• About
  • Contact Me…

The Walczak Family Recipe Collection

~ A Blog about our Family Recipes

The Walczak Family Recipe Collection

Tag Archives: Colleen

Colleen’s Meatloaf

23 Friday Dec 2022

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

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.

Tzatziki

21 Sunday Mar 2021

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

2021, Colleen, Sauce

Photo credit: Alesia Kozik

Here’s the tzatziki recipe referenced in our turkey burger recipe. It’s a simple recipe but tastes so good.

As normal, we added the source recipe slightly to our liking. For the original recipe, please follow this link to the Cookie + Kate website for not only this recipe but many other yummy ones!

Continue reading →

Greek Turkey Burgers with Spinach, Feta & Tzatziki

21 Sunday Mar 2021

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

2021, Colleen, Dinner, Lunch, Turkey

I wasn’t a big fan of turkey burgers. They were always so dry and tasteless. I’m sure sawdust would have been just as good.

Source: EatingWell.com, February 2018

Then Colleen made turkey burgers with this recipe. I admit I was skeptical but was willing to give it a try based on the ingredients. Man, this is some really tasty eats! It won me over.

This recipe, unlike most of the others, is unaltered. The original recipe can be found here and makes 4-quarter-pound plus burgers.

So, if you’d had turkey burgers and thought they were inedible, give this one a try and see if it changes your mind.

Continue reading →

Carolina Pimento Cheese Chicken Salad

17 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

2021, Chicken, Colleen, Lunch

Photo by Alesia Kozik from Pexels

This is some excellent tasting chicken salad. The original recipe is from Cook’s Country and was published in 2007. As our norm, Colleen took the base recipe and adjusted it to our liking.

The recipe calls for cayenne pepper. Some may be hesitant to add it but we recommend not eliminating it. The small amount doesn’t add heat but does provide a subtle flavor that really makes all the difference.

This works well to serve on top of a salad, make a sammie, or put it on crackers while you enjoy a beverage at the end of your day!

Ingredients

½ cup shredded cheddar cheese

1 stalk of celery, chopped

½ cup mayonnaise

1 small jar pimentos, chopped and drained

2 tablespoons sour creama

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 garlic clove , minced

2 to 3 cups cooked boneless, skinless chicken breast

Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

  • We shred the chicken by using our KitchenAid mixer. Break each chicken breast into a couple of smaller pieces. Toss into the mixer bowl with the paddle blade. Turn on low and let run until the desired level of shredding, about 45 seconds to 1-minute.
  • Combine cheese, mayonnaise, pimentos, sour cream, lemon juice, cayenne, and garlic in a large bowl. Add chicken and toss until coated. Season with salt and pepper. Serve or cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.

Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies

13 Friday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

2020, Colleen, Cookies

Image from Land-O-Lakes

Here’s another great cookie recipe!

My Colleen is an excellent baker and this recipe is one of her grandchildren’s favorites. I kinda like it, too!

The cookies are bite-sized ones with a buttery, melt in your mouth taste. Yummy!

We’re not sure where this recipe came from as it’s from the late 70s to early 80s. We know that the recipe came with cookie press from the timeframe.

Let’s make some cookies!

Continue reading →

Brandon Pettit’s pizza dough

06 Sunday Sep 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

2020, Colleen, Dave, Dinner, Pizza

Here’s a second pizza dough recipe and it’s one that we prefer over the Green Mountain version that I posted here. This recipe hasn’t been changed from the original one (very odd for us!)

While browsing food items in the Flipboard app, we came across this one from the Seattle Times and decided to give it a try. We enjoyed the ease of making, how it bakes in our pizza oven, the great chew and taste. It’s perfect in our opinion.

Continue reading →

Rich and Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing

04 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

2020, Colleen, Dressinngs

We love making fresh stuff and that includes dressings. It just tastes so much better than the store bought varieties. The great thing is that it doesn’t take much time to put this together.

This recipes comes from our friends at Allrecipes. Here’s the link to the original version. Yes, our version has a few changes that we believe makes it even better.

Continue reading →

Pizza Dough – Green Mountain Grills

04 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

2020, Colleen, Dave, Dinner, Lunch, Pizza

Photo by Malidate Van from Pexels

This recipe comes from our friends at Green Mountain Grills. We purchased our grill in 2019 and love using it. One accessory we purchased was the pizza oven attachment. I reviewed it in the pizza sauce recipe. We love the sauce and their pizza dough recipe is pretty good. If you want to see the recipes from their site, follow this link to the pizza oven attachment manual and then scroll towards the end of the PDF.

Continue reading →

The BEST Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

30 Sunday Aug 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

2020, Breakfast, Colleen

Photo by Matheus Gomes from Pexels

It’s not often we’ll make pancakes, but when we do, we want to have really good ones. Box mixes just don’t cut for us. So Colleen, tried several recipes and hit upon this one from Trish’s website called Mom On Timeout. It’s an awesome recipe that deletes our taste buds each and every time. So, get to the store and buy that buttermilk!

Continue reading →

Minestrone

08 Friday Feb 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

2019, Colleen, Dinner, Soup, Vegetarian

My lady, Colleen, made this soup for me in early 2018. I took a sip and was wowed by the taste. We’ve made it several times since and I love the taste just as much as the first time.

I made this for my son and his family shortly after the first time Colleen made it for me. It turned out well except for a small boo-boo. When I purchased the spinach, I didn’t do a good job of reading the label. Instead of baby spinach, I picked out a spinach and kale combo. It worked but I didn’t care for the texture of the kale in the soup. Anyway, on to the recipe!

Continue reading →
← Older posts

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 50 other subscribers

Categories

  • Christmas Collections
  • Recipes

Top Posts

  • Milwaukee Pork Chops
  • Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies

Archives

  • December 2022 (1)
  • March 2021 (4)
  • November 2020 (1)
  • September 2020 (5)
  • August 2020 (1)
  • December 2019 (13)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)
  • February 2019 (8)
  • January 2019 (67)

Search Recipes by Tags

1998 1999 2007 2009 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 American Appetizer Bacon BBQ Sauce Beef Bread Breakfast Chicken Chocolate Chowder Clam Cleaning Hacks Cocktail Colleen Cookies Cooking Hacks Copy Cat Corn Crab Dave Dessert Dinner Dip Dressinngs Eggs Fish Gary & Trish Gluten free Grandpa Ed Gravy Ham Homemade condiments Index Instant Pot Jaymi Jen Jessica Joseph Korean Kristie Lunch Mexican Mom Pasta Pizza Pork Potato Salad Sauce Sausage Seafood Seasoning Shrimp Side Dish Snacks Soup Spicy Tracy and Vern Turkey Vegan Vegetable Vegetarian Venison Wanda

Website Powered by WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • The Walczak Family Recipe Collection
    • Join 50 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Walczak Family Recipe Collection
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...