New recipes for 2011 - May
I plan our meals a month in advance. This is due to an abhorrence of the 5:30 PM song and dance marking the first few years of our marriage.
"What do you want for dinner?"
"I don't know, what do you want?"
"I don't know."
"What can we have?"
"I don't know."
So much nicer now. I can plan out what to get when stuff is on sale, make sure we don't have the same thing over and over, and occasionally incorporate some comfort food.
Flexibility must be built in, though. Sometimes new recipes flop, or no one shows up for dinner, or good grief you just need a pizza.
Anyhoo, yesterday I decided that what I had planned for dinner was not something I had a taste for. This happens on occasion. And becomes a pantry challenge. To create a meal with ingredients already in the house, but not using ingredients that belong to another meal on the schedule.
You think I'm a nerd, don't you?
You're about to love this nerd.
Mini Meatloaves
3/4 c ketchup
2 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 lb any combination of lean ground beef, turkey, and/or pork
1/2 c Bisquick
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp season salt
1 Tbsp minced onion
1 egg
few dashes garlic powder
Preheat oven to 450°. Grease cups of a muffin tin.
Mix ketchup and brown sugar. Divide out 1/2 cup of that mixture and set aside. To the remaining ketchup mixture, add the rest of the ingredients.
Moosh with your hands until everything is well combined. Fill muffin cups with mixture. (I filled the cups a little past full and got 8 mini meatloaves.)
Spoon set-aside ketchup mixture on top of each mini loaf.
Bake 20-25 minutes at 450°.
Verdict:
Oh my goodness. Seriously. Holy cow.
Notes:
Dairy free! (Though Trey refused to eat it. And when I say refused, I mean cried in refusal until he vomited. But the rest of us, including Aden, gobbled it up quick.) You could very well make this not dairy free by adding cheese, because we all know cheese makes everything better. But this was so scrumptious without it.
Toward the end of the mooshing stage, you may think something is wrong because the mixture is not as formable as most meatloaves. This is a very good thing. Trust me.
Also, beware of distractions during preparation lest your three-year-old sous-chef upend the pepper container over your meat mixture while you're on the phone. (Love you Silly!)
Repeatable:
Oh my goodness. YES!
"What do you want for dinner?"
"I don't know, what do you want?"
"I don't know."
"What can we have?"
"I don't know."
So much nicer now. I can plan out what to get when stuff is on sale, make sure we don't have the same thing over and over, and occasionally incorporate some comfort food.
Flexibility must be built in, though. Sometimes new recipes flop, or no one shows up for dinner, or good grief you just need a pizza.
Anyhoo, yesterday I decided that what I had planned for dinner was not something I had a taste for. This happens on occasion. And becomes a pantry challenge. To create a meal with ingredients already in the house, but not using ingredients that belong to another meal on the schedule.
You think I'm a nerd, don't you?
You're about to love this nerd.
Mini Meatloaves
3/4 c ketchup
2 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 lb any combination of lean ground beef, turkey, and/or pork
1/2 c Bisquick
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp season salt
1 Tbsp minced onion
1 egg
few dashes garlic powder
Preheat oven to 450°. Grease cups of a muffin tin.
Mix ketchup and brown sugar. Divide out 1/2 cup of that mixture and set aside. To the remaining ketchup mixture, add the rest of the ingredients.
Moosh with your hands until everything is well combined. Fill muffin cups with mixture. (I filled the cups a little past full and got 8 mini meatloaves.)
Spoon set-aside ketchup mixture on top of each mini loaf.
Bake 20-25 minutes at 450°.
Verdict:
Oh my goodness. Seriously. Holy cow.
Notes:
Dairy free! (Though Trey refused to eat it. And when I say refused, I mean cried in refusal until he vomited. But the rest of us, including Aden, gobbled it up quick.) You could very well make this not dairy free by adding cheese, because we all know cheese makes everything better. But this was so scrumptious without it.
Toward the end of the mooshing stage, you may think something is wrong because the mixture is not as formable as most meatloaves. This is a very good thing. Trust me.
Also, beware of distractions during preparation lest your three-year-old sous-chef upend the pepper container over your meat mixture while you're on the phone. (Love you Silly!)
Repeatable:
Oh my goodness. YES!
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