The Many Faces of Mince

For the past two weeks, Jako has been out of the bush and enjoying Root Beer and Dairy Queen in the states. I know, we all pity him and feel sorry for him back here in the bush…hehe. With the school opening and so much to get done before he left, we didn’t have a lot of time to prepare too creatively for his time away in the kitchen. Thankfully so, Jako made sure we had enough meat, bread, milk, and other necessities to last for awhile…however, in the meat department we found there was not a lot of variety. To our enjoyment, we found we had about 10 packages of mince meat (ground beef), 1 package of chicken, 1 package of minute steaks, and 2 steak stir fry’s, very heavy on the mince. Well in all our wisdom, we decided to dig right in and try to eat some mince and spread out the other meat, two weeks into it we realize that we have eaten mince every day except one night when we had the minute steaks. So this blog is dedicated to sharing how we creatively have eaten mince, in the bush, for the past two weeks…
I have to be honest with you…our inspiration for all this came from the one and only Forrest Gump!! That’s right! I am sure you remember the scene when Forrest and Bubba were on the shrimp boat and Bubba clarifies the versatility of shrimp…
 

“Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbeque it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That-that’s about it.”

Well out here in Mukamba, mince is the fruit of the bush…Let’s see, there is:

• Mince Nachos 
• Mince and Mushroom Sauce 
• Mince Pizza
• Mince Spaghetti
• Mince Sloppy Joe’s
• Mince Meatloaf                                      
• Mince Taco Salad
• Mince Lasagna Bake
• Mince Burgers
• Mince Sandwiches
• Mince and Potatoes

In addition, there are many other varieties of mince that we have not yet discovered. I think we have just about all of these dishes the last two weeks, however, with the uniqueness of each dish, it doesn’t feel like we have only eaten ground beef recently.

This next week’s menu looks to be a bit different adding some chicken and steak to the mince mix!

If you have any other creative ways to use mince, please send them my way ASAP…we still have a couple packages of mince left :o)

 

I cannot promise that ALL of our dishes look amazing as these dishes, but i am sure they taste just as good!!