Store It Foods

If you take your cooking very seriously, you are most likely aware of the cooking rule that the best food is produced from the best ingredients. But don’t fret if you’re not a professionally trained chef. After all, picking high quality ingredients is not difficult to do. It’s all a matter of finding the freshest items. For spices, this means using fresh leaves and sprigs will almost exclusively add more flavor than dried or old spices. This means bottled items will always pale in comparison to spices straight from your own garden.

And if you want the freshest meat available, this often means venturing beyond your neighborhood grocery store aisles. With that in mind, make sure to invest in a high quality electric meat grinders for your kitchen and make some visits to your butcher. Not only will this ensure that your meat is the absolute freshest it can be, but it will also add an element of fun to your meat dishes. After all, you’ll surely feel like a bona fide chef when you’re grinding away creating your own ground beef for an authentic pasta dish or Swedish meatballs.

You do not need to limit your meat grinder’s use to the grinding of raw cuts of meat.  Consider this very easy to make recipe for shepherds’ pie.

Ma Palmer’s Simple Shepherds’ Pie

Ingredients:

• Leftover roast beef
• Leftover gravy
• one onion
• approx. 2 1/2 cups mashed potatoes

Take leftover roast beef and one onion.  Grind together.  Mix with gravy and fill a standard pie plate.  Spread potatoes over the top.

Bake in 350^o F. oven for 30 minutes.

Meat grinding is often done to make different meat ingredients for hamburgers, sausages and other meat dishes.  If you like preparing your meat beforehand, an electric meat grinder will suit you best.  Some models even come with attachments for sausage-making.  Most meat grinders have different size meshes so various sized meat cuts can be achieved.  Typically, all kinds of meat can be run through a grinder.

Having an electric meat grinder in your kitchen could be an advantage.  Some meat grinders can even grind up hard fruits and vegetables.  If you prefer making your own meals, instead of buying pre-processed meats and meat by-products, this is the kitchen tool for you.  It is easy to use and easy to clean.  Some are even designed for easy storage.