We grew up on a regular schedule, not military, 3 boys and Dad on the road for the week. Monday was always spaghetti etc. by Thursday it was empty the pantry. Several cans of veggies including Rotel,with cooked hamburger seasoned with spices always including Worcestershire sauce in the oven with a can of biscuits on top. Half way through flip the biscuits and brush with butter. If we had rice it was premium slop. I've sent this to the brothers with decades of envy because we had mac'cheese we could have added and none of us thought about it.
I do something very similar. I use rice and taco seasoning, but the real kick is frozen mixed veggies. Sometimes I add a can of black beans. The idea is the same, cheap, quick, easy and enough for a couple days.
I cook a pack of cheap Mac & cheese, when done, I add a small can of tuna, heat then add 1-2 c. frozen peas and serve! I also cook 1/2 pound ground beef, cook a pack of cheap Mac& cheese, add the cooked beef, and frozen mixed veggies, quick meals. Thanks
10 lb roll of ground beef. 50.00. I’m early in the video. But this looks a lot like a dish a woman I knew years ago made. She just threw it together from things she had in the house when the cabinets were bare. She called it rice slop. It was this dish with rice rather than macaroni. It was a fantastic dish. Everyone loved it. Sad part is. She passed away about 15 years ago and no one knows what the recipe was. Whe know she just threw a bunch of stuff together and made a masterpiece. She remembered how to make it after that because she made it several times and it was great every time. She sadly passed without sharing the how to of the meal. But I guess that’s life.
Wow!! $50.00!! We pay 28.95 for the 10 lb rolls. It's not the chuck but just ground round. In general, I get top sirloin when they are on sale 15 lb roast for around $40.00. I will cube that down and make a grind, and then using the burger for the rolls, mix to it and stretch it into around 30 lbs of burger, and cubed meat for stews.
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Mmmm, this does look good. I'm doing the Carnivore diet (zero carb, animal products only), to drop a total of 170 lbs of fat, so this one's off limits for me for a while. (And yes, it's working! Down 45 lbs so far.) Still, I like the inventiveness of this dish! I'll keep this bookmarked as an idea for a "cheat meal;" if you're not familiar with that, dieting can cause your body to get 'stubborn' about further fat loss, so every 50 pounds or so, I plan to throw the diet out the window and eat what I want for a day or two, to let all my hormones and metabolism reset. This looks like something great for fall, a couple big bowls of this, a few beer and an afternoon of football! Thanks for sharing.
My family has a breakfast version of this that we call Trainwreck. We use ground sausage, old school fried potatoes, egg, onion, bell pepper, cheese, and I forget the rest. We only had it on Christmas morning, or anytime we had a house full of relatives. Today we just go get donuts. 😂
hash browns on the bottom of a 13-9 dish. Then crumbled sausage. Then stuffing mix. Layer of pico de Gallo, drained. Blend eggs & milk with mixer like you're going to make scrambled, then pour over. Top with cheese & bake @ 350 til eggs are firm.
Made something similar years ago.2 lbs ground beef, 2 boxes of KD, a can of green beans, Rotel, seasoning. 6 hungry teenage boys. ( my son and his 5 friends) . I barely got any. lol
That looks really good. I bought 2lbs. of lean ground beef yesterday and spent $18. Even non-lean ground beef is crazy expensive these days. I usually wait until it goes on sale to buy it and freeze it.......even the sale prices are too high.
@@TheCooknShare I'm in Clearwater, FL Lean ground beef has been hovering around $8.50 to $8.99/lb. and regular ground beef is about $6.99/lb. Stew meat, used to be cheaper to buy, is around $10.99/lb. now. The only meat that seems reasonable these days is pork.
🎆 ~ Yep - cast iron rules - I've got four differently sized skillets (teeny, small, medium, & large); plus, a small, but tall, saucepan (perfect for my artichoke butter) & a 2-qt. kettle with a cast iron lid (it's perfect for baking rustic no-knead bread at super-high temps). Oooh - this shipwrecked recipe of yours - sooo gonna try this!!! I will, probably, only brown ½-pound of meat, though, cuz i prefer more - lotz more - veggies in ratio to less meat. You're right - meat prices have gone ridiculously sky-high (everything has). 💖 THANK YOU! I luv pretty food - i always HAVE to make my food pretty. I keep a gallon freezer bag of chopped sweet bells of every color - green, red, orange, & yellow - mixed together & in my freezer at all times, so i can handily toss in a fast couple of handfuls at sauté-time for most things i cook or bake (plus, ditto for purple, white, & yellow chopped onions in another gallon freezer bag cuz i luv adding extra mixed onions in my food). But, i will NEED to change a few other things here, too: due to chemical sensitivities, i had to give up that boxed brand you used ... had to make myself a guinea pig & experiment trying others. Luckily, i found i could tolerate boxed Cracker Barrel Cheddar & Havarti mac dinner - bonus: i luvvv it! Plus, realllyyyyy luvvv raw spinach added to almost everything, too, so will toss in a couple handfuls of fresh, ripped-up leafs at the very end - B4 your fresh shredded cheddar finale (yes, MUST do! 🫡) - just to briefly wilt to retain the nutrients; & MUST squeeze fresh lemon juice on top of the spinach B4 stirring 'em into the rest of the stuff in the skillet. Finally, GOTTA copy your fresh shredded cheddar cheese sprinkled on top at the end to melt into it all! Yum! 👍 :) Oops - forgot!!! To pretty much EVERYTHING i cook, I ALWAYS add "Lucky's Herbs" (my 💘 16 yo sheepdog's favorite organic seasoning mix that i created when he was four weeks old, to sprinkle on his Sunday's-only special treat of two fried eggs, along with fresh rosemary sprigs seared beneath & lemon juice squeezed on top ... & ditto for my eggs - but, for mine only, i also add curry powder). Lucky's Herbs (dried) is simple: broken rosemary whole leaves, rubbed marjoram leaves, rubbed parsley leaves, & crumbled-up dehydrated collard leaves. (Those four all go into most of my other food, too; E-VON cold things, like smoothies & cream cheese. But, to my cream cheese multigrain cracker spread, i also add dillweed, whole caraway seeds, cracked pepper medley, Pink Himalayan salt, dried minced onions, garlic powder, spirulina powder, & shelled pistachios - lol - you've made me sooo hungry!!! Haha!) Except for my usual additions & mac brand cheese substitute - I'm making your recipe (including your Italian seasoning - i luvvv flavorful food) ... I'm moving any day, finally, so most of my kitchen's packed, including my spices & herbs. 😢 Been eating a lot of deli & fast foods the past couple of weeks 😢 homemade is sooo much better. YOUR RECIPE MADE ME ABSOLUTELY CRAVE *REAL* HEALTHY food E-VON more. Can't wait to try this. Looks fantastic - thank you, again!!! ~ 🎇
It sure does. I have to get more pans. Hope you enjoy the recipe. Wow. Lot's of good info here. I'm going to copy it down. Thanks so much for your time and input.
I use 100% grass fed beef. Get it in the 3 pack at Sprouts grocery store for about 6.00 bucks a lb when buying the three pack. Really good beef and healthier. 😊
I made this recipe yesterday and it was so good! My husband is enjoying your channel and he has never watched it so far but he is enjoying what I am cooking after I get finished watching your videos! I am going to take the remainder of the casserole and stuff bell peppers but wanted to let you know it turned out great! Thanks!
Looks a lot like I call my World Famous Goulash except I add 1 jar of Rague spaghetti sauce 1 can of diced Rotel tomatoes and 1 can of diced Italian tomatoes. I make a large quantity and freeze it in quart size bags and just pop in the Microwave when I am too tired to cook. It is delicious. Thanks for bringing us along. I use either or elbow macaroni or brown rice. Both cooked and added to the meat,
Made this today! It was MWAH, chef's kiss. Very filling stick-to-your-ribs type recipe. We had one bowl each in our family, and we were all very well fed and happy. Thanks for this nice dish! I'll definitely make this again. I even added it to my personal recipe book.
Looks great! Going to try it! I have a bigger cast iron skillet you can borrow! I have them from 4 inches all the way to 18 inches! Cast iron is the only way to go! I use my 18 incher, skillet that is, to make homemade sourdough pan pizza in the oven!
I just found your channel and subscribed. I made this tonight for supper the only change I made was I substituted pork for the beef. My wife can’t eat beef. It was so good thank you
when i was on vacation i had bits and bobs of foods in the pantry and the fridge nothing that would work as a real layout for a meal, so i basically did what you did and had cream of whatever to it...cooked it in a pot and goulash was done;];];] very filling .
I had never heard of, or thought of, using boxed mac and cheese like hamburger helper, yet another one you've done I'm going to have to try. I did just break open a 3 lb. chub of 80/20 ground beef, it was from my freezer, I had gotten it some time back at about $4 (US) on sale, just checked the local Freds/Safeway/Wallyworld and they are all around $8 (US) up here. Glad I have freezer and a meat grinder, anymore I just keep an eye out for roasts on sale and grind my own, much cheaper.
Yeah. It works really well. That's not a bad price for gournd beef. Up here, do you mean Alaska. That's a lot. Wow. Yes, I want to make my own too. Are you homesteading up there?
@@TheCooknShare Not homesteading, I'm one of the few that was actually born up here. I work in road / airport construction which is really long hours in the summer here as nothing can get done in the winter so these quicker meals are really great. I can see the thumbnail for your smothered sausages video, I think I'll have to get some sausage out of the freezer when I get home, that looks really good.
That's a cool recipe. I and others could to a Mexican/Latino/Hispanic twist to it with the right spices and maybe even adding some chorizo; or even an Italian twist. Very versatile and quick meal idea. Thank you for sharing it. Happy cooking and stay safe everyone. 😁😎
A packet of taco seasoning added to the ground beef once it's done, in place of the Italian. Then, make up probably a double batch of either the orange or yellow Mexican rice (Goya makes really good ones). Make the rice separate, do everything else like Dave does except the mac n' cheese; instead, add a little beef bouillon powder. Serve it over the rice.
Fred Meyer here in the N.W. routinely sells the tube 80/20 ground beef for about $3.50. Often I mix it with in house ground pork at $1.99, which makes the price for 2lbs about $2.75/lb. Use the mix for meat balls(Italian, Norwegian or Swedish), chili, or American goulash with macaroni.Similar approach.
I just saw this video pop up in my feed. It looked good, and I realized I had all the ingredients, so I made it. I used dices tomatoes with chilies for some zip. It was really fast, easy, and quite tasty. Thanks!
And you can put this in a tortilla from storage in the fridge and put it in the microwave and have a burrito. I dice up previously cooked steak and put onions and cheddar cheese on the tortilla, wrap it up, put it in the microwave and have a steak, onion, and cheese burrito. You can also put some refried black beans in there as well.
I know what you mean about the chubs. Once in a while my grocery stores will carry them. Other times it's in packages. I live in cattle country out west, yet, beef is still expensive. Great recipe, will make it. thank you.
I tried the shipwreck skillet and my wife and I were very pleased with it. We really enjoyed it and plan on adding it to our eating menu. Thank you very much!
I can usually get the hamburger for about 350 a pound sometimes even down to 299. I doubled the recipe and added taco seasoning as well as the Italian seasoning I didn't have an onion but I did have the dried onion Don't do tomatoes so I did the veg-all kept the juice in it It got really thick so I added a half a cup of water It smells and looks so yummy I think my husband's going to really love this If not I've got lunch for a week lol
Haha, my wife and I made this sans tomatoes, we called it "Surprise in a Pot" as we cooked the mac n cheese separate from the rest and mixed is all up in the pot. The surprise was after you see the mac n cheese box, it was more (and better) than just mac n cheese.
Great recipe! I’ve made this twice now, very delicious. Also like that this video is short, easy to understand, and to the point. Thanks so much for sharing!🥳😋
I don't know why making something like this never crossed my mind but I get beef from the Family Farm locally so this would be super easy to make and looks absolutely delicious exactly how I would make it. I do not like rice at all so this is wonderful! Good on you sir great video
Canadian here. I make something almost identical to this except I make the KD first and set it aside, then I add it to the meat and veggies when they're fully cooked. This meal is my go-to for when I need to feed my hubby something really fast. He loves it. Now I can call it Shipwreck Skillet! Thanks, Dave. Good to see you. I hope your summer is going well, my friend.
This is the first time I've seen your channel here. I am going to try your recipie. This is exactly something I have been looking for. Recipies that are quick, easy, inexpensive and few dishes to clean. Best of all, I can eat from this a couple of meals, then freeze a couple for later. It's just me now. But, I still cook for 4-5 people so I can have leftovers. 😁 Thanks!
Ahoy! I like something over the campfire we call Catastrophe. Scrambled eggs with everything but the kitchen sink in there. Sausage bacon onion peppers anything that sounds good to you. Some folks can't have their food mixed together but I'm not one of them.
Wow man, that looks pretty good. I will put this on the menu for me and the little lady next week and I will drag out my big cast iron skillet to avoid any spillage!!
My mom used to make a box of macaroni and cheese, and mix in a can of cream of mushroom soup, and a can of tuna (drained), a can of sweet peas too if we had one. She'd always serve it with garlic toast.
My walmart has hamburger (and other meats) marked down first thing 6:00 a.m. or so on Saturdays & Sunday mornings. Looks good, no grey. Sometimes tubes but usually packaged or in patties already made up. I get great bargains and freeze. If you catch it right you can get 3 - 6 months worth in one trip. I took a 1 lb package out yesterday $2.13.
I have free ground beef from the food bank. And I have cans of peas and corn. I have Italian seasoning, salt and pepper AND a box of mac n cheese. I'm giving it a try.
Don't know where you are but here in central Texas you can still find those tubes of ground beef. Cheap but the meat isn't the best. Usually what I'll go for is the 80/20 ground chuck in a tray (90/10 is a just a bit too dry when you brown it). Fresher, too, as they have a full-time guy who grinds it right there.
Just saw this, amazing 👏 I can't wait to try this. You are amazing with the recipes. My whole family loves your recipes. Thank you so much for always sharing ❤
I’m a day late to the party. Never heard of shipwreck but make something similar (yesterday). Most everything up until the frozen veggies. I made the MC separate and put them together. Was always one of the favorites for the kids.
