Ground beef folds into two quick meals

Here's a two-fer from Grethe Freed, who has learned over the years what kids like to eat. Both dishes involve a pound of ground beef, a package of crescent rolls and a few other ingredients.

The taco pie is made in a pie tin and the other dish, cheese-topped ground beef "muffins" with a touch of barbecue sauce, are baked in standard-size muffin tins. Both are very easy, and Freed finds them fast to make when her son and his wife and their two kids drop by for supper.

"When they're coming, I make two taco pies, because they go fast," she noted. The muffins pop right out of the tin and look like cupcakes.