It’s time to fire up the grill! Woot woot! With July 4th being less than a month away, my focus is set on EASY grilling recipes and simple side dishes to make our holiday gathering memorable and delicious. So, this summer I’m upping the ante to include premium Certified Angus Beef and mayo free pasta salad! These two items are going to be the firework worthy main stars on my Independence Day menu that are sure to impress hungry guests and be a giant hit. Don’t forget to search grass fed beef near me to attain the highest quality meat, making your dish taste even more amazing.
Grilled Certified Angus Beef (not to be confused with other Angus meat) tastes amazing all on its own without much preparation. The meat is a favorite in our home, because it has a very rich, extreme juicy beefy flavor due to the texture and marbling, which makes it the perfect choice for grilling. However, depending upon your location, actual CAB might be difficult to find. Thankfully, I am lucky enough to have a local Price Chopper less than 3 miles from my home. The supermarket has an in-store solution center called House of BBQ that has everything I need for outdoor summer feasts, including Certified Angus Beef Ground Beef Patties and Steak, Central Market Classics Neil’s Favorite Steak Sauce, and a large selection of Betty Crocker Suddenly Salad.
Testing out my menu (like every good cook ought to) before the holiday, I decided to fire up the grill over the weekend and made Certified Angus Beef burgers stuffed with King Oyster mushrooms, Vidalia onion, jalapenos, bacon, cheddar cheese, topped with lettuce, tomato, and spicy Ranch sauce on a Miami onion roll. Oh WOW were they ever scrumptious! The secret (shhh) is to brush each side of the burgers with Central Market Classics Neil’s Favorite Steak Sauce to give them an extra savory kick! Seriously, if you are looking for something extraordinaire to serve at your summer celebrations, give the recipe a try! For guests who don’t like the heat, omit the jalapenos and replace the spicy sauce with just regular Thousand Island or Ranch dressing.
I also made a super easy Antipasto Pasta Salad using two boxes of Betty Crocker Suddenly Salad Classic pasta salad mix as the base and through in Provolone cheese, salami, red onion, marinated artichoke hearts, ripe olives, chickpeas, roasted red peppers, and Parmesan cheese. The salad was simple to prepare and the great thing is you can add any fresh ingredients you like to make it your own. If you decide to try the recipe below, I recommend you make the salad a day before you plan on serving it to ensure it is fully chilled and for the pasta to capture the flavors of the spices and other ingredients. The delicious and satisfying salad will definitely be a crowd pleaser! Plus, it is a fantastic mayo free alternative side dish to serve instead of the typical potato or macaroni salad.
Enjoy the summer grilling season by letting your cooking juices flow! Use these two recipes I am sharing to inspire you to spice up your own backyard barbeque! Get creative and show your guest that you are the MASTER OF THE GRILL! Don’t forget to check out your Price Chopper House of BBQ center for great savings on all your barbeque entertaining needs!
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Certified Angus Beef Ultimate Stuffed Cheeseburger #PriceChopperBBQ #Shop
Ingredients
- 4 bacon strips crumbled
- 2 cups chopped King Oyster mushrooms
- 1/4 cup chopped Vidalia onion
- 2 chopped jalapeno peppers
- pinch of salt
- pinch of pepper
- 3 pounds ground Certified Angus Beef
- 1/2 cup Central Market Classics Neil’s Favorite Steak Sauce
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 8 lettuce leaves
- 1 medium tomato thinly sliced
- Spicy Ranch Dressing
- 8 Miami onion rolls split
Instructions
- In large skillet, cook bacon over medium high heat until evenly brown, about 5 minutes. Remove bacon from skillet and drain fat completely. Once cool enough to touch, crumble or chop bacon into small pieces. Turn the heat down to medium and pan fry the onions, mushrooms and jalapeno peppers in the remaining bacon drippings until tender. Season with salt and pepper. Mix together mushroom mixture and bacon in a small bowl.
- Shape ground beef into16 thin patties. Add one patty to bottom of burger press. Use “stuffed side” down to create a pocket in patty. Fill with 2 tablespoons of cheese and 2 tablespoons of mixture. Cover stuffed pocket with a patty. Using the “pressed” side facing down seal edges.
- Brush each side of stuffed burgers with steak sauce.
- Grill burgers, uncovered, over medium-high heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until a thermometer inserted in meat portion reads 160°.
- Serve stuffed burgers on rolls. Top with dressing, tomato, and lettuce.
EASY Antipasto Pasta Salad #PriceChopperBBQ #CollectiveBias #Shop
Ingredients
- 2 boxes Betty Crocker Suddenly Salad classic pasta salad mix
- 6 tablespoons cold water
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoon spicy brown mustard
- 2 cups cubed salami
- 2 cups Provolone cheese cubed
- 1 small red onion finely chopped
- 1 cup marinated artichoke hearts drained and chopped
- 1 cup pitted small ripe olives
- 1 15 oz can of chickpeas
- 1/2 cup chopped roasted red pepper
- 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to instructions on product box.
- While pasta is cooking, in large bowl, stir together Seasoning packet spices, water, oil and mustard. Add salami, provolone cheese, red onion, artichoke hearts, olives, chickpeas and red pepper; toss gently to combine.
- Drain pasta; rinse with cold water. Gently shake pasta to thoroughly drain. Add pasta to salad mixture; toss gently to mix. Top with Parmesan cheese. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
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WOW ~ what time is dinner? This looks absolutely mouth watering yummy! We honestly haven’t been eating a lot of beef lately. Not because we don’t love it, the prices are nuts. So we got a Costco membership and hopefully we’ll be grilling and making these burgers soon!
Wow! This looks so so good! Thank you!
YUM! I’ll be right over! 😉 I love Price Chopper! Such great products and so many great deals! #client
We love pasta salad in our house and I make it all the time. I love your recipe using the Suddenly Salad. I had received a box in the mail as a free sample and was wondering how I could add to it, you just showed me how, thanks! 🙂
These are really great recipes for the 4th of July. I love Angus beef and the Salad sounds so delicious. I am going to try some of these amazing recipes. Thanks for sharing.
Yum! Now, that’s a burger.
I love making pasta salads for a crowd. Easy to make ahead and gets better in the fridge.
Yum!!! I’m definitely going to have to try these recipes. All of this food looks so delicious!
my husband would love this! I usually do not make many beef meals, but this looks really yummy!
Those stuffed burgers look delicious, I hope you took the time to enter the contest as well, you could be a winner with those pictures!
I love everything on this menu. The sauce looks really yummy, and I love that antipasto salad. Thanks for sharing!
These hamburgers looks amazing! Makes me want to BBQ tonight. I will have to try brushing ours with the steak sauce. What a great idea! Thanks for the recipes!
This looks absolutely amazing, something my husband and I would definitely enjoy. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe. You have been giving me many ideas and suggestions to help expand my family’s taste buds! Yummy!
I’ve never been to a Price Chopper – many ppl who can go there love it! These are great ideas – I love antipasto and to use certified angus beef for the cookout – yum! This is perfect!
YUMMY! The burger and the pasta salad looks so good! I like the additions you used to the boxed Suddenly salad, will have to try it.
I LOVE Juicy Lucy’s! I make them pretty frequently for our family. They’re a Minnesota tradition!
Those burgers looks so good! I love mushrooms on burgers. And that antipasto salad looks delicious!
This sounds wonderful. My husband loves hamburgers and he would really like to cook this one. Thanks for the great idea!!
This looks good
Looks delicious! We love hamburgers
Oh wow, what a burger. I have never tried a stuffed burger, but it looks delicious. I always use the Certified Angus Beef when cooking burgers.
That stuffed burger would be delicious. Have to work around not having a burger press.
The burger looks awesome!! This is my kind of dinner. I love how full and delicious it looks.
You always have the best recipes and most enticing pictures. This is another winner. Thanks for sharing!
Pardon me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard. That hamburger looks so good.
this looks so great. it would be good to try out this weekend or the next. i will check out price chopper and see if they have any good deals on any of these products now and try it out. thanks.
I just had a Truffle, Mushroom Swiss burger at Smashburger so I can look at this hamburger and not drool. Does look yummy.
Those stuffed burgers look delicious. We grill out year round. The Antipasto Pasta Salad looks great too!
omg the stuffed cheeseburger looks amazing. I have never thought of stuffing them before but the next time we have them I am surely trying this..Thank you 🙂
i have never had a stuffed burger but it looks delicious. i would imagine it is something like a stuffed fish.
We rarely have stuffed burgers here, and I mean very rarely. So this would be a real treat for my girls.
I like how easy the antipasto salad is. It looks yummy.
This looks delicious! I will have to try it out for myself sometime!
Anyone I know who can go to a Price Chopper loves it. I’d love to be able to do my shopping at a Price Chopper, you who can and do, are so lucky!
The burgers and the pasta salad both look yummy. I have never thought of brushing my burgers as they are grilling but will definitely be trying this in the future, My family would consider this to be a perfect supper.
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Love the stuff Cheeseburger. I am always looking for something new. Need to try
Wow! That burger looks & sounds amazing, so I’m gonna get the ingredients & try it out on my family this weekend! I’m sure they’ll love it. Thanks for sharing!