Best Onion Rings Ever & Money Saving Grocery Tip

With the summer months here and all of us using the BBQ for friends and family gatherings, I thought I would repeat one of my family's favorites to go with all those hamburgers and hot dogs.

I love onion rings,but I don't like the ones that are tons of batter and the onions seem all limp and soggy inside.  I have a recipe for the best Beer Battered rings you will ever eat, and so easy.

The secret is in the recipe.  You use 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of cornstarch plus 2 teaspoons baking powder.
Mix in small amounts of beer until you have the batter the consistency of pancake batter.  Thick, but not too thick.

Stir until smooth , no lumps. Not too thin.

Cut the onion slices about 1/2 inch thick and seperate into rings.  Place a few at a time in the batter, turning with tongs to coat them well.

 Place in skillet with enough hot oil to float the rings.  Keep the oil hot, but not so hot they burn.  As they brown turn to cook both sides.  This takes just a minute.

 Place on paper towel to drain. Season with salt and pepper to taste.  These are so light, crispy and non-greasy yummy. Your family will love them.

Now for a money saving grocery tip.  When I was a single mom with 3 children, I use to buy my ground beef in bulk when it was on sale.  Instead of packaging it up in 1 lb. packages, I packaged it up in 3/4 lb. packages.  No one missed the 1/4 lb and and all of my recipes tasted the same.  This is a super way to turn 4 lbs of ground beef into 5 serving size packages..  Now that I am mostly cooking for just the two of us I have started doing the same.  Since good ground beef is $2.99 lb (on sale), that turns out to be a great savings, better than most coupons.

I just put them in small freezer bags and then I keep them on the shelf inside the freezer compartment door.  Really easy to just grab one for us or more if I am cooking for a crowd.

Here's my most pinned and copied (over 150,000 times) recipe to stretch your pennies even further.  ( I wrote this a couple of years ago and I used ground chuck.  Still a great way to feed a bunch and always a crowd pleaser.) Hamburger/Cheese Casserole

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