The Cooking Thread

[quietrob]

When my youngest son was a teenager he got into cooking. We cooked "together" every night. I would actually wash dishes and just instruct him what to do. He's gotten to be an amazing cook as an adult. For about a year we wanted to work out the best meatloaf recipe ever so we cooked a meatloaf once a week for the year. Here's what we came up with.

Two pounds of hamburger
One pound of ground sausage
Bell peppers, different colors
Chitpotle in adobo sauce
Onion
Garlic cut fine
One egg
One loaf of Dutch crust french bread
Pineapple chunks (optional)

Dice up peppers and onion, saute in olive oil until softish. Stir in chitpotle (about two or three), some of the sauce and garlic. Let it cool down, Add hamburger and sausage. Tear up french bread into one inch squares or so. Add to the hamburger, add egg and mix it all together. Bake at about 350 for about 45 minutes to an hour. Makes two good size loafs.

You can add different kinds of peppers depending on how hot you want it, Anaheim whatever.

Man it's soooo good!

And the pineapple worked? Meatloaf is either really good or really bad depending upon the recipe. I think this one sounds like my mom's and that woman could cook!

 

[Janet]

Yah the pineapple worked great. It goes with the sausage.

 

[Lorraine]

Last night I made a brioche bread and butter pudding sans spots. OMG, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. And after I ate the whole lot I really thought I was going to die. Soooo much tummy!

 

[Miss B]

YAY!!! Lorraine is in the house!!! Your Brioche Bread sounds good, but eating the whole thing? That makes my tummy hurt just thinking about it.

I was just thinking about you the past couple of days, as it's been too long since we've seen you here. I hope all is going well with you.

 

[Lorraine]

Hi Miss B! Yeah, I'm well and really going to make a concerted effort to keep in touch here. Sometimes life sucks but I've learned to just wait it out. It took a bit longer this time.