We asked for your best ground beef recipes. Contestants were not and sent some great recipes for the chance to grab a copy of the winner book in the category for bread, other baking and sweet in the IACP cookbook awards.

Best Ground Beef Recipes - Recipe Contest

Contestants sent their best ground beef recipes to All Foods Natural for the chance to win a copy of Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers.

Only subscribers to Food Naturally or All Foods Natural registered users were allowed to enter this competition.

This competition run from 21 December 2008 to 20 March 2009, entires are accepter from from 21 December 2008 to 1 March 2009.  Apart from the book offered as a first prize, there was another offered as runner up.

• Fix it and Enjoy It Healthy Cookbook.

The winners

Bette's Creamed Ground Beef on Toast was the recipe most voted.

Bette said "I am happy you enjoyed my Creamed Ground Beef on Toast , it's a great easy comfort food." And she is right.

The recipe is very easy to prepare and very enjoyable to eat. It is one of those sandwiches that feel as satisfying as a full roasted dinner. Meet Bette at the stove..

Q: Tell us about your background: Where and when did you learn to cook?
A:  I am the oldest of 5 children, my mother taught me to cook early around age 10. Then when I was 16 I worked in a restaurant as well.

Q: Which one is your favorite food?
A: Favorite food to cook are meats, beff & pork roasts are a favorite due to the leftovers can always be recreated. I love making "something from nothing".

Q: Who does the cooking at home? Do you cook for one or two, or a family?
A: I do all the cooking. It's just myself & my husband.

Q: Which dish is the one you cook best?
A: Chocolate chip cookies. Practice makes perfect and I have baked many of those.

Q: Which ones are your favorite recipes/dishes at home? Eating out?
A: At home, beef pot pie made from left over roast and gravy plus whatever vegetables you enjoy.  When we eat out, being from Maine, we enjoy fresh seafood.

Bette sent us also a second entry. See her Zuchinni Ground Beef Lasagna.

It's so exciting to have won the bread book. I taught myself to make yeast bread a couple of years ago when my mother in law wanted "bean hole beans" & yeast rolls for her 75th birthday. My brother in law offered to make the beans if I would make the bread. It was only 3 weeks away, so every day I made a batch of yeast bread until it I got the feel of the dough and baking just right. Many batches ended in the trash but by her birthday we had lovely white & oatmeal yeast rolls that were a hit. The book will be used often.

A runner up prize

The second most voted recipe was Sheppard's pie from Liz, and she got a chance to fix and enjoy meals the healthy way.