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homemade meatball soft tacos

2019/06/26 By Melinda Leave a Comment

A Mediterranean Mexican mash up, soft tacos made with homemade flour tortillas and stuffed with tiny flavor bomb meatballs, cucumber, yogurt sauce, and pickled veggies. a note on the flour tortillas I used my bacon fat flour tortilla recipe except this time I used butter and warm milk instead of bacon fat and only divided […]

Filed Under: Meaty Mains, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: flour tortilla, ground beef, ground pork, jalapeño, meatballs, red onion, tacos, yogurt

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meat pie: savory ground beef and sweet potato pie

2019/04/16 By Melinda 2 Comments

close up of ground beef meat pie with rich milk bread dough

Somewhere between a Kulebyaka and a midwestern meat pie (which I honestly didn’t know was a thing until the internet told me so, if you’re familiar please share!) this savory meat pie made with ground beef and an enriched dough is comfort food for a crowd (or for two) easily sharable and even when your […]

Filed Under: Meaty Mains, Recipes, Savory, Yeast Breads Tagged With: enriched dough, ground beef, leek, sweet potato

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Kofta-esque: ground beef kebabs with yogurt dipping sauce

2018/05/29 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Kofta-esque: ground beef kebabs with yogurt dipping sauce overhead shot with flatbread and cucumber

A little bit kofta, a little bit gyro- these ground beef kebabs with yogurt dipping sauce have all the fresh herbs you want in a summer time grill with just a hint of the warm spices you traditionally find in kofta.  Addictively good, on the grill or on a grill pan, with a healthy heap […]

Filed Under: Meaty Mains, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: greek, grilling, ground beef, gyro, kebabs, labneh, middle eastern, yogurt

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Cornbread Tamale Pie with green chili and cheese

2015/02/23 By Melinda 2 Comments

  Baked in cast iron, like so many of the best things are, this pie that isn’t really a pie and only bears a corn kernel’s resemblance to a tamale is satisfying slightly spicy comfort food at it’s simplest. UPDATED October 10th, 2026- when I remade this to retake the pictures I proved to myself […]

Filed Under: Cast Iron, Meaty Mains, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: cast iron, chili, cornbread, green chile, green chili, ground beef

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