Last month, I went halfsies with a friend on a Zaycon order of lean 93/7 ground beef. (Zaycon is a company which sells meat direct to consumers. They offer super high quality products at very good prices. If you want more info, click here.) She received the order on Saturday, and I picked it up this morning. Now I have these two HUGE 10 pound tubes of hamburger, and I need to decide what to do with it.
These are huge tubes of beef! 10 pounds each! See that orange next to them?
I could be boring and just cut it up and freeze it (and I am seriously tempted to be boring), or I could do something fun like use my handy dandy pressure canner (I have this one) and can hamburger. Or I can brown it all before I freeze it. Hmm… What should I do? My fridge is overflowing with ground beef, and I must do something with it very soon! Any suggestions?
Not a super attractive picture, but you get the idea. These tubes take up the entire bottom shelf of my fridge.
If all I had to do was decide what to do with my ground beef, it would not be a problem. But, on a whim, I bought these while coming back from the beach last week.
Some of these are “less than perfect” on the outside, but they are yummy on the inside!
I passed right by some farmer’s markets, and they were only $7 total, so I couldn’t pass them up. I’m planning to make some marmalade, but I don’t know if I really need as many jars of marmalade as these will yield. I turned to my friend, Google, and found an interesting recipe for candied orange peel. I may try my hand at that, but I have no idea what to do with the rest of the oranges. The boxes looked so much smaller when they were in the market.
So, I’m begging you! Help! What should I make with my plethora of oranges and hamburger? Best suggestion (for either oranges or hamburger) with a recipe (it can be your own or something found on the Internet) wins one of my homemade jars of marmalade or one of my other jam, preserves, or jellies. If I select your idea/recipe, I’ll let you choose one of the following:
Orange Marmalade
Vanilla Pear Preserves (click here to see my post about serving it over goat cheese with crackers)
Strawberry Preserves (click here to see how I made it)
Strawberry-Vanilla Preserves
Apricot Preserves (click here to see how I made it)
Ginger Pear Jam
Carrot Cake Jam (weird sounding, but, oh, so good!)
Blueberry Marmalade
Blueberry Conserves
Blueberry-Lime Jam
Cherry-Almond Preserves
Watermelon-Lime Jelly
What’s the catch? You only have today and tomorrow to enter my contest and make a comment on this post (comments made after midnight Pacific daylight time on Wednesday, April 16th are appreciated, but are not eligible for the contest), and you must have a shipping address within the continental USA. (Sorry, no APO/FPO/DPO.) I’m not responsible for equipment or Internet failures. And, of course, no purchase is necessary. Other than the info above, the same rules apply for this contest as my April giveaway. Click here to read the rules and to enter my April giveaway.
Some of my homemade jam, jelly, and preserves.
So, tell me… What should I make?
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