Why am I doing this?

Several people have been asking me to give them copies of my recipes for certain dishes and asking me to make them other dishes, so I decided to create a blog with my recipes. Feel free to use any of these and edit them to your taste.

Disclaimer

I am now back in TEXAS so some recipes will be updated to show local ingredients. However, the below disclaimer is still true...I have created all these through trial and error.

All of these recipes have been made by me (or my family and revised by me) prior to me moving to Hawaii. However, since I have been in this beautiful state I have been able to buy fresher and more varied ingredients to revise these recipes to allow for a new twist on old favorites. If you do not have fresh ingredients available please use what you do have, or in most cases I have listed options, to create your own special everyday meal.







Sunday, May 26, 2019

Not your expected Meatloaf

Meatloaf can be a quick, easy, no fuss meal. It's great to assemble the night before then pop in the oven after work for an easy dinner (while getting kids settled after a long day :-) ) This is the meatloaf I've been serving my kids for years and they love it. I recently found out my grandkids like it too. There is no tomatoey taste or that ketchup taste some don't like and it always turns out moist :-)

Ingredients:
1 to 1.5 lbs ground beef (I prefer 90/10 but 80/20 works too, just remember there will be more grease)
1/2 to 3/4 cup bread crumbs (or crackers, panko, etc.) I use seasoned bread crumbs from Kroger brand or progresso brand (depends on price for me)
1 egg
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
garlic powder- a dash to a tablespoon depends on your taste
onion powder- same as above
1/4 cop minced onions (delete if don't like)
1 cup or so of favorite BBQ sauce
1 teaspoon natures seasoning (or 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 pepper)
1 packet lipton beefy onion soup mix (or beefy mushroom or onion or onion mushroom or just beef---depends on your taste)

blend all ingredients except beef and bread crumbs, mix well
using hands (or a fork if you don't want hands dirty :-)  ) mix in beef mixing well, add bread crumbs a little at a time until beef is moist but workable for a loaf

place beef mixture in a loaf pan or any lipped baking pan and bake for 30 minutes at 350.  Add a smidge of BBQ sauce on top and bake another 5 minutes (you can also add cheese on top but Ken doesn't like it so I don't)

Take out of over and let sit for 5 minutes then slice and serve. Resting the loaf makes it easier to slice.

Remember you can mix ahead and vacuum pack and freeze to make later. If you freeze add 10 minutes to cook time from frozen.

You can also make head, vacuum pack and freeze (when cool) for a quick toss in the microwave meal (5 minutes on high)


Options:
Sometime I use other ingredients depending on my mood. They are:
cayenne pepper or habanero pepper powder
cheese- shredded cheddar, shredded mozzarella, or your fav cheese (I love it with Gruyere)
diced jalapenos
bacon :-)




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