Let the fight begin. George the brainless kitten is hiding beside Panthea on the couch and jumping up to attack Elisha the adult cat who makes like five of him, and the little dogs are watching like it’s the cartoon channel. Earlier in the evening, our 10 month old grandson, Devin stopped by for dinner. I mean he ate 2 hotdogs, elbow macaroni, stuffing and 2 cookies, not to mention the banana he had before dinner. I have no idea where he put it. By now, most of you are saying, “What’s he babbling about?” The answer: the joys of working from home. You know, those things you miss when you work at one of those , 40 hours a week things.
Here the nay-sayers go again, “Oh it’s one of those scams!” The problem with the ones screaming “scam” is, they want to get paid for not working. Now if the Better Business Bureau has accredited a business with a very good rating, are you going to believe them? I hope so. After three decades of being a police officer and an investigator for a county attorney’s office, I know the legal definition of a scam. However, the average person doesn’t have the resources available to them that a police officer does. So let the Better Business Bureau do the work for you. Yes, they investigate work from home opportunities as well as traditional businesses. If a business opportunity is legit, the Better Business Bureau will tell you. If it’s a scam, or risky, they’ll tell you that also.
I’ve worked a nine to five type job, also shift work, and I’ve had to work on holidays, and my children’s birthdays. While I could support a family and put food on the table, I missed out on a lot of things. And no, just because it’s always been done that way, doesn’t mean we have to continue that way. We’re supposed to learn from our mistakes, right? Charles F. Ketering, an American Engineer and Inventor (1876-1958) said it this way; “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” I mean, I hope I learn as I get older, don’t you?
So now I earn an income from home and still have time to try new recipes on the family. Sooner or later I have to find the right one to drive the kids out of the house. The trouble I have, is the recipes are too good, and the kids won’t leave. See what you think about this one.
Seejay’s Meatloaf
Over time, I’ve taken some different recipes for meatloaf and combined the parts I like, and found that my family likes also. Now this isn’t that high school meatloaf that tastes like card board and gives meatloaf a bad name, but on the other hand, maybe it’s too good. My family is yelling for more.
Ingredients
- Meatloaf:
- 1 cup Whole Milk
- 1 Vidalia Sweet Onion finely chopped or diced
- 1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- ½ Green Bell Pepper finely chopped or diced
- ½ Red Bell Pepper finely chopped or diced
- ½ Yellow Bell Pepper finely chopped or diced
- ½ range Bell Pepper finely chopped or diced
- 3 or 4 Sticks of Celery finely chopped or diced
- 3 or 4 Cloves of Fresh Garlic, minced or finely chopped
- 2 tbsp
Dijon - 5 or 6 slices of Bread of your choice (Saltine Crackers may be used also)
- 2 pounds Ground Beef
- 1 cup (heaping) Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese
- ¼ teaspoons Seasoned Salt
- ¾ teaspoons Kosher Salt
- Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- ⅓ cups chopped Fresh Flat-leaf Parsley
- 3 whole Eggs Beaten
- 10 slices Thin/regular Bacon
- Sauce:
- 1-½ cup Ketchup
- ⅓ cups Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Dry Mustard
Preparation Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Put the bread in a bowl and pour the milk over the bread and let it soak for a few minutes.
Place the ground beef in a large bowl
Add the chopped onion, chopped bell peppers, chopped celery, Dijon
Now hopefully your hands are clean. Using your hands, combine all of the ingredients until mixed well. Using a Roasting pan or broiler pan, form the mixture into a loaf shape. Aluminum foil under the loaf helps keep the mess under control, just be careful not to overcook the loaf or it will stick to the foil. Aluminum foil doesn’t taste very good. I found that the traditional loaf pans are not big enough for my family.
Once you have the loaf shaped, make your sauce. Add ketchup, brown sugar and dried mustard into a mixing bowl and give it a good mix.
Add a layer of sauce onto the loaf, and then lay the strips of bacon over the loaf, tucking the ends under the loaf. Now pour another layer of the sauce over the bacon strips. Spread with a knife or spoon.
It takes about an hour to cook, remember oven temperatures vary. After about 45 minutes, you can add another layer of the sauce on the loaf it you like, and then cook for another 15 minutes. Then serve and get out of the way. I made three of these for a family get together, and they ate every bite.
No comments:
Post a Comment