Oh, Let’s Just Call It Man Food
Man food is meat and potatoes in some type of meat-flavored sauce. Sure you can consider adding other vegetables to it, but they have to be hearty, masculine vegetables.
Carrots are hard, strong, and grow in the dirt – masculine.
Green beans have to be broken (snapped) into submission – masculine.
Broccoli has cute yellow flowers so it’s out. Cabbage is limp and cooks in about 30 seconds so it’s out too.
Now I’m a female that tries her best to keep things on the lighter side for the overall health of the family, but sometimes I have to set aside my femi-nine ways and make pure man food – testosterone on a plate so to speak.
This looks manly, but it gets even manlier….
When you serve it, you throw cheese on top. It’s man food so ladies be warned – it’s a little salty and you’re about to lose all pleasant dinner conversation. My men only grunted until they’d had two servings of the stuff.
Man Food
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 4 med red potatoes, chopped into uniformly small cubes
- 1 c. chopped baby carrots
- 2 cans green beans, drained
- 2 cans reduced fat cream of mushroom soup
- 1 packet Lipton Onion Soup mix
- 1 beef bouillon cube
- ½ c. water
Brown ground beef in frying pan and drain. Layer potatoes, carrots, meat, and green beans in a slow cooker. Combine all other ingredients in a mixing bowl then pour over everything. Cook on high for about 4 hours or until potatoes are softened, stirring once halfway through cooking time. Serve with shredded cheddar cheese on top if desired.
Kim’s notes: The next time I make this I’m going to add even more carrots. Cooking time can be tricky for the vegetables, I cooked mine on low for 5 hours, realized the potatoes were still hard, then put it on high for another 2 hours. They turned out perfectly softened, but since everyone’s slow cooker is different, I suggest going with high first, then just letting it warm until it’s time to serve.
Happy Cooking!
