Adventure three: COWBOY STEW

Angela's Recipe: Cowboy Chili

Ingredients:
1.5 lbs ground beef, browned and drained

6 med potatoes, washed and cubed

1 med onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, diced

1/2 green bell pepper, diced

1 can ranch style beans, slightly drained

1 can corn kernels, drained

2 cans tomatoes with green chilis

salt to taste

pepper to taste

Put it all in the crockpot on high 4-6 hours.

-Angela Welker, after looking at many cowboy style recipes

Review: Delicious, I loved it. I used 1 can medium and 1 can mild tomatoes with green chilis. Topped with cheese, which was awesome. 

Danielle's Recipe: Cowboy Casserole

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1 1/2 lbs ground chuck, browned and drained
• 6 medium potatoes, sliced
• 1 can red beans, drained
• 1 can tomatoes and 1 can tomato soup
• salt and pepper
• garlic
• can of green chilis
• can of corn with juice
• 1/2 cup water

Preparation:

Put chopped onion in the bottom of the slow cooker/Crock Pot; layer with browned ground beef, sliced potatoes, beans, green chili, corn. Dump tomatoes and soup over all. Mix in crock pot with salt, pepper and garlic as desired. Cover and cook on low for 7 to 9 hours. Serves 4 to 6.

COMMENTS:  Turned out ok, potatoes took a while to soften-probably WOULDN'T reccomend!

Adventure Two: MEATLOAF

Angela's Recipe: Sausage Meatloaf

Ingredients:

Meatloaf-
1.5 lbs ground beef
2 hot Italian sausage links
1/4 green bell pepper, diced
1/2 small white onion, diced
1 large clove garlic, diced
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1/4 t pepper
1/4 t basil
1/4 t salt
2 slices white bread
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs

Glaze-(can make a double batch if desired)
1/4 cup ketchup
1 t mustard
1.4 T brown sugar


Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Soak bread in milk
3. Mix all ingredients (including milk and bread) well in a large bowl.
4. Put mix in a 9x4 bread pan and cook for 45 minutes.
5. Take out of oven, scoop off fat.
6. Cover top with glaze and cook for 15-25 minutes more until internal temp is 160.

-Angela Welker, new meatloaf recipe with ingredients had at home

Review: Nice subtle spice. Great with the glaze. Chad prefers my regular meatloaf, but I really liked this.

Danielle's Recipe: Rotel Meatloaf

INGREDIENTS

• 1 egg
• 1  pound ground beef
• 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers (such as RO*TEL®), undrained
• 1/2 sleeve ritz 1/2 sleeve saltines
• 1 tbs onion
• 1  tsp garlic powder, or to taste
• 1 1/2 tsp seasoned salt, or to taste
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper, or to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Beat the egg in a mixing bowl, then add the ground beef, tomatoes, and crushed crackers. Season with onion flakes, garlic powder, seasoned salt, and pepper. Mix until evenly combined. Pack into a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).

   I'M NOT A BIG MEATLOAF FAN, IT HAD GOOD FLAVORING BUT WAS TOO MOIST DIDNT NEED ALL ROTEL JUICE and need to double recipe to fill pan