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Colleen’s Meatloaf

23 Friday Dec 2022

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2023, Beef, Colleen, Dinner

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
  • 1 onion chopped fine
  • 10 ounces of mushrooms diced (we used mini portabellos)
  • 5 garlic cloves minced
  • ⅓ cup low-sodium spicy tomato juice (V-8)
  • ⅔ cup of plain panko bread crumbs
  • 2 pounds of lean ground beef
  • 1 large egg
  • 1.5 tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 1.5 tablespoons of Dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoons of dried parsley
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Optional:

  • Pinch of red pepper flakes
  • ⅛ teaspoon or so cayenne pepper

Glaze:

We use the homemade BBQ sauce that we use for Milwaukee Pork Chops. Or, you can use your favorite store-bought sauce.

Directions

  1. Set the oven rack to the middle position and preheat the oven to 375º. Place parchment paper at the bottom of the sheet pan. Spray a cooking rack with cooking spray (Pam) and then cover it with foil. Pierce the foil in several spots to allow and grease to pass through to the sheet pan. We do this to make clean up easier and the meatloaf isn’t cooking in grease.
  2. Heat oil in a large pot on medium heat and add the onion cooking until softened (about 8 minutes). Add the mushrooms and cook until they release their liquid (about 5 minutes). Increase the heat to medium-high and cook until the liquid is evaporated. Next, add the garlic and cook until fragrant (about 30 seconds). Let the mixture cool while doing the next step.
  3. Whisk egg, soy sauce, mustard, salt, pepper, parsley, and tomato juice in a large bowl. Add the ground beef and combine. Next, add the onion/mushroom mixture to the bowl and mix by hand until evenly combined.
  4. Form the mixture into equal-sized mini loaves (about 7 ounces) and place them on the prepared baking sheet pan.
  5. Place in the oven and cook until the internal temperature is about 150º.
  6. Remove the meatloaf and apply the glaze of your choice.
  7. There are two ways we do the next step; broiler or higher oven temperature.
    • Broiler: Turn the broiler on and broil the meatloaf until the glaze begins to bubble (about 3 minutes).
    • Higher oven temp: Increase oven temperature to 425º. Cook the meatloaf for an additional 5 minutes or until the glaze starts to bubble.
    • Note: with both methods, the meatloaf will continue to cook and will reach an internal temperature of about 160º.
  8. Remove from oven and let sit for about 5 minutes before serving with your favorite sides.

Instant Pot Greek Meatballs and Tomato Sauce

26 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2019, Beef, Dinner, Tracy and Vern

My baby sister, Tracy, is on a roll this year with Instant Pot (IP) recipes. Here’s another one from one of her favorites cooking website call Two Sleevers.

This one looks really good and we’ll have to try it in 2020. While the recipe follows below, here’s the link to it on the Two Sleevers site.

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Shepherd’s Pie

26 Thursday Dec 2019

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2019, Beef, Dave, Dinner, Potato

Got leftover mashed potatoes? Here’s an excellent recipe to use ‘em up. This is a favorite with family and friends here in Delaware.

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Gary and Trish’s Fajitas

09 Wednesday Oct 2019

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2019, Beef, Chicken, Dinner, Gary & Trish, Mexican

While visiting our dear friends Gary and Trisha in September 2019, they made us a fantastic fajita meal. It was fabulous! I mean these are probably the best tasting fajitas we’ve ever enjoyed!

Gary was kind enough to share their recipe with us. And, with their permission, I’m sharing it here. So, give it a try. It’s not hard to make and you’ll be rewarded with a blockbuster dinner!

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Texas Hash

29 Tuesday Jan 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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1998, Beef, Dinner, Tracy and Vern

Photo Credit: A Family Feast

Growing up in Wisconsin, this was one of my favorite meals. It’s just good comfort food.

After I was out on my own, I continued to make it from time to time. It’s been many years since I last made this so it was wonderful to have all the memories come flooding back as I was posting this recipe.

This recipe is part of the 1998 collection. Again, thank you, Tracy, for doing this for our family.

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Beef Birds

29 Tuesday Jan 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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1998, Bacon, Beef, Dinner, Mom, Tracy and Vern

Photo credit: Kevin Pang

In the first edition of the family recipe collection in 1998, Tracy put in her most loved recipes from our childhood. This is another good one that I continued to make after heading out on my own.

Like the Texas Hash, I made this for several years as my own family was growing but it’s been several years since I last made this one. I may have to give it a go in the near future.

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Braised Venison with Rosemary and Mushrooms

20 Sunday Jan 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2016, Beef, Dinner, Jaymi, Venison

My brother-in-law, David, is an avid hunter. Living in Wisconsin, he enjoys all types of hunting to include deer season. For 2016, he and his wife Jaymi provided us with a couple of tasty recipes for venison. If you’re not into venison or can’t get your hands on any, use beef!

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Venison Medallions With Horseradish Cream Sauce

20 Sunday Jan 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2016, Beef, Dinner, Jaymi, Venison

Another recipe from the 2016 collection. If you hunt or know someone that hunts, here’s a great recipe for some of the deer you bagged. If you hunt like me -read that to mean hunt at your local butcher shop- beef works just as well.

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Prime Rib for Two

05 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2017, American, Beef, Dave, Dinner

From Dave (from Cook’s Country)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:

Juicy, ultra-tender prime rib is the ultimate roast beef. To cut its size to suit two, we opted for a 1 1/2-pound, 1 1/2-inch-thick bone- in rib-eye steak. We seared our steak in a hot skillet to develop a crust and then finished cooking it gently in a low 200-degree oven to ensure a perfect medium-rare. While the steak roasted away, we used the fond in the skillet to build a flavorful pan sauce with red wine and beef broth, adding a touch of ketchup. Be sure to brown the edges of the steak to render the fat. You can do this easi- ly by using tongs to hold the steak on its side in the hot pan. SERVES 2 Continue reading →

Spicy Asian Meatballs

05 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2017, Appetizer, Beef, Dave, Spicy

From Dave

This recipe comes from one of my favorite recipe websites: Seonkyoung Longest. She has 3 different sauces for the meatballs and you can find it here. The spicy Asian sauce is my favorite but all are good.

I’ve made the meatballs several times with the most recent being our Holiday Open House in December 2018.  I made them a bit on the spicy side but folks seem to really enjoy them. Continue reading →

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