Chef Craig Share

February 26, 2010

With Beckah working her job at night and her schedule the way it is, I end up playing Mr. Mom on Monday through Friday evening. Part of this duty (among many other things) means making dinner on those nights. I enjoy cooking to a certain extent. Anything I do I try to put my all into it. It's quite challenging to cook a multi course dinner for adults, plus a 21 month old (almost 22!), keep the house clean.

We end up eating quite a few boxed meals like hamburger helper and macaroni and cheese and prepackaged meat based meals. I get very sick of eating preprocessed stuff. I call it "plastic food". But, it is usually fast and easy so that's what gets purchased and eaten.

Tonight I tried something different. I opened the pantry and sighed at all the boxes and refused the plastic. I decided to try an experiment, which meant I was at least 49% ready to go get fast food. What I ended up with wasn't that bad, especially for literally throwing it together as I went. I didn't know what I was going to end up with when I started. I looked through a cook book to get some ideas with the given ingredients I had. Below is the recipee I created on the fly. I don't know what to call it other than "Hamburger Soup". It was either that or "Food of the Gods", but really "Hamburger Soup" fits better.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. of ground beef
• 1 can mixed vegetables
• 2 cans of chicken broth
• 1/4 of a whole fresh pineapple
• 1 package of Ramen Noodles
• Soy Sauce

Directions:

Cut the pineapple into bite sized chunks and set aside. Brown the ground beef and drain grease as needed. Add the pineapple bits and let simmer with the beef for 5 minutes. Add mixed vegetables, both cans of chicken broth and the flavor package from the Ramen Noodles. Cover and bring to a boil stirring as needed. Add 1-2 Tablespoons of soy sauce and break up the hard noodles into the soup. Stir so the noodles are mixed in and boil for another 5 minutes.

Salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!

It's really not that fancy, but you get a tangy hamburger soup out of it. I'm just an amateur but you could serve with rice I think. You people who have been cooking, what would you add or remove? I think one could make it spicier if one desired. But that's what I did.

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