Hamburger Steak

Hamburger steak is not an exciting meal but I love that dish - hamburger steak, rice, gravy, corn and steamed broccoli. I had taken the ground beef out to add to a pizza and decided since today is Sunday and we don't want pizza today since we had it yesterday; Monday is the last day we'll be out and we have many stops to make. Thankfully none of those stops are at Walmart. We will go to the Mennonite store east (I think it's east) of Carthage for eggs; we'll go to Aldi for the salad things we need for Christmas dinner; we'll pick up the meat for our Christmas dinner and grab Mexican for lunch. Tuesday we'll have leftover pizza, then Wednesday, Chad, Nicole and Addie will be here for Christmas.

As soon as we finished breakfast this morning, I made the hamburger steaks.

Even though I had already canned a lot of onions, I am kinda overstocked with onions so I used fresh ones for the gravy.

I'm so happy with the ground meat from our recent beef purchase. After Browning 1-1/2 pounds of hamburger steak, there was barely enough fat to cook down the onions. 

I got the gravy made, let it all simmer on very low for about an hour, it's all ready for lunch. All I have left to do is get the rice cooked and the broccoli steamed. I'll do both of those in my little divided slow cooker . . I think I'll get LOTS of cross stitching done today.

Speaking of LOTS of stitching, look at how many stitches I've made in the last three days.

My goal is 400 stitches per day and I can't even remember the last time I made 400 stitches in a day. There have been a lot of zero stitch days so I'm really happy with my three day average (579) stitches per day. How many stitches can I get done today?? With dinner already cooked, laundry all done . . this could be a good stitching day!