Kid Friendly

Mozzarella-Stuffed Mini Meat Loaves

Add a gooey, cheesy twist to these mini meat loaves. These mini meat loaves are sure to be a hit with everyone in your family.

Mexican Meat Loaf

You can serve slices of the meatloaf with rice or try serving in taco shells dressed with salsa and other taco toppings for fun. Any leftover meatloaf can be crumbled to use as a quesadilla filling or a tostado topping.

Classic Sweet and Sour Pineapple Meatballs

Oven-roasting the meatballs instead of pan-frying leaves you free to make the sauce. The meatballs can be assembled the night before, if you wish so you can just pop them in the oven when you get home from work. The sauce can also be made ahead. Serve with cooked rice or rice noodles and snow peas.

Classic Reuben Sandwich

A classic Reuben sandwich is a restaurant favourite sandwich that can be easily made at home. Perfect for parties or weekend get-togethers. These sandwiches are great to feed a crowd.

Slow-Cooker Beef Poutine

This super-simple crowd-pleasing recipe uses basic pantry ingredients that come together in a snap - you're free to play all day as dinner simmers in the slow cooker!

Big Batch Tex-Mex Beef

Cook up convenience when you buy bulk packs of ground beef and stash mixture in the freeze.  Use it in this fantastic Tex-Mex Beef Taco recipe or simply add a scoop to your favourite pasta sauce, chili or casserole. Dinner just got easier!

Tex-Mex Beef Tacos

Tacos are a great weekend night dinner solution.  Prepare the Big Batch Tex-Mex Beef recipe ahead and scoop out the amount of meat you need to make these tacos.  This beef mixture is also great lunchtime solution.  Pack 1/2 cup of the meat mixture into a microwave safe lunch container.  Pack the taco fixings.  At lunchtime, heat the beef mixture and assemble with taco fixings.

Beef Steak Pho (Noodle Soup)

Make with thinly sliced prime rib or strip loin steaks. You can make your own pho flavoured beef broth (see Tip below) or buy ready-made. Serve the soup with hot sauce and soy sauce.

Beef and Pasta Pronto

An easy, satisfying dinner recipe that's perfect for every-night cooking. Beef is what makes Beef and Pasta Pronto best!

Beef’n Cheese Stuffed Potatoes

Here’s a meat'n'potatoes appetizer or paired with a salad, a light family meal the kid's will love. The small potatoes micro-bake in minutes and with Big Batch Beef, they're ready in a flash! If you want to skip making the Big Batch Beef, pan-fry 1 lb (500 g) fresh ground beef with 1 EACH onion and clove garlic, minced – take what you need for the recipe and save the rest to add to pasta sauce for next night's dinner.

Korean Quick Roast with Super Simple Stir-fry

Here's a small roast that's a big idea! Perfect for small families, Quick Roasts are 1 lb (500 g) fresh beef roasts that are cut from traditional Oven Roasts. Since they cook in less than an hour, they are perfect for dinners during the week. Serve this not-so-traditional roast beef recipe with steamed rice and the Super Simple Stir-fry.

Meat Loaf with Herbs

This Anne Lindsay extra-lean ground beef recipe appears in the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada cookbook: Lighthearted at Home.

Quick Beef Pot Pie

Turn leftover roast beef into an easy and delicious pot pie perfect for any weeknight meal. The puff pastry adds a flaky top layer to the rich beef filling. Customize to your liking by adding in any of your favourite vegetables. The ultimate comfort food dinner idea.

Nonna Ortenzia’s Meatballs

Emily Richards, P.H.Ec., shared with Canada Beef her Nonna's (Nana's) veal meatball recipe from her cookbook Per La Famiglia. These moist and tasty meatballs will be a hit with friends and family.

Homemade Tomato Sauce

Emily Richards, P.H.Ec., share with Canada Beef her recipe for Homemade Tomato Sauce. This is as close to her mom and Nonna's sauce that she could get. Using homemade canned tomatoes makes a difference but many people don't get a chance to can their own tomatoes. Emily wanted to offer her readers a recipe for a tomato sauce using store-bought canned tomatoes that was easy to make and still tasted great.

So Simple Spaghetti Sauce

Spaghetti is a family favourite and this pasta sauce features the Big Batch Beef recipe which is a convenient way to prepare dinner quickly on those busy nights.

No-Bake Beef and Veggie Lasagna

Curried Beef and Lentils

A single serving of this beef recipe provides a whopping fifty percent of your daily value of zinc. Serve over rice. To prepare lentils, cook 2/3 cup (150 mL) dried green lentils at a simmer in 1-1/2 cups (375 mL) salted water for about 30 minutes or until soft but not mushy. Lentils can be made in advance.

Gourmet Pizza with Pastrami-Spiced Beef

With chef-inspired special cheeses, pesto and pastrami-spiced Strip Loin Grilling Steak, pizza steps-out!

Maple Glazed Tenderloin with Harvest Vegetables

Tenderloin is one of the most tender cuts of beef so it's easy for kids to love it -- don't save it just for company! You can sub in carrots and/or parsnips for the sweet potatoes or brussel sprouts if you like.

Mini Beef Meat Loaves

These mini meat loaves can be served hot from the oven or wrap each cooled loaf individually and freeze them for future fast meals – they heat from frozen in minutes. Children love this Mini Beef Meat Loaf recipe!

Muffin-Sized Pizza Beef Meat Loaves

The recipe for these little Muffin-Sized Pizza beef meat loaves are the perfect size and flavour for children’s meals – serve them with the Vegetable Sauce and some pasta to complete the meal.

Spaghetti With Tomato Sauce and Grand Cheese Stuffed Beef Meatballs

This hearty pasta favourite, includes about 10 tender large meatballs with the sauce. Poaching the meatballs right in the sauce simplifies cooking and clean-up and ensures there is a good meaty and cheesy flavour throughout the sauce.

Mini Inside-Out Cheeseburgers

These yummy mini burgers, are just the right bite for our pint-sized burger fans or serve them up as sliders for appetizers.