Stuffed Ground Beef Mushrooms

I went to a wine tasting party a few weeks ago and the host made delicious stuffed mushrooms. They were made with sausage and filled with flavor. So I thought I'd look up some recipes online and found one using ground beef. I added more things and left out a few others to make the recipe my own and it turned out great. I served it with a side of broccoli and a baked potato.

Ingredients:
12 Portobello Stuffing Mushrooms
1 lb Ground Beef
1/4c Worcheshire
1 lrg Garlic Clove (minced)
1/4c White Onion (minced or chopped finely)
1 tsp Tobasco Sauce
2 tbsp Mrs. Dash
1 tbsp Chili Flakes
1/4c Bread Crumbs
Kosher Salt
Pepper
Parmesean Cheese

Directions:
1) In a large skillet over medium-high heat cook the ground beef. Add in worchestire, minced garlic, onion, and tobasco sauce. Cook until your beef is no longer pink (about 15 minutes).
2) Now pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees.
3) Prepare the mushrooms. Wash and lightly scrub them, then cut off the stems so you have room to stuff. Chop up the stems into small pieces.
4) After the ground beef has cooked, add in the chopped mushroom stems, bread crumbs, Mrs. Dash, chili flakes and salt and pepper to taste. Stir together and cook for another 5 minutes.
5) Next, take a cupcake pan and coat lightly with cooking spray. Add the mushroom caps to the cupcake pan. Stuff each mushroom cap with the ground beef mixture.
6) Lightly top each stuffed mushroom with some parmesean cheese, then put in the oven for 20 minutes.
7)Take out and let cool for a few minutes, then serve as a main dish or appetizer!


Notes: Pair this rich flavor with a red wine.
Using a cupcake pan helps keep the mushrooms in place. The mushrooms have a lot of water that drain out while cooking and the cupcake pan helps catch the water.

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Good article I read on CNN this morning.

By Kristen Swensson and Leigh Angel, Special to CNN
March 26, 2010 9:24 a.m. EDT

New York (CNN) -- We hear it on the news like a drumbeat: Millions of kids eat out too much, lack access to fruits and vegetables, and it seems no one's teaching them how to make healthy choices.

Childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes are on the rise like never before. "This may be the first generation that has a shorter life expectancy than their parents," said an author of a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In February, first lady Michelle Obama introduced an initiative called Let's Move! to do something about the situation. She even laid it on the line when she spoke to the Grocery Manufacturer's Association last week, "We need you ... to entirely rethink the products that you're offering, the information that you provide about these products, and how you market those products to our children." The Grocery Manufacturer's Association says it's on its way to compliance.

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