veau Gratiné

In cookery, a grenadin is a larded fillet, especially one of veal or poultry, glazed with its own concentrated liquor.

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Guinness Beef Stew

Guinness Beef Stew is one of those strange culinary mixtures that works. The malty flavour of the Guinness adds depth to the meat.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Individual Cottage Pies

The Brits have a national fascination with minced meat pies and, when they combined it with mashed potatoes, the Individual Cottage Pie was born!

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Italian Style Burger

Italian Style Burgers make a great alternative to a standard burger. The addition of Pecorino Romano to the burger mix makes a huge difference.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Tournedos Rossini

This is the 'traditional' Tournedos Rossini recipe with foie gras on top of the steak. It is one of the great classic dishes of the world.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Fillet Steaks in Madeira Sauce (Simple Tournedos Rossini)

Fillet Steaks in Madeira Sauce is a simplified (and less expensive) version of the classic French dish, Tournedos Rossini.

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Manx Pasties

Manx Pasties are a well known traditional dish that were made for miners to take with them underground. They are equally delicious served hot or cold.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Marita's Beef Stew and Herb Dumplings

Marita's Beef Stew and Herb Dumplings is so called because my ex-wife, Marita, frequently used to make it for myself and the kids. Ah, fond memories!

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
Veal and Creamed Mushrooms

Veal has a tender texture that once made it a luxury meat. Nowadays, it is less expensive than it used to be and makes a nice change from time to time

Preparation: 3 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Veal Marengo

Veal Marengo, according to a popular myth, was first made after Napoleon defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Marengo, south of Turin.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours
Mick Duckworth's Breakfast Burgers

I wondered whether I was being rational by including this recipe for Breakfast Burgers; after all, it's probably a heart attack on a plate.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Mince and Onion Sandwich

Mince and Onion Sandwich is stupidly simple to make but the taste is rich and comforting. The beef absorbs all the great flavours of the onion soup.

Preparation: 2 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Mini Manx Beef Burgers with Blue Cheese

This recipe for Mini Manx Beef Burgers with Blue Cheese is great either for eight kids (one each) of for four grown-up kids (two each!).

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Mongolian Beef

The name "Mongolian Beef" is somewhat misleading since, apart from the beef, none of the ingredients come from traditional Mongolian cuisine.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 5 Minutes
Old Fashioned Lancashire Rissoles

Whenever I think of rissoles, I can't help but remember the delicious smell of them frying gently on a cold winter's day. Wonderful memories!

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Winter's Evening Chilli con Carne

Winter's Evening Chilli con Carne describes thie dish well. It's not too spicy but it has a great warming effect and I've never yet seen any left-over

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Pan Fried Veal

Veal has a tender texture that once made it a luxury meat. Nowadays, it is less expensive than it used to be and makes a nice change from time to time

Preparation: NIL
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Peppered Steak

You will see this particular delicacy in many restaurants under the title "Steak au Poivre" which, of course, makes it sound very continental.

Preparation: 2 Minutes
Cooking: 8 Minutes
Rare Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding

Rare Roast Beef on Yorkshire Pudding takes a typically British tradition and turns it into a typically British snack

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 45 Minutes
Roast Beef with Marmalade Marinade

Roast Beef with Marmalade Marinade is one of my little secret recipes, so consider yourself lucky that I'm sharing! ... Thank you, Graham!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Roast Beef with Rich Stout Gravy

Roast Beef with Rich Stout Gravy is a recipe I've kept all to myself till now! It's great for an informal meal or just for fun on a winter's day.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Roast Forerib of Beef

Roast Forerib of Beef is one of the grandest roasting joints of all, with plenty of fat marbled through the flesh, adding flavour and tenderness

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours
Rump Steak Stuffed with Stilton

Rump Steak Stuffed with Stilton is one of those decadent recipes that is actually extremely simple yet converts a regular steak into a gourmet meal.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Simple Roast Beef

Roast Beef varies only by the quality of the beef you purchase. Prime rib is cut from the forequarter and this succulent beef is ideal for roasting

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Simple Steak Supper

Simple Steak Supper is one of those excellent recipes you can quickly prepare then dump in the oven and leave it to cook itself. A great meal!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti Bolognese has probably caused more wars than the black death! Why? Because everybody's recipe is the best - much better than anyone else's!

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Spiced Bobotie with Apricot Glaze

Spiced Bobotie with Apricot Glaze is of Indonesian origin, consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping - a real depth of flavours

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Spiced Parsnip Shepherd's Pie

Spiced Parsnip Shepherd's Pie is a great way to prepare a pie with a difference. You can use either lamb or beef according to your personal preference

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours
Spicy Beef Curry with Rice

Curry is one of those dishes that can be made in larger quantities, since it freezes well and can quickly be reheated in a pan or microwave.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Springtime Brisket Roast

Springtime Brisket Roast uses meat from the brisket muscles. As cattle do not have collar bones, these muscles support about 60% of the body weight.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours
Steak and Kidney Pie

Ah, the humble Steak and Kidney Pie; what can I say about it that has not already been said? I'm a big fan of these hearty English favourites.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours 30 Minutes
Steak For A Winter Evening

Too often, people think of steak as tasty but boring. Well it doesn't have to be boring at all if you try this recipe for >Steak For A Winter Evening

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Steak with Béarnaise Sauce

Steak with Béarnaise Sauce is one of life's little pleasures that should not be missed. Béarnaise Sauce is a great friend of steak!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Juicy Centre Cut Beef Steaks

The centre cut steak is taken from the 'thick flank', between the rump and the topside and silverside. This produces a very lean steak

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Flat Iron Steak with Red Wine Sauce

Flat iron steak is the American name for the cut known as butlers' steak in the U.K. and oyster blade steak in Australia and New Zealand.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Beef Mini Roast with Walnut and Parsley Pesto

A speedy midweek mini roast that will serve up to 3 people in 50 minutes. The mini beef topside mini roast is stuffed with walnut and parsley pesto

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 50 Minutes
St Georges Caramelised Chilli Beef Steaks

You really can't go wrong with a rib eye steak that has been Caramelised. The sugar add a hint of sweetness whilst the cilli flakes add a bit of heat

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Skirt Steak With Shallots and Sautéed Watercress

We often eat Skirt Steak With Shallots and Sautéed Watercress since skirt is cheap and, no matter what it's reputation, is tender and tasty.

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Hungarian Goulash

A highly seasoned soup or stew of meat and vegetables, flavoured with paprika. Originally made by Hungarian herdsmen.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours 15 Minutes
Paupiettes de Veau (Veal Rounds) in a Mushroom Cream Sauce

The French refer to paupiettes as "alouettes sans tête" (headless larks). Thin slices of veal stuffed with minced meat. Simple and effective.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes

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