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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.

Greek Turkey Burgers with Spinach, Feta & Tzatziki

21 Sunday Mar 2021

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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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.

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Pressure Cooker Beef Veggie Soup

22 Tuesday Sep 2020

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2020, Dinner, Gary & Trish, Instant Pot, Lunch, Soup

We were visiting Gary and Trish in January 2019 at their home in Minnesota. It gets a bit on the cool side there at that time of year.

Gary made this soup for us. Man, it was so tasty, perfect for the chilling weather, and it was fast to prepare. Since that visit, we’ve made it a few more times and it’s just as good as the first time we ate it.

The recipe that follows is basically unchanged from what Gary provided to us. Yes, it’s odd for us to not made several changes to any given recipe, but this one is just excellent the way it is.

Fair warning; this makes a fair amount that will feed 6 to 8 with no problem. So if you’re cooking for two, go ahead and make it, but have your storage containers ready to save the leftovers for another day as this soup freezes very well.

One last thing before we head into the recipe, this one came from The Foodie Eats. Here is a direct link to the recipe on their site

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Brandon Pettit’s pizza dough

06 Sunday Sep 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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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.

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Pizza Dough – Green Mountain Grills

04 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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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.

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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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Autumn Rice Bowl

26 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2019, Dinner, Grandpa Ed, Lunch

Grandpa Ed provided a couple of recipes for the 2019 recipe collection. If you enjoy rice bowls, give this one a try!

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Garlic Roasted Chicken Leg Quarters

26 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2019, Chicken, Dinner, Grandpa Ed

Image by Deborah Breen Whiting from Pixabay

Roasted chicken is just plain good eating. Here’s a recipe from my Dad, AKA Grandpa Ed. Like most good food, this is a simple recipe with little prep that will yield a great meal. Thanks, Dad!

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Oven Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu

26 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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2019, Chicken, Dinner, Ham, Wanda

My sister Wanda submitted this one for the 2019 edition of our family recipe collection. I’ve made chicken cordon bleu in the past but never with this methold. Sure looks to be way easier than rolling up each chicken breast. I also like the dijon parm sauce that’s included in the recipe. This is one I’m going to try!

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Shepherd’s Pie

26 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by Dave Walczak in Recipes

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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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