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Meatloaf Cupcakes

Meatloaf Cupcakes
Remember when I posted these, and wrote about the instant aversion my kids have towards meatloaf? They can’t get enough meatballs, but when I use that same recipe and make a loaf out of it, something happens. Well, I just solved the problem for all the mothers out there looking to get their kids to eat meatloaf. MEATLOAF CUPCAKES!!!! The other week a friend of mine at work came by to tell me about this awesome bakery in Chicago, called the MeatLoaf Bakery. So – for all your Moms out there – this one is definitely for you. Ingredients Meatloaf 1 teaspoon olive oil1 cup finely chopped onion1/2 cup finely chopped carrot1 teaspoon dried oregano2 garlic cloves, minced1 cup ketchup, divided1 1/2 pounds ground beef, extra lean (raw)1 cup bread crumbs2 tablespoons prepared mustard1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper2 large eggsCooking spray Mashed Potatoes Garnish 3 tablespoons chopped chives4 pieces of bacon cooked and them chopped Preparation Preheat oven to 350°.

Best Danged Beef Pot Roast ~ Crock Pot Ingredients: Small to medium size rump roast 1 envelope onion soup mix 1 envelope brown gravy mix 1 individual size serving apple sauce 2 cups water salt and pepper, to taste 1 small bag sliced carrots 2 medium to large size potatoes, cut up 1/2 yellow onion, sliced 1 stalk celery, sliced Directions: Sear the roast in frying pan with small amount of oil. Set crock pot on low and let it cook for at least 8-10 hours. If you'd rather use this recipe to make stew, simply cut the roast into bite size pieces, then sear in a frying pan the same as the roast. Source: Thrifty-Fun Mom’s Scones My mom has made “scones” my whole life. If you ask any of my siblings what favorite foods they think of when they think of mom and scones will be high on the list. They are family tradition that brings back many warm memories. Even today, Nan still makes her famous scones that are a favorite with all of the grandchildren. So imagine my surprise when I found out that the “scones” we love to eat are not what the rest of the world calls a scone. What!? The scones in Utah are a raised white bread dough deep fried in hot oil, much like Sopapillas or Navajo Fry Bread. But whatever you call them, I call them divine. Here’s how to make them: Combine 1 cup of warm milk and 1 cup of warm water. Add one tablespoon of yeast. Give the yeast a quick stir. Allow the yeast to activate about 10 minutes. You can allow your yeast to activate right in you mixing bowl, but the pyrex was better for showing activated yeast in a photo. Add one tablespoon of salt. And flour. Cut your dough out with a pizza cutter.

101 Fall Freezer Meals The air is cool, the leaves are turning and dreams of soups, stews and chilis are dancing in your head! If ONLY you had time to prepare those fabulous tasting meals for every night of the week. Well you can! Here are our favorite Fall recipes. Complete with freezing instructions, you can make ahead and freeze them for the perfect Fall day. All of the recipes listed are recipes that HAVE NOT appeared on our previous 101 lists - 101 Spring Freezer Meals or 101 Summer Freezer Meals. And don’t forget that we have menus that come out on the 1st of every month for just about everyone! Recipes marked with ** are easy to assemble or require minimal cooking to prepare. Recipes marked + are for the slow cooker. And if you love Pinterest, first of all follow us, second, we created a special board with all of these recipes so that you can get a visual “look” at them. Welcome to Once A Month Meals! Crockpot Mongolian Beef Dinners Cranberry Couscous Salad Lunches Cinnamon Pear Popovers Breakfasts

Homemade Snickers Bars Insanity. That’s what this is. Pure In.San.It.TEEEEE. You know those days when you’re in desperate need of sugar and you’ve already downed more gummy vitamins than recommended while seriously considering how many more you can ingest without causing severe harm to your internal organs? They’re just so gooooood. Well… in that case you should make some homemade snickers bars. And I KNOW you know what I’m talking about. I spent the majority of my pre-pubescent and adolescent years scheming just how I would be able to steal my brothers’ Halloween candy. Then I went through a SERIOUS phase of those Snickers ice cream bars. And that you can eat a million of them. These days, it’s rare that I crave actual candy, often preferring some chewy cookies or super rich cheesecake or a bar of amazing chocolate that costs thrice as much as the recent organic meyer lemons I purchased. They are the peanut butter to my jelly. The salt to my pepper. The broccoli to my… wait, no. And the fabulous part? nougat layer

15 Minute Creamy Avocado Pasta Oh…my….gosh. Alert the grocery store because there is going to be an avocado shortage in my town. Well, more than usual that is. [And yes, I said ‘store’. You can whip up this pasta dish in under 15 minutes flat! Yield3 servings Prep Time Cook time Total Time Ingredients: 9 ounces (255 g) uncooked pasta (use gluten-free, if desired)1 to 2 small cloves garlic, to taste1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, plus more for serving1-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, to taste1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil1 ripe medium avocado, pitted1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon (1 to 2 mL) fine-grain sea saltFreshly ground black pepper, to tasteLemon zest, for serving Directions: Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. I used some fun pasta to increase the nutrition factor- first, 1 serving (3oz) of spelt pasta. Spelt pasta has a great nutritional profile with 12 grams of protein and 3 grams of fibre per serving. I also used one 3oz serving of Kamut pasta. Kamut pasta has 13 grams of protein and 8 grams of fibre per serving.

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes Updated 9/22/11 to Add: If you’re coming here to sample these delicious Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, you just might like the latest recipe that I’ve posted for Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes too. And Gingerbread- Cinnamon Roll Pancakes too. Enjoy! Here’s a short video sharing how to make these delicious pancakes: If you’ve ever thought you needed a reason to eat pancakes, today is the day: National Pancake Day! Eat a short stack for breakfast, enjoy them for lunch, or make a dinner out a manhole-sized pancake… guilt free… because you’re merely celebrating their existence. How do you like your pancakes? But recently I started dreaming about mixing cinnamon rolls and pancakes together… and this is what I came up with- my new favorite pancake: Cinnamon Roll Pancakes. I have a wonderfully fluffy pancake batter that I like to use (recipe below) so I swirled a bit of cinnamon roll filling into the pancake. It’s like eating a cinnamon roll, and no one needs more than one cinnamon roll for breakfast.

Better-Than-Crack-Brownies I’m sorry for doing this to you. I really am. But see, last Friday while I was on a 10-hour road trip heading for vacation, I received this recipe from a reader named Liz. Liz, I love you. That’s all I have to say. I was tortured by this recipe for a full 8 days before I could make it. So it was the first thing I made when I returned home. These are an absolute sin. I really don’t have any words, other than you must try them. They may also change your waistline too. But that’s okay. It’s all in the name of chocolate. Better-Than-Crack Brownies 1 batch brownies (boxed mix or oooey gooey brownies) 1/2 cup salted peanuts (if don’t have salted, add sea salt) 1 cup chopped Reese’s peanut butter cups 1 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips 1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 tablespoon butter 1 1/2 cups Rice Krispies Cereal Mix brownies according to directions, and bake for 20-25 minutes in a 9 x 13 baking dish. While they are finishing baking, melt chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Mr.

S'mores Bites - Two Ways With a Kiss… or with a Rolo, take your pick! Seriously, dessert doesn’t get any easier than this! This definitely has got to be one of my easiest recipes yet, and cutest =). They can be made in 5 minutes or less and they taste just like a S’more, or upgraded S’more if you use Rolo’s. For best results just be sure to eat them right after toasting to get that gooey, toasted, authentic S’mores goodness. Ingredients 6 graham cracker sheets*, or 12 Saltine or Ritz Crackers 6 large marshmallows 12 Hershey's Kisses or Rolos, unwrapped Directions Break graham cracker sheets in half, then cut each half into a circle using a 2 1/4" circle fondant cutter or metal cookie cutter (if using Saltine or Ritz Crackers no cutting needed). Notes *I used a package of graham crackers that had been open for a couple of days, I don't know if this will make a difference to help with easier cutting and less breakage or not.

Healthy Cookie Dough Dip If you received an email from Pinterest saying I didn’t want you to pin my recipes, this is NOT true! I am so sorry for this and have no idea why they would send such messages out! Please accept my apologies… I’m so honored when people pin things from my site or follow my Chocolate Covered Katie Pinterest Board. Healthy Cookie Dough Dip… it’s like an unbaked form of those popular White Bean Chickpea Blondies. I don’t know about you, but when I make the blondies, quite a bit of the raw dough gets consumed in the process! But will “normal” people like it? Often, I’m unsure if a recipe with which I am in love will be a hit with the general population of people who aren’t used to healthy food. The following is directly from my About Chocolate Covered Katie page. I refuse to believe one must give up delicious food in order to be healthy… Healthy food can taste incredible when it’s prepared the right way. I brought this healthy cookie dough dip to a party. Something amazing happened… Ingredients

Thousand Layers Spiral Mooncake | The Waitakere Redneck's Kitchen My last trial of this mooncake was back in 2006. Yes, it took me a good 2 years to get over the 'trauma' and give this another go. Not a mooncake for the fainthearted to attempt. What is tedious is sealing the dough without destroying the spiral pattern. But the end result is very rewarding. Apparently the secret to getting the mooncake to bloom like a snail shell....' The traditional filling for this is yam but there is nothing to stop you from putting your own spin into this by using a lotus or bean paste or whatever takes your fancy. Makes 6 mooncakes IngredientsWater dough75g plain flour20g shortening10g (fine) sugar35g water + 2-3 drops white vinegar Oil Dough65g plain flour40g shortening Method1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Note :These mooncake cannot be kept for long and should be eaten within 2-3 days. Tip :1.

Detox Smoothie « Drinks Yep, that’s a healthy green smoothie? I realize things like these are rather scarce over here, at this little place of mine. But before you start wondering whether I’ve overcome a head injury recently, let me explain what’s going on… I made this smoothie yesterday. Then I did three (3) sit-ups. I was feeling amazing. A new person was born. Today I made a batch of cookies and had two glasses of wine. So everything is back to normal. The new person has grown up rather quickly, it seems. Still I wonder what made me feel better, the alkalizing smoothie or the lovely wine. Need to think it all through. Here’s what you need to prepare this healthy beverage. 1. 2. Minus the seeds. 3. They have rather mild flavor so they won’t affect the final taste of your drink substantially. 4. 5. Fresh ginger is beyond healthy but very flavorful. A little goes a long way. We need just about 1/4 teaspoon. 6. 7. This super detox smoothie is great for alkalizing your system. Enjoy, dear friends.

Chunky Chocolate Cheerios This is one of the most delicious if not the greatest chocolate dessert of all time. Really. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer knocked on Santa’s front door. Santa: “Who’s there?” Rudolph: “It’s me, Rudolph.” Santa: “What do you want, Rudolph?” Freezing in the cold Rudolph replies: “Ch-ch-ch…” Santa: “You want WHAT?” Rudolph: “Chunky Chocolate Cheerios!” And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don’t normally tell any jokes because they tend to be terribly lame! It all started rather innocently on a day that I had this whacky idea to add some Cheerios to the White & Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunks recipe of mine. I posted the recipe along with this by now familiar photo and that was that. Not quite. Always a bit stumped when it comes to gifts I wondered whether gifting these delightful nibbles would work. People went bonkers for it! Chunky Chocolate Cheerios sold out week after week when I ran a stall at the local farm shop. Adds crunch. If you can find another cereal that can do that, go ahead!

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