More Food! Noms!

 I love easy meals! This is a very easy meal to prepare and can even make plenty of leftovers. That is if you don't eat it all first!

The ingredients:

•  Carrots (I prefer baby carrots, but any will work)

• onion (half or whole and your choice on what type. I prefer sweet onions for pretty much everything)
• cream of celery or mushroom (enough to coat all ingredients)
• Spicy breakfast sausage or deer sausage (spicy is key. The carrots and potatoes will absorb a lot of spice
  
  
  
  
• Potatoes (you can use sweet potatoes, but prepare for the dish to be sweeter and pre-cook them some)

And if you have a handy dandy slicing KitchenAid attachment, use it, it will speed up your cook time and your preparation time! Otherwise you'll need to chop your carrots, onions, and your potatoes.

Brown your sausage. I normally use two packages of sausage if I want leftovers.

    Combine all ingredients together and mix until coated with your cream of celery or mushroom.

    Bake at 400 degrees until potatoes and carrots are soft. This will take about an hour if ingredients are chopped and about half if sliced.

Enjoy!

Let me know how you like it when you make it!

 *Please ignore my lovely paper plate!*

A New Type of Meatloaf

I'm not sure why, but lately my go to spice for hamburger meat has been taco seasoning. It's yummy and goes well with cheese! I had been meaning to try out a pin on Pinterest. (http://pinterest.com/pin/110971578289994325/) And the bell peppers I meant to use to do it went bad faster than expected, so on to something else.

I still wanted to use the cheese and the hamburger meat, but I had no desire to make actual hamburgers. My husband does a cheese stuffed meatloaf with Italian seasoning. It always turns out delicious and no I can't share the recipe! So I decided to try something similar, but with taco seasoning in the hamburger meat. It turned out delicious and this is how you do it:

1lb of hamburger meat (your choice)
taco seasoning (mine says 1/4 cup per 1lb beef)
1 egg
3-4 different types of cheese

Optional:
Black beans (whole is what I used)
Green Chile's or jalapenos (take those seeds out if you don't want it super spicy)

Mix that all together.

Take a bread pan or meatloaf pan and spray it with Pam or coat it with oil.
Spread a little more than a quarter of the meat mix at the bottom

Now is when you will add the cheeses to the center

Once that is done all you need to do is add the rest of the meat and pat it all together.

Cook for 1 hour at 350 degrees

I don't have any pics for you. It was so yummy smelling we immediately cut into it! I'll try and get some for you next time as I'm sure I will make this again!

Cooking and Scrapbooking

I have tons of projects on going and probably always will. My newest project is a scrapbook of my favorite recipes. My husbands' also, but.... he doesn't always share his recipes so it could be hard to add all the details for them.

So far I have two recipes in my personal cookbook. Kourabiedes and Potato and leek soup. Both are absolutely delish and both are recipes that I will, without a doubt, make again. The first page is for my all time favorite cookie. Kourabiedes are a bit involved for my style of baking, but the end results are nommish enough to be well worth it. I love simple cooking and baking and kourabiedes are definitely not as simple as any drop cookie.

The next page was reserved for a recipe that I won't make until next year. Leek and potato soup. And more than likely I'll be trying a friend's recipe before I cook mine again.

There is much to be done to both of these pages. I'd love to have pictures of the food on each page. I also need to find some stencils to stencil the recipe name on each page. I've decide that I'm not writing on any of these pages if I can help it, since my handwriting is not up to my standards.

I'll be adding banana bread, cherry pie, and carrot cake to it soon. So many recipes that need to go in here and many more to come once I start playing with my cupcake recipes.

Now I'm hungry...