Couple of Cooks in Love

This was a recipe my mom had in her "rotation" and it was always a highlight.  She would use leftover pork roast as the protein, which really made it tasty.  We don't eat much pork in our house, another one of my "rules" which I don't want to bore you with at this point. You could just as easily use ground chicken, but I think that the pork just adds a better flavor.  Sometimes stores will have a chow mein meat mixture, which is just course ground pork.    What we decided to do was grind a pork roast.   The recipe calls for 3 pounds of it, but I don't like that much meat, the best part of the dish, in my opinion, are the vegetables.  Also, when my mom gave me this recipe it only listed a few of the amounts of things.  Another great example of her saying, "Just use a little of this and little of that..." which now I totally understand!  I have given amounts here just to make it easier, but you can obviously do what you want too!  (This...

It might not look like it, but it is very moist and very flavorful.  We had it with mashed potatoes, of course! When we were kids, my mom would make us whatever meal we wanted on our birthday and whatever we chose the whole family ate also.  A story often repeated is when I was somewhere between 3 and 6.  My mom asked the question of me, and my brothers and sister started chanting, "Say steak Mary, say steak Mary..."   I wasn't deterred, my response without hesitation was, "Meatwoaf!"  As you may have inferred, steak was only served on special occasions.  We were never a lobster kind of family! While I love my mom's recipe, the kind with bread in it and tomato soup and a slice of bacon on top, it's fun to find new, and improved recipes today.  Over the 20 years we have been married we have tried many, but the one I keep returning to is this one, courtesy of Bobby Flay.  Every time we have it I wonder why we ever have steak!  (I have...