A Real San Francisco Treat Joes Special Recipes

A REAL SAN FRANCISCO TREAT: JOE'S SPECIAL

Steps:

• In a heavy skillet over medium heat, cook onions and garlic in olive oil until tender and translucent.
• Add crumbled ground sirloin and cook until the beef is almost browned.
• Stir in sliced mushrooms. Add sherry, if desired, and cook about one minute. Mix in spinach and seasonings and stir well.
• Mix in green chilies, if desired. Add the beaten eggs stirring constantly to completely blend eggs into the mixture.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the Parmesan cheese and serve immediately. Serve with French bread.

JOE'S SPECIAL

Steps:

• Crack the eggs into a small bowl and add the Tabasco, salt, basil, and pepper. Whisk just enough to combine; you should still see large bubbles. Set aside.
• Warm the oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat until the butter melts. Add the onion and sauté until soft but not beginning to brown, about 4 minutes. Add the ground beef and continue cooking until uniformly brown, breaking the meat into small pieces as it cooks. Cover with the spinach, place a lid over the mixture, and cook for about 3 minutes, just until the spinach wilts. (If using frozen spinach, cook, covered, for 1 minute, just to take off its raw edge.)
• Stir the spinach into the meat, cooking briefly to eliminate excess liquid if the mixture seems watery. Pour the egg mixture over all, stirring with a spatula from the bottom until the eggs begin to set. Remove from the heat and stir a few more times, as the eggs cook through from the residual heat. Serve immediately.

JOE'S EXTRA SPECIAL

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil over a high flame then add the ground beef.
• Cook until is beef almost browned, then add the garlic, mushrooms and onions. Cook until they are soft.
• Add the wine and heat to boiling, then the chard and stir.
• After the chard has wilted, add the eggs, salt and pepper. Grate a little nutmeg over the lot.
• Stir until the eggs are no longer runny and then remove pan from the heat.
• Stir in the romano cheese and serve.

SAN FRANCISCO LITTLE JOES

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet. Add onion, and cook over medium heat until soft. Add beef, mixing with onion and breaking it up into bits with a fork. Cook until no longer red.
• Add spinach. Mix well. Cook, stirring for 3 to 4 minutes, until spinach has wilted. Add salt to taste. Mix a dash of Tabasco with eggs, then pour eggs over beef. Stir until eggs set. Transfer mixture to a warm platter, and sprinkle with cheese.

JOE'S SPECIAL SCRAMBLE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the ground beef, and cook, stirring to crumble, until no longer pink, about 8 minutes. Pour off any excess grease, then stir in the garlic, onions, and mushrooms. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and cook until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the nutmeg, oregano, spinach, salt, and pepper and cook until the spinach is heated through.
• Reduce heat to medium-low, and make 6 egg-sized indentations into the beef and spinach mixture. Crack the eggs into the each indentation, then cover, and continue cooking until the eggs are done to your liking, about 5 minutes more for medium.

SAN FRANCISCO NEW JOE'S SPECIAL

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat the oil and saute the onion until it is limp.
• Add meat and seasonings and stir to break up meat while it cooks. Drain off excess fat.
• Stir in spinach and cook until it wilts.
• Stir in the beaten eggs, stirring and cooking until eggs are set.