Saturday, January 12, 2013

Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf


I made this bacon wrapped meatloaf a few nights ago and it was quite delicious. I had never made meatloaf before so I used my moms recipe for the meatloaf and then I just put my bacon in brown sugar to make candied bacon to wrap around it. Here's the recipe, enjoy!

Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf

Ingredients:

2 lbs lean ground beef
1 lb ground pork
1/2 cup oats
1 cup brown sugar barbeque sauce separated in half
2 eggs
2 TB Worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp pepper
8 slices bacon cut in half
4 TB brown sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 9 x 13 inch pan with non stick cooking spray.

In a large bowl mix ground beef, ground pork, oats, eggs, 1/2 cup barbeque sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, garlic powder, and pepper together until well mixed with your hands.

Shape into a loaf and put into sprayed pan.

Next pour the other 1/2 cup of the barbeque sauce over the meatloaf. 

Take your bacon slices and put into brown sugar.

Put in a pan and cook for 2 minutes to render some of the fat.  

Next, lay the slices of bacon over the top of the meatloaf.

Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until it reaches 150 to 155 internal degrees.

Serves 6, unless it's at my house with 2 24 year old man-children, in which case you'll get about 4 servings.

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I did!  We always love hearing from you. 

Go get your grub on!!!
Charly

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Friday, January 11, 2013

Mimosa's For Friday's Happy Hour


I love New Years morning, because it means Mimosas in our house with our breakfast.  We have our champagne on New Years Eve, and then we have Mimosas the next morning.  They are so good and a great way to use up the leftover champagne.  I hate having it go to waste.  

Mimosas For Friday's Happy Hour or Sunday Brunch

Ingredients:

Champagne
Orange Juice

Directions:

Fill a champagne glass half full with champange.

Next, fill the rest of the glass with orange juice. 

You now have a Mimosa.  Wasn't that easy, and it is so tasty too.  It would also be great for Sunday Brunch.  I always love hearing from you.

Have a great weekend!!!
Debi
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

5 Hot Cocoa Recipes Part 1



Welcome to the first annual Winter Fun Blog Walk
We now have Six Blogs participating and we are so excited to share our fun posts with you.






The  Winter Fun Blog Walk will be in the sidebar of each blog for the month of January,
We hope you take a walk on through each post and see what fun things are happening out there.

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I found these 5 Hot Cocoa Recipes in the Taste of Christmas Cook Book Hot Cocoa and Other Wintry Beverages published by Barbour Publishing at my local Lifeway Christian Bookstore.  I fell in love with the recipes when I looked at this cookbook and since it was only $4.99, I bought it to share some recipes with all of you this winter.  They are all pretty easy and straight forward, and I think you'll enjoy them during this winter season.

So here we go for today 5 Hot Cocoa Recipes.



1.  World's Best Hot Cocoa

Ingredients

1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup sugar ( I use stevia in the raw or splenda
1/3 cup hot water
1/8 tsp salt
4 cups milk
3/4 tsp vanilla

Mix cocoa, sugar or stevia, hot water, and salt in a pan until it boils.   Boil for 1 minute, then add milk and heat until hot, but not boiling.  Remove from heat and add vanilla.  Stir well and serve.
Serves 5

2.  Creamy Dreamy Hot Cocoa

Ingredients:

1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
1/2  cup cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
6 1/2 cups hot water

Mix sweetened condensed milk, cocoa powder, vanilla, salt in a pan.  Next add hot water.  Heat on stove until hot, but not boiling.  Stirring frequently.
Serves 8



3.  Hot Chocolate Eggnog

Ingredients:

4 cups eggnog
1/2 cup chocolate syrup
1/4 tsp nutmeg
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
Whipped Cream
nutmeg to sprinkle on top of whipped cream

Mix eggnog, chocolate syrup, and nutmeg in a pan and heat until hot not boiling. Once hot, remove from heat and add vanilla.  Pour into 4 mugs and top with whipped cream and nutmeg.
Serves 4

4.  Double Marshmallow Hot Cocoa

Ingredients

4 cups milk
1 1/4 cups marshmallow cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
miniature marshmallows

Mix milk, marshmallow cream, sugar, cocoa powder, and salt to a pan and start stirring.  Heat over medium heat stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves.  Turn heat to low and keep cooking and stirring until most of marshmallow cream dissolves, but not completely.  Leave some marshmallow chunks.  Once hot, remove from heat and pour into mugs.  Add miniature marshmallow on top and serve.
Serves 5

5.  Chocolate Mint cocoa

Ingredients:

10 oreos  coarsely chopped
3 cups milk
1/2 cup chocolate syrup
1/2 tsp peppermint extract

Add all ingredients into a blender, and blend until smooth.   Pour into a pan and heat until hot, but not boiling, stirring frequently.  Pour into mugs and serve.
Serves 3 to 4


I loved all of the recipes and I hope you do too.  These will make such delicious winter drinks, so have fun and enjoy.  I always love heaing from you.

Enjoy!!!
Debi and Charly

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