friday fun #21

I couldn't hardly find anything this week... Finally choose to do this one from Fun, Crafts, and Recipes.

#1. What’s your favorite food smell? Mmmm... that would be freshly baked bread.
#2. What’s your favorite kind of apple? A really tart Granny Smith that has been in the fridge so it's nice and cold.
#3. What veggies do you like in your salad? At a salad bar I add spinach, romaine, mushrooms, baby corn, peas, broccoli, pickled okra, and pretty much everything besides celery.
#4. Share a recipe that uses beef. See below...

Sausage Meatloaf

• 1 green bell pepper, seeded and cubed
• 1 med onion, roughly chopped
• 1 1/4 lbs ground beef
• 1 lb mild pork sausage
• 1 1/2 C cracker crumbs
• 1 envelope dry onion soup mix
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/2 tsp dried sage
• 1 1/2 C milk
• 1/2 C ketchup (optional - I don't use it - try BBQ sauce instead!)
  

Preheat the oven to 350*.

Finely chop the pepper and onion. Transfer to a large bowl. Add the ground beef, ground pork, cracker crumbs, onion soup mix, salt, pepper, sage and milk. Mix well using your hands, or if you have a stand mixer, mix using the paddle attachment. Transfer to a 9x5 inch loaf pan and form into a loaf, mounding in the center. Cover with a generous layer of ketchup.

Bake for 1 1/2 hours in the preheated oven. About halfway through you may need to pour some of the fat off so that it doesn't boil over.