Picadillo (I never use potato and sometimes omit raisins)
Ottolenghi’s open kibbeh pie, which I have made with ground beef
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Love that open kibbeh recipe!
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For me, a pound of ground beef comes to 3 burger portions, 4 to 6 if it’s used for something like pasta sauce, meatloaf, or chili. It saves freezer space and speeds future meal prep to saute one or more pounds of ground beef along with onion and garlic, then freeze in whatever amounts make sense for your household. Flattening a cup or so in a freezer bag makes defrosting quick, so you can make a pot of, say, homemade spaghetti sauce in the amount of time it takes to cook the pasta.
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Turkey should be great in this too, especially dark meat. You’re not a mushroom fan? I love them!
I’m trying to think of dishes that are not pasta or meatballs…
Stuffed paprika (peppers)
Rice porridge
Deep-fried rice paper rolls
Pasties/empanadas
Cabbage rolls
Sausage rolls
Meatloaf
Dumplings
With beans in a tortilla
With green/snake beans (a pan-Asian home-style dish. Use soya and oyster sauce or fish sauce with a pinch of sugar, Vietnamese-style)
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How about:
-Köfte and tahini bake (new to me)
-Stuffed or unstuffed cabbage rolls or zucchini
-Lahmajun (Armenian pizza/flatbread)
-cheese steak sloppy joes (kinda similar to a French Dip with cheese)
-Smoked Korean(ish) meatloaf - I have a loose recipe if you want
-Albondigas de Jalisco
-Lasagna soup
-Persian seared eggplant and tomato beef
-Bacon-prune meatloaf
-French stuffed tomatoes
-Ants Climb a Tree (with cellophane noodles)
-Cumin beef (sub ground, add cumin seed)
-Peruvian ground beef and angel hair soup
-As a topping for Palestinian tomato bulgur (shubalto)
-Taco soup
-Red beans and rice
North African meatballs (sub jarred roasted red pepper for the tomato paste)
-Greek meatballs
-Ground beef, cabbage, and tomatillo stew
-Rooz ma Lahem - rice with meat and chickpeas
-Danish meatballs with dill sauce
-Iraqi burgers
-Tex-Mex cheese and onion enchiladas in beef sauce
-As a topping for hummus or middle-Eastern spiced butternut squash dip
-Sichuan spicy ground beef with celery
-Picadillo soup with shells
Will keep adding to this list…
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FWIW you can make papoutsakia with zucchini as well. Papoutsakia means ‘little shoes’.
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That is a very impressive list!!
Thanks! Still going. I have a bunch of recipes saved. Correcting broken links now.
“I have to find ways to use up like 5 lbs. of ground beef every so often”
I’m thinking you should cook up a big pot of chili or grill out hamburgers and have friends or the neighbors over. Get over the first overwhelming 5 lbs that way. Then start from scratch with the next pound here and there with all the great suggestions here.
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I really dislike anything mushroom. I’ve tried, but they are not for me.
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Bolognese or meat sauce, chili, meat loaf, and ground beef stroganoff are my usual go-tos.
But you can cook it up for tacos, put it on pizza, use it baked ziti, stuffed peppers, Sloppy Joes, empanadas, Tex-Mex casserole.
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Tex Mex casserole reminded me to mention tamale pie 
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Natchitoches
Do you have a recipe for tamale pie you like?
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Enjoyable viewing.
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This link uses ground pork in the recipe, but I’ve made it with ground beef (and ground chicken too).
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Wow, lots of great suggestions and recipe links here! This is a great start - thank you, all.
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t like pizza (and when I do eat it, it’s got to be close to plain cheese or with veggies only), and I don’t really love hard tacos either, but I will give those a try too. Love the idea of bolognese and shepherd’s pie - now just to find the right recipes and experiment.
The ground beef from the meat share comes in 1lb packs, and I can make 4 burgers out of that. That’s a lot of burgers to have in a week for me. I don’t eat burgers for dinner - only when I have to. I do use about 2lb of the meat for the hamburg steaks which I freeze and use as a quick meal option when I don’t want to think about what’s for dinner, but 2lbs makes 8-10 servings of that for me, so I can’t have that too often either.
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Kobuta, it sounds like you only have a hard time with the ground beef, and you find a way to use up the other cuts of meat. I’ll put an idea out which I don’t believe I’ve seen yet. If you ever have friends over, do it when you’ve got ground beef to use up. That way the amount won’t seem so overwhelming to you. Feed them meatballs, hamburgers, meatloaf, tacos, or any of the other ideas you’ve seen. Most people will be happy with the food and delighted with the invitation.
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