something to do with beef mince?

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not enjoying anything spicy lately; had rissoles earlier in the week; even spag bol feels a bit 'rich'. Any other ideas?

Meatballs??
Or just good old minced beef and onions?

meatballs?
lasagne?
with peas and rice?
burgers?
plain with mashed tatties?
er...

Cottage pie?

Homemade burgers?

or you could make a mousakka type dish ie with slice d tatties instead of lasagne sheets

burgers or meatballs

okay remind me vanillapumpkin

I've just started eating meat again after 9years veg, is it just mince and onions? how do you serve it?

sheppards pie or scouse

crikey what's the difference between rissoles and meatballs then? or burgers, come to that?

scouse??? enlighten the foreigner please

im cooking mince right now as it happens

one onion, halfed
carrots if you like
mince (half kilo)
brown, then add 400ml water mixed with a couple of teaspoons of bisto
half a stock cube if you like
simmer for an hour or so

we have ours like that with mashed tatties and sometimes turnip

Stuffed peppers? Fry up the mince with onion, garlic, peppers, mushrooms, tomato, herbs (you can make it up as you go along, really, and use whatever you fancy). Mix the mince mixture in with some cooked rice, stuff it into bell beppers and roast in a hot oven for about half an hour.

We had this on the weekend - cooked mince with onions, tomatoes and kidney beans, with added cumin and oregano. Then laid out cheese, carrot, lettuce, salsa, corn etc with tortilla wraps and let the kids make their own little packages. You could spice this up or not as you wished, add sour cream etc.

that sounds about right, thanks nailpolish. I've got some parsnips, might do them with the mash. and peas, got to use them up before the great defrosting event of '07...

TBH I just fry a chopped onion and then add the mince and let it fry off for a bit until it is all cooked. Sometimes add a bit of veg stock or tomato puree and Lea and Perrins to make a bit more gravy but I like it just how it comes. Nice with baked beans too.
Nigella has a thing in her book where you add some lentils and a bit of boiling water and this is nice too.
I wasn't sure what a rissole was

oh florence, that's what dh said and it does sound good - I'm just off cumin/mexican flavours right now, no idea what that's about. Plus, no fixings!

scouse is a one pot dinner ,so mince ,onions,swedes,potatoes and peas all browned off and simmered in gravy (pref made with loads of bovril)

everyone does it differently , you use whatever veg you fancy

We would have mince and onions with mash and carrots and a green veg so parsnip mash and peas sounds perfect to me. A nice plain meal if you are feeling a bit odd about spices

for me rissoles = chopped onion, bit of Lea & Perrins, egg, roll into balls, squash a little, fry. Did them with chips, baked beans and peas on Wednesday.

peas with everything these days

yeah it's funny since ds was born I've been right off rich/spicy food - would eat plain meat, potatoes and brussels sprouts or cabbage every night if I could. hope that wears off, can't believe I don't love chilli, curry, etc. any more!

aah you're going through a 1950s stage...

twiglett had a nice 'recipe' for mash - she added horseradish but you might want it plain

everyone is welcome
but you wil all have to help me scrape playdoh off dd2's new bedroom carpet

yes NEW carpet

grrr

Rissoles, burgers and meatballs are quite similar.

But for me rissoles are made with breadcrumbs or potatoes and is often a way of using up left over meat (from the Sunday roast for example).

Meatballs are cooked in tomato sauce.

DOn't like the sound of mince & onions (sorry). Reminds me of 'savoury mince' which was a regular feature of my secondary school dinner. Cottage pie would be me choice.