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Best Veggie Dip

For Easter I had to bring a veggie tray and I wanted to find a really good dip. This was a hit and I should have made a double batch. :) Enjoy!

http://thisoldfarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/best-veggie-dip-ever.html

Time flies! Meatloaf

Sorry I haven't posted on this blog forever. Honestly, it just hasn't been a priority... at all :) Sorry about that!

But, here you go, a recipe that is worth repeating. I can't remember if I've put it on this blog, but I don't really care to go investigate, either! So there!! Ha ha.

It's super easy, my kids eat thirds if I let them & it's FAST. A warning for you, though. It's not a set recipe. It's just kind of adapted from "a little of this, a little of that..." Have fun & make it your own if you want to.

Mindee's Meatloaf

Spray or grease a 9x12 casserole dish & preheat oven to 350 before doing everything else. It's best to completely defrost the hamburger, without the use of a microwave, but it still works if you forgot to take it out of the freezer the night before :)

Meatloaf:

1 lb ground beef
2-3 cups of oats
3/4 cup bread crumbs (really, the crumbs, not just chunks of bread :)
some Worcestershire sauce (to taste)
1/4 tsp onion powder
2-3 eggs (2 large OR 3 medium)

• Mix in a bowl, by hand (more like "squish" in a bowl, with your hands!)
-form a loaf out of the meat and place it in the casserole dish to wait for the sauce.

Sauce:

Tomato Sauce
Ketchup
Barbecue sauce
Tiny bit of Mustard
LOTS of Brown sugar

• don't really have set amounts for this, so it's mostly experimental! Just keep tasting it until it tastes like you want it to. I usually have one of the small cans of tomato sauce, a cup & 1/2ish of ketchup, a cup-ish of BBQ sauce, SMALL squirt of mustard & a Holy TON of brown sugar. Probably close to 2 cups!
• Mix the sauce ingredients together with a fast whisking & pour it over the meatloaf.
• The meatloaf should pretty much be drowning in sauce, trust me :)

Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes, until beef is done.

We like to serve it with a small baked potato & some sweet corn. Have fun!

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

So, I was "stumbling" and I found this recipe. I think I want to try it for Sunday morning breakfast. I thought I would post it in case anyone else would like to also.



Pancakes:
2 cups pancake mix
3 eggs
1/4 c. oil
1 T. powdered sugar
1 1/4 c. milk

Cinnamon Filling:
1 stick softened butter - almost melty
1 c. packed brown sugar
2 T. cinnamon
(mix all together and pour into a large pastry bag or ziplock bag with a small hole in the bottom.)

Cream Cheese Icing:
2 c. powdered sugar
2 ounces cream cheese
1 t. vanilla
4 T. milk
(mix until smooth and pour into a 2nd pastry bag or ziplock.)

recipe files

Ok, so this will probably take me off of the list of bloggers to post on this site for a while since the pdf file below titled "All Recipes" is just that - all my recipes. There are a little over 60 - and some are other family recipes as well. Just a note - unless you want to try it...be my guest...the talapia marinade at the end is disgusting - it wasn't mine and we tried it and - yuck! so, ignore that one.

Below that is a pdf my mom sent me of a TON of copycat recipes. I haven't tried any but they sound delicious! Enjoy!

So the program I embedded these with is called Scribd and you can download or print in the top left corner - I would recommend just downloading these for now.

Oh, and I just posted a brine for pork chops, don't miss that one!

All Recipes

Cookbook