August 7, 2025 • 8 mins
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This week, learn our easy ground beef recipe that's a total weeknight ground beef hero.
It’s a delicious, simple Korean beef that makes a fantastic one pound ground beef dinner with minimal fuss.
Get ready for a flavorful, 15 minute Korean beef bowl that proves you can eat like a king on a budget.
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(00:00):
Hello everyone, this is Mariela and this is your favorite, Eric.
(00:03):
We're starting out real good. We're starting out strong. We're starting out how we should be starting out
Okay, so we were just trying to
figure out if you guys share the same love that we have for one pound of ground beef because I love a one pound of ground beef
I always have like a pound of ground beef for my refrigerator and I know beef is more expensive
(00:25):
But to me it's like it's worth it because it feeds a lot of it feeds us and and you know me
We'll have a leftover at least for one person. So that's like five meals from even if it's $10 a pound, which it's not yet
It'll be worth it. I think compared to other cuts of meat
Yeah, with Ryan and I it's like four meals
So it's not bad. Makes sense, right? So you were talking about a quickie-quickie like you like it because you're just that kind of man
(00:52):
And a nice little quickie-quickie ground beef recipe, so spit it out big daddy. All right first of all
Don't throw my nickname out there to everybody
Okay, which one daddy spit it out
Wow
You know I like it out. Okay. I'm a romantic swallow. Don't spit
I'm a gentleman
(01:13):
Your mom raised you right
That's so gross. So I
Had a pound of grumpy I didn't want to fucking do
Burgers like I just want to do that so I thought to myself and by the way this one
Mm-hmm. I kind of came up on my own. No, you did it. I had I sure as fucked it. Okay, go ahead
(01:35):
You don't know me. You don't know what I do all day
I have an idea and I know it's not making this recipe up
But you may have adapted it from something in the back of your mind. It's okay
Go to hell, buddy. I like
so
I took the I took the pound of grumpy
And I want to have put in a hot pan. I fried it up a bit put some garlic in there put some black pepper
Don't insult. Do you put it in?
(01:55):
While it's cooking or do you put it in before the garlic and all that while it's cooking?
Yeah, interesting. Okay, go ahead. This one well. I use the I use the jar garlic
You know I love a good jar garlic. I do I do so
Throw it in there get it all brown and then what I did is in a separate little cup
I went ahead the the original when I actually what I did is I threw it into Microsoft co-pilot
(02:19):
To see what I can do and I said here all my ingredients
and it's a try this
so
It did call for a half a cup of soy sauce
Well, Eric is on the centiprol so we're not gonna do a half a cup of soy sauce
Even though I buy like this really low sodium tomorrow
I'm not gonna do a half a cup of it. So I did a quarter of a cup of it. So quarter cup of soy sauce
two tablespoons honey
(02:41):
It calls the red pepper flakes actually have red pepper flakes. I did have red pepper paste
I had gochujang korean pepper paste
Put it in there also and about a teaspoon of cornstarch mix it together
When the ground beef was done cooking
I didn't drain the juice or anything like that I didn't drain the fat
And I poured all the sauce over it and then I continued to cook it for about another three or four minutes
(03:02):
And the sauce got really thick and greasy and it was really fucking delicious
I have a question when you do drink your ground beef. How do you do it?
How do I normally drink my ground beef? I do it the way my mother taught me you put the lid on the pan
And push the lid against it and pour it over the sink
Yeah, that's that's how I do it
I used to do that and then now what I started doing is I'll push all the meat to one side
(03:26):
And then I'll tip the pan and then I'll put paper towel right into the pan and it's too much to
I said that too and I love that method
Because I used to do it that way the way you're talking but
Yeah, I'm a small person so like for me to
Big pan and for you it's easy because you have gigantic hands
Why do that's your other nickname?
(03:46):
Any man listening I do big hand butter churner. That's what they call it
Oh my god
Oh my god that's gonna stick
But yeah, I've done the one before with the with the paper towels
Okay, yeah, I like that trick. I didn't drink it this time though. I kept the fat in there
(04:09):
And so well, it wasn't much fat. I think it was like an 80 20
That I used I don't blame you sometimes just like when you're making a saucy ground beef the fat kind of adds to the kind of adds to it kind of helps to it
Yeah, that was it. And while I was doing that I was making a pot of rice
Look at you. I got a rice. I do like a good Cuban boy. That's right. There's no rice cooker here
(04:30):
I do it in the pot. I don't have one either and I'm kind of jonesing for one and I can't even why
No, have you seen people make a meal in the in the rice cooker on the I've done it in the pot
Okay, fine. I guess you could right? I don't know what's stopping you can nothing stopping me. I can do no just do it in the pot
Super right. Thank you for that Eric. I've enlightened at the moment my pleasure
(04:51):
So then when you make the bowl you just put the rice in the bottom and you put the meat on top
And then you chop up some green scallions and throw that on
Done. Marley this whole meal took like like well the rice six 20 minutes. Mm-hmm
So this whole meal took 20 minutes
It was like the easiest weekday meal I made on a Sunday
But it was the easiest weekday meal. It's a Korean piccadillo over there is what you made
(05:14):
Well, yeah, they would call it like a bulgogi bowl, but yes
Yeah, and I've seen it online they call it a Korean beef bowl, which is what you made
And I've made this too and I think it's delightful and usually what I like to do too is add a little brown sugar because I like my Asian stuff super sweet
I don't know and it's my kids like it too, but I know I know but I found my con is just not sweet enough, you know
(05:38):
I don't know it's just me
We've changed places in life
But why? Because you know, I've always had like a crazy sweet tooth and like the past like
Two or three years like that's kind of dissipated
Well, I do like a little brown sugar and all my Asian stuff and I also like to add a little bit of sesame oil to my
Oh shit, I forgot about that
So at the end when I took off the heat then I added some sesame oil. Yeah, thank you
(06:02):
That's such a key ingredient and I've always learned to add the sesame oil when you take it off the heat
What it'll burn
not just that
The flavor isn't as good. Oh is that true? Yeah, it's more intense like the closer it is
And if you're gonna add sesame oil a little bit goes a really fucking long way
(06:23):
Which I love about sesame oil, but yeah, because I buy like the little the little glass jars of it in the last quite a long time
It only comes in little jars and I think it's for that reason
No, you can buy them in huge jars. They go to Hmart buy them big jars
Well, fuck me. I don't like in the regular grocery store. They're all little
Yeah, I just a little drop. Oh, thank you for reminding me. Yes
So it took off the heat and then added some sesame oil on it
(06:44):
Yeah, I mean, I'm really good. It was really good and like I said
um 20-minute meal
Done so if you want to make a vegetable with it you can always get frozen broccoli and pop it into my
microwave while you're cooking I do that or edamame my kids will sell me for edamame
They love it. I would even get the frozen broccoli edamame and just throw it in there while you're cooking it
(07:05):
Like when the when the meat's done like browning sure you're gonna have the sauce
Just throw it in there like a little stir fry. Yeah, like a stir edamame is a great idea to throw in there
Oh my god. I love edamame so very much and it's so healthy for you. It is
I think I buy a frozen hamster cheap like a buck 50 a bag. I mean, yeah, it's his soybeans right like yeah
We're probably like 80% soybean at the moment you are soybean
(07:28):
I am I'm delicious. Thank you. Thank you for that Eric a compliment finally
Well, it's a long time coming
Big hand butter churner over here
You're gonna screen name
All right you guys um
Yeah, we're cooking a lot more at home for obvious reasons and also I just like my kids have turned into chicken nugget children to like
(07:50):
Oh no, they've never been like that never and it's because I've been kind of lazy and I am trying to reverse the clock
And sometimes they go to bed hungry, but they're gonna learn that they have to eat and it's gonna be varied
Listen, you got to bring out that boomer you were raised by you know what I mean like yeah, you can have yogurt or you could like
That's it yogurt strawberries or you're gonna eat dinner. Yeah
(08:11):
Anyhow this little bowl is delightful. I have made this for my children before and they love anything Asian influenced delightful
Good for you Keeter. Thank you for sharing that recipe today my pleasure
All right, y'all will be back next week
Don't forget to leave us a five star review and share us with a friend because
or two friends two two four I like that area you said you're a marketer two I am that's my
(08:33):
Eric marketing is what they're calling marketing Eric
All right you guys we love you. We'll see you soon bye bye
Hello everyone, this is Mariela and this is your favorite, Eric.
(00:03):
We're starting out real good. We're starting out strong. We're starting out how we should be starting out
Okay, so we were just trying to
figure out if you guys share the same love that we have for one pound of ground beef because I love a one pound of ground beef
I always have like a pound of ground beef for my refrigerator and I know beef is more expensive
(00:25):
But to me it's like it's worth it because it feeds a lot of it feeds us and and you know me
We'll have a leftover at least for one person. So that's like five meals from even if it's $10 a pound, which it's not yet
It'll be worth it. I think compared to other cuts of meat
Yeah, with Ryan and I it's like four meals
So it's not bad. Makes sense, right? So you were talking about a quickie-quickie like you like it because you're just that kind of man
(00:52):
And a nice little quickie-quickie ground beef recipe, so spit it out big daddy. All right first of all
Don't throw my nickname out there to everybody
Okay, which one daddy spit it out
Wow
You know I like it out. Okay. I'm a romantic swallow. Don't spit
I'm a gentleman
(01:13):
Your mom raised you right
That's so gross. So I
Had a pound of grumpy I didn't want to fucking do
Burgers like I just want to do that so I thought to myself and by the way this one
Mm-hmm. I kind of came up on my own. No, you did it. I had I sure as fucked it. Okay, go ahead
(01:35):
You don't know me. You don't know what I do all day
I have an idea and I know it's not making this recipe up
But you may have adapted it from something in the back of your mind. It's okay
Go to hell, buddy. I like
so
I took the I took the pound of grumpy
And I want to have put in a hot pan. I fried it up a bit put some garlic in there put some black pepper
Don't insult. Do you put it in?
(01:55):
While it's cooking or do you put it in before the garlic and all that while it's cooking?
Yeah, interesting. Okay, go ahead. This one well. I use the I use the jar garlic
You know I love a good jar garlic. I do I do so
Throw it in there get it all brown and then what I did is in a separate little cup
I went ahead the the original when I actually what I did is I threw it into Microsoft co-pilot
(02:19):
To see what I can do and I said here all my ingredients
and it's a try this
so
It did call for a half a cup of soy sauce
Well, Eric is on the centiprol so we're not gonna do a half a cup of soy sauce
Even though I buy like this really low sodium tomorrow
I'm not gonna do a half a cup of it. So I did a quarter of a cup of it. So quarter cup of soy sauce
two tablespoons honey
(02:41):
It calls the red pepper flakes actually have red pepper flakes. I did have red pepper paste
I had gochujang korean pepper paste
Put it in there also and about a teaspoon of cornstarch mix it together
When the ground beef was done cooking
I didn't drain the juice or anything like that I didn't drain the fat
And I poured all the sauce over it and then I continued to cook it for about another three or four minutes
(03:02):
And the sauce got really thick and greasy and it was really fucking delicious
I have a question when you do drink your ground beef. How do you do it?
How do I normally drink my ground beef? I do it the way my mother taught me you put the lid on the pan
And push the lid against it and pour it over the sink
Yeah, that's that's how I do it
I used to do that and then now what I started doing is I'll push all the meat to one side
(03:26):
And then I'll tip the pan and then I'll put paper towel right into the pan and it's too much to
I said that too and I love that method
Because I used to do it that way the way you're talking but
Yeah, I'm a small person so like for me to
Big pan and for you it's easy because you have gigantic hands
Why do that's your other nickname?
(03:46):
Any man listening I do big hand butter churner. That's what they call it
Oh my god
Oh my god that's gonna stick
But yeah, I've done the one before with the with the paper towels
Okay, yeah, I like that trick. I didn't drink it this time though. I kept the fat in there
(04:09):
And so well, it wasn't much fat. I think it was like an 80 20
That I used I don't blame you sometimes just like when you're making a saucy ground beef the fat kind of adds to the kind of adds to it kind of helps to it
Yeah, that was it. And while I was doing that I was making a pot of rice
Look at you. I got a rice. I do like a good Cuban boy. That's right. There's no rice cooker here
(04:30):
I do it in the pot. I don't have one either and I'm kind of jonesing for one and I can't even why
No, have you seen people make a meal in the in the rice cooker on the I've done it in the pot
Okay, fine. I guess you could right? I don't know what's stopping you can nothing stopping me. I can do no just do it in the pot
Super right. Thank you for that Eric. I've enlightened at the moment my pleasure
(04:51):
So then when you make the bowl you just put the rice in the bottom and you put the meat on top
And then you chop up some green scallions and throw that on
Done. Marley this whole meal took like like well the rice six 20 minutes. Mm-hmm
So this whole meal took 20 minutes
It was like the easiest weekday meal I made on a Sunday
But it was the easiest weekday meal. It's a Korean piccadillo over there is what you made
(05:14):
Well, yeah, they would call it like a bulgogi bowl, but yes
Yeah, and I've seen it online they call it a Korean beef bowl, which is what you made
And I've made this too and I think it's delightful and usually what I like to do too is add a little brown sugar because I like my Asian stuff super sweet
I don't know and it's my kids like it too, but I know I know but I found my con is just not sweet enough, you know
(05:38):
I don't know it's just me
We've changed places in life
But why? Because you know, I've always had like a crazy sweet tooth and like the past like
Two or three years like that's kind of dissipated
Well, I do like a little brown sugar and all my Asian stuff and I also like to add a little bit of sesame oil to my
Oh shit, I forgot about that
So at the end when I took off the heat then I added some sesame oil. Yeah, thank you
(06:02):
That's such a key ingredient and I've always learned to add the sesame oil when you take it off the heat
What it'll burn
not just that
The flavor isn't as good. Oh is that true? Yeah, it's more intense like the closer it is
And if you're gonna add sesame oil a little bit goes a really fucking long way
(06:23):
Which I love about sesame oil, but yeah, because I buy like the little the little glass jars of it in the last quite a long time
It only comes in little jars and I think it's for that reason
No, you can buy them in huge jars. They go to Hmart buy them big jars
Well, fuck me. I don't like in the regular grocery store. They're all little
Yeah, I just a little drop. Oh, thank you for reminding me. Yes
So it took off the heat and then added some sesame oil on it
(06:44):
Yeah, I mean, I'm really good. It was really good and like I said
um 20-minute meal
Done so if you want to make a vegetable with it you can always get frozen broccoli and pop it into my
microwave while you're cooking I do that or edamame my kids will sell me for edamame
They love it. I would even get the frozen broccoli edamame and just throw it in there while you're cooking it
(07:05):
Like when the when the meat's done like browning sure you're gonna have the sauce
Just throw it in there like a little stir fry. Yeah, like a stir edamame is a great idea to throw in there
Oh my god. I love edamame so very much and it's so healthy for you. It is
I think I buy a frozen hamster cheap like a buck 50 a bag. I mean, yeah, it's his soybeans right like yeah
We're probably like 80% soybean at the moment you are soybean
(07:28):
I am I'm delicious. Thank you. Thank you for that Eric a compliment finally
Well, it's a long time coming
Big hand butter churner over here
You're gonna screen name
All right you guys um
Yeah, we're cooking a lot more at home for obvious reasons and also I just like my kids have turned into chicken nugget children to like
(07:50):
Oh no, they've never been like that never and it's because I've been kind of lazy and I am trying to reverse the clock
And sometimes they go to bed hungry, but they're gonna learn that they have to eat and it's gonna be varied
Listen, you got to bring out that boomer you were raised by you know what I mean like yeah, you can have yogurt or you could like
That's it yogurt strawberries or you're gonna eat dinner. Yeah
(08:11):
Anyhow this little bowl is delightful. I have made this for my children before and they love anything Asian influenced delightful
Good for you Keeter. Thank you for sharing that recipe today my pleasure
All right, y'all will be back next week
Don't forget to leave us a five star review and share us with a friend because
or two friends two two four I like that area you said you're a marketer two I am that's my
(08:33):
Eric marketing is what they're calling marketing Eric
All right you guys we love you. We'll see you soon bye bye
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