My Mom’s Best All Beef Meat Loaf

My Mom’s Best All Beef Meat Loaf

Prep time 15 min  -  Total time 120 min

Ingredients for 8 servings

•         2 lbs Ground Beef (Best to use fresh and not frozen---frozen tends to fall apart)  

•         1 Small finely chopped Onion  

•         I Egg Lightly Beaten  

•         1/2 Cup Cracker Crumbs, Bread Crumbs or Quick Cooking Oatmeal (this makes a creamier textured meatloaf)  

•         1/2 Can of Tomato Soup. Reserve the rest in the can for the topping. Recipe for that will follow

Directions

Mix all ingredients together well. Shape into loaf and put in Loaf Pan.

Make a channel in the top of the meatloaf to pour topping into.

**Topping: Add 3 TBLS Brown Sugar, and fill the can to the top with Catsup. Mix well and pour over the meatloaf.

Bake for 11/2 hours at 350 degrees.

**Make a gravy if you wish (the fat tends to separate from the tomato sauce). Pour drippings from pan into pot and heat until boiling, Add 1 teaspoon flour and stir until thickened.

Serve with Mashed Potatoes or Rice, Rolls and a Vegetable.

  

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

Hamburger Cabbage And Apple Goulash

Hamburger Cabbage And Apple Goulash

I had fresh hamburger, but was all out of ideas on how to cook it besides just hamburgers.  So I put the question up on my Facebook page and got some great ideas.  I did not use them though and I had thought of something as I was cooking up the hamburger in the skillet.  Well I rummaged through my refrigerator and came up with this dish.  My husband loved it.  He had two large helpings.  There was just enough to put in individual containers for our lunches today.  Here is how I made it:

Ingredients:

1 ½ pounds of fresh Ground Beef or Hamburger

I/2 Head of Large Cabbage, diced

1 Large Onion, diced

1 Large Apple, diced

¼ Bag of Wide Egg Noodles

1 Packet of Mushroom or Brown Gravy Mix made as directed on the packet.

Directions:

Cook about 1 ½ pounds of ground-beef in the skillet.  Drain when half cooked. 

While this is cooking chop up about a half of a head of Cabbage, One large onion and one large apple (any kind you wish).

Add the Onions and the Cabbage 1 ½ cups of water and about ¼ bag of Noodles.  Cook until the noodles are soft. 

Add a packet of Mushroom or Brown Gravy Mix to 1 cup of water and mix well.  Pour over the Beef and Vegetables.  Let that simmer a few minutes so the gravy is a little thickened.

Add the apples turn off the heat and put the lid on it.  Let it stand for about 5 minutes.  You do not want it to stand too long or the apples become mush.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

Summer Sandwiches

Banana Sandwich

There are two variations that our family eat. There are more ways to make a banana into a sandwich then the ways that we eat them in our home. Here are the two that we eat.

On one side of the bread spread a liberal amount of peanut butter. On the other half spread a small bit of butter on it. Peal the banana and then break it into halves. Slice in lengthwise and place the slices across the bread and then put the other slice buttered side inside. There you have it. Simple but delicious.

The other variation is just use butter on both sides.

Other variations could include sprinke cinnamon sugar on the peanut butter and then put the two side together wtih the banana in the middle.

Vidalia Onion Sandwich

 My mom used to love these vidalia onion sandwiches.  She would eat them many times during the summer.

She would just spread two slices of bread with mayonaise and put a large thick slice of raw vidalia onion in between and eat it just like that!

I can eat cooked onion but raw seems to give me an upset stomach.  I don't know how she could eat them like that.

Raw Ground Beef Sandwich

Most people will tell you that this is dangerous and can give one worms and all kinds of things. can tell you that my father ate these many, many times during his life and he never got anything from them.  He started eating them when he was a teen and now he is over 60 and still eats them!

All he did was take two slices of bread and put a handful of raw ground beef between them and add salt and pepper.

I wouldn't ry this but he says they were delicious and he has never gotten sick from eating them..

Tomato Sandwich

This is a very good sandwich to make from fresh tomatoes from your garden.  The best kinds of tomatoes are Beefsteak Tomatoes for this sandwich.

I take two slices of bread, spread them with Miracle Whip, put a thickly sliced tomato on it, add a bit of sugar and salt and pepper.  They are so good that I often have two of them.  You can add a slice of onion from your garden and some lettuce too, but I prefer it with just the tomato.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere