Meat Loaf

There are many versions of meat loaf and I'll probably be posting a couple of them. Here is my basic favorite, I'm not a fan of ketchup or BBQ sauce so it's pretty simple. Cary isn't a fan of a lot of bread crumbs and stuff like that in his either.

Meat Loaf
1 lb Ground Beef (or Turkey)
Onion
Celery
Minced Garlic
Horseradish (optional)
Salt
Pepper
Egg
Milk
Flaxseed or Wheat Germ (optional)
Start out with your thawed out meat in a bowl

I put one small Onion, one stalk of Celery, a little bit of minced Garlic, Horseradish, and I puree it with a little bit of milk.

Sprinkle some Salt and Pepper on the meat

Add the Onion puree

Add one Egg

I threw some Wheat Germ in there today.

Mix it all together.

Form a loaf in a pan or on a sheet pan

Bake at 350-375 for 45-60 minutes. The time always varies for me.

Slice and Serve with your choice of sauce.

Roasted Beets

Roasted Beets

Beets
Salt
Pepper
Olive Oil
Garlic & Onion Powder (optional)

The skin looked interesting so I peeled off some of the interesting parts.

I sliced them so they would cook faster

Add your spices

Pour a little bit of Olive Oil, enough to toss the beets and cover.

Spread out on a sheet and I sprinkled a little bit more Salt on here.

Bake at 375 for about 20-30 minutes depending on how soft you want them.

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

I love this stuff!

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

1 c Flour
3/4 c Sugar
2 T Cocoa
2 t Baking Powder
1/4 t Salt
1/2 c Milk
2 T Margarine (shortening)
1 c Chopped Nuts (optional)

Separately Mix:
1 c Brown Sugar
1/4 c Cocoa


1-3/4 c Hot Water


Ungreased 9x9 pan
Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes
Mix Flour, Sugar, Cocoa (1st amount), Baking Powder, Salt.
Mix
Add Milk, and melted Margarine. Mix

Spread into bottom of pan

Next, mix up Brown Sugar and 2nd amount of Cocoa

Spread over batter in pan.

Heat up your Water in the microwave or on the stove and pour over the top of batter and put in oven.

Pull out your Ice Cream in preparation. I recommend this flavor or anything caramely and nutty. :-)

Pull it out of the oven around 30-40 minutes later depending on how puddingly you want it.

Oh yum.

Yum! Yum! Put Ice Cream or Whipped Cream on top and enjoy!

Easy Cheeseburger Pie

So I'd never had this before but apparently it's a classic that's been around a long time. We all thought it was pretty tasty!

Easy Cheeseburger Pie

1 lb ground beef (I used Turkey Sausage)
1 large onion, chopped (1 cup)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese (4 oz)
1/2 cup Biscuit mix
1 cup milk
2 eggs
I added Pepper too, but I like pepper on everything.

1. Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 9-inch glass pie plate with cooking spray.
2. In 10-inch skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown; drain. Stir in salt. Spread in pie plate. Sprinkle with cheese.
3. In small bowl, stir remaining ingredients with fork or wire whisk until blended. Pour into pie plate.
4. Bake about 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Bake 30 to 35 minutes.

Meat and Onion
Brown

Put in greased 9" pie dish, put your cheese over the meat.

Whip up the Eggs and Milk

Add the Biscuit mix and stir

Pour that over the Cheese and Meat.

Bake in oven at 400 for 30 minutes or so.

Peanut Butter Chicken Soup

I got this recipe from my uncle Tim. This soup is awesome! I cooked it in my crockpot though so I did things a little differently.


Peanut Butter Chicken Soup


3 Boneless Skinless chicken breasts
1 Cloves minced garlic
1 Tablespoon curry (or sometimes more, curry works well with chicken and PB)
1 Teaspoon cumin
½ Teaspoon red pepper (or more if you want some zing, I also throw in a little white pepper for the back pallet taste)
½ Cup water
6 Cups chicken broth (4 14 oz cans)
1 Large peeled, diced potato
1 Cup diced carrots
1 Package chopped broccoli
2 14 ounce can peeled, diced tomatoes
1 Cup each: Chopped celery and green pepper (you could use Jalapenos too)

1 Medium sized onion chopped into very small pieces.

1 Cup Extra chunky peanut butter (you can use creamy, but why).
1 Tablespoon minced, fresh parsley (I used dried)
½ Teaspoon black pepper

With a pair of cooking shears cut the chicken breasts into small bite sized pieces. Cook them in a skillet. When the chicken is about half cooked add the curry, cumin, red pepper, onion, garlic and half the peanut butter with about a half cup of water. Stir well and let simmer until the chicken is fully cooked.

In a six quart pan, combine the broth, potatoes and carrots. Bring to a boil and cook it over medium heat until the vegetables are nearly tender, about 10 minutes.

Add the broccoli, tomatoes, celery, and green pepper. Simmer the soup for about 8 minutes.

Add the remaining peanut butter, parsley and chicken, stirring the soup until the peanut butter is fully blended. Simmer the soup for 3 minutes longer.

Serves 8 hungry people

My pieces of chicken, I waited and diced them while they were cooking.
Got the boullion going in the crockpot

Spiced up the chicken with the Cumin, Garlic, Curry, Red Pepper, Pepper, and water.

Cut up the Chicken as it cooked.

Cut up my Potatoes

Cut up my Carrots

I pureed my Green Pepper and Onion

and Celery

Add all the cut up and pureed Vegetables to the crockpot

Add the Broccoli

Diced Tomatoes

Add the Peanut Butter

Add the cooked Chicken and then let cook in the crockpot.

So good.

When I make this again I'll probably do everything the same, but wait and add the cooked Chicken and maybe half of the Peanut Butter around the last hour of cooking or so. Just so they aren't so cooked and soft, but either way it works.