Clean Eating Childhood Revamp! Skunkburger Pizza!

Yummy!  Skunkburger Pizza-Dilla

When I was growing up, my mom had a habit of renaming cuts of meat that she thought we might balk at eating.  We raised cows, pigs and chickens and butchered them ourselves, so we always had plenty of meat, even though we didn't have a lot of money.

We ate, or at least tried "snake" (beef heart), "Squid" (beef tongue) and we not only tried, but we loved skunkburger pizza.

Skunkburger pizza was such a hit, even with my friends, that one time we had my friend so thoroughly convinced that it was really skunkburger that her mom called our house to ask my mom where she could buy some!

My mom used a few things that I avoid now days, like Velveeta cheese and pizza crust mix, but since she was a single working mom when the tradition began, I can hardly blame her!  I also have the time & ability to make my own sauces now, too, so I don't even have to buy sauce in a jar.

Ingredients:
Whole Wheat Tortillas
Homemade Marinara
Mozzarella Cheese, shredded
Lean Ground Beef, cooked and chopped
Tad bit of Coconut Oil

Directions:
Lightly coat one side of a tortilla & place in a preheated skillet (Med-Low)
Mix together the Marinara and Ground Beef
Add the sauce & meat mixture to the tortilla
Top with mozzarella cheese
Top that with another tortilla (Even better, leave the top tortilla off and bake in the oven like a pizza!
If making the 'quesadilla' style, flip when lightly browned.

YUM!  

As I mentioned in the directions, I think next time I will definitely cook this in the oven with only one tortilla.  I was in too much of a hurry today!

However, it was still delicious, and there was enough to split with my son when he came in from raking leaves!

Do you have any fond childhood food memories or traditions?  Are you carrying them on with your family, or are you just working on making new ones?

And did I mention?  I cooked this on our 1950's Vintage Double oven-6 burner stove!

Clean Eating #42: Beef Stroganoff & Whole Wheat Pasta *Bonus:Tulsa Snow Storms = Cabin Fever

Eat Clean Beef Stroganoff & Whole Wheat Pasta

It was a HIT!  No one even noticed that it had tofu in it!

Sweet, calm, adorable girls, who set the table for us so nicely tonight!

Ingredients:

8-12 oz. Chopped portobello mushrooms

8 oz white button mushrooms

2-3 cloves of garlic

1/2 chopped onion

1 tsp coconut oil

14 oz soft tofu
1-2 cups beef broth

Black/blended pepper to taste

8 oz sour cream

flank steak, cut into strips OR lean ground beef

Whole Wheat pasta, cooked.

(Directions below)

What was IN that stuff??

 
 

If you want to know what THAT was all about, watch here (I'm NOT implying that you will then be able to figure it out.  I still can't.  If you have kids, maybe THEY can explain?)

I will say, it might just be cabin fever.  We've been snowed in for four and a half DAYS thanks to the Tulsa Snow Storms!

Directions:

Sautee all mushrooms, onions & garlic WITH steak/lean ground beef until soft.

Add tofu, beef broth into blender and puree until smooth

Turn heat down to LOW

Add to veggies in the skillet & mix well

Add sour cream for the final 5 minutes

Verdict:  I upped the mushrooms a bit, and I think next time I'll use medium tofu and more beef broth.

Picky Kids Tip:  If you don't like the consistency of cooked mushrooms, just puree the sauteed veggie with the tofu and no one will care!  My girls HATE mushrooms, but they LOVE beef stroganoff because that gets rid of the 'slimy' texture!