Meatloaf in the bread machine?

I found this intriguing recipe for bread machine meatloaf that I am going to try. After all who wants to turn the oven on in this heat?


Meatloaf Miracle Recipe
from Zojirushi
For 2 lb. breadmaker
Makes 6-8 servings
1 medium onion, chopped
2 lbs. ground sirloin
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 cup bread crumbs (I used panko instead)
2 eggs, beaten
Glaze:1/2 cup ketchup or barbecue sauce
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. prepared mustard
1. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients, except for glaze. Mix well. Remove kneading blades from breadmaker baking pan. Press meat mixture into the baking pan, and set in breadmaker.
2. In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients and set aside.
3. Select bake cycle on the breadmaker (do not use preheat, knead, or rise cycles), and set breadmaker to cook for 1:10. Press start.
4. 30 minutes prior to end of baking time, open the lid and pour glaze mixture on top of meatloaf. Close lid and continue baking.
5.Once baking is completed, allow the meatloaf to cool slightly, drain juices, and remove from the baking pan. Slice and serve.

Recipe from: http://www.lafujimama.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Grinding Ezekiel flour

I am going to grind some of what I call Ezekiel flour for myself and my mom. We use a portion of it in our mix when we make bread. We feel this adds proteins and vitamins and other benefits to our bread. It must be good for us if God told Ezekiel to make bread from certain beans. I don't have every thing God mentioned so I use what I do have. I put things like pinto, black, red, kidney, barley, rice, corn, and anything else I find into the grinder.

I am so thankful my mom has loaned me her electric grinder to use. It sure beats cranking by hand. I told mom that I would keep her supplied with wheat flour and Ezekiel flour if I could keep the grinder at my house. She said that was fine so I happily keep her supplied.

Courtney and Kaitlyn are here for a few days while their parents and aunt travel to Illinois and back. Pray for their safety.

Apparently the pool has a swim time from 8-9 pm on Tues and Thurs for women to swim with out children. A lady called me just now and asked me to go. I need the exercise but I hate putting on a suit. They do not allow anything over the suit. No t-shirt no shorts.

Happy Birthday to my sisters

My sister Carol had a birthday the day before yesterday and my sister Roberta's birthday is today. Happy Birthday sisters. I am the middle child between these two.

Great new website

I have been anxiously waiting for this web site to open.

Tah dah, its open.

Its an excellent site with many videos and instructions about dehydrating food and how to use it in your cooking. Tammy is very knowledgeable on the subject and has done an excellent job presenting the information.

Stop by her site at http://www.dehydrate2store.com/ and see what I am talking about.

Home made water treatment system

A while back I ordered the filters and spigot to make my own water filter system. Well yesterday I finally got around to drilling the holes and putting the thing together. I got the buckets free at the grocery store bakery. The filter and spigot I bought from:http://shop.monolithic.com/products/just-water-ceramic-drip-filter



I used smaller buckets than these with lids that are easier to remove for filling and cleaning.

This is the spigot. I just drilled a hole in the side of the bottom bucket and installed this.

This is the filter. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the top bucket and through the top of the bottom bucket and installed this filter. It was very easy. Both the filter and spigot were just finger tightened.

This system was designed by some Baptist men for missions. If they are told what area or country the system will be used they can actually make the filters specific for that location. To filter out what ever things are more likely to be in that area.

Making vanilla extract

This morning some friends came over and I showed them how to make vanilla extract. I had ordered two pounds of vanilla beans for me and one pound for Joella. Some of the gals made vanilla sugar too. I guess that is something the German people really like.

Joella said that Marius always wanted vanilla sugar and she didn't even know what it was.

Then I showed the ladies how to make lye soap with recycled oil. I hope they enjoyed the time together.

About vanilla beans. I went to walmart and they had a jar with 3 or 4 vanilla beans in it for 8.97. I ordered mine from ebay for 9.99 lb and 5.00 shipping. I got about 160 beans for 15.00. I have enough to make lots of things

Old cartoon-new news?

Go here to view this cartoon that was made 50 years ago. It is scary how accurate it is.
http://thesurvivalistblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-were-warned-50-years-ago.html

If I could figure out how to put the video on my blog I would.

Are you prepared for a disaster?

It occurred to me today that if our government is intent that as Americans we should prepare for and be ready for a disaster, why aren't they doing more in the education and awareness area? It seems to me that if we as a people are suppose to have 3 days worth of food and water which by the way has changed to two weeks. The government should be more up front about how to do this. Many folks only have enough food on hand for a day or two.

I know in the winter, every time the forecast is for a big storm the stores are inundated with shoppers stocking supplies. Why aren't we doing this all year?

Does the government want the citizens to starve? Go crazy rioting? Pillage the shops? Should there be more education from the media about being prepared for an emergency? IF not then why?

Just wondering.

Hispanic church food sale results

I talked to one of the Hispanic church ladies and she said that they sold out and that people were coming to her house wanting more. They also asked who made the banana bread and she told them a gringo made it. I laughed. Maybe the gringo will make some thing for next Saturdays sale too.

Since she didn't make any tortillas for me to buy I mixed some up while she was there and asked her to show me how to work them and roll them out. Turns out I was not kneading them and she did quite a bit. She also spent more time rolling each one out. Its always good to learn things from the pros so you can do things better.

Here I am eating all this heavy mexican food and Mr. Olson is eating salad, grapes and watermelon. I think I'd better learn something from him and do the same. Maybe I wouldn't feel so heavy and stuffed in the evening.

Saturday

Today we took five loaves to the place where the Hispanic church was having their food sale to donate and bought 3 tacos and 3 bean burritos. Next week they are suppose to have some plain tortilla's for me. They misunderstood what I wanted. I think I got it across this time.

The burritos and tacos were very good btw.

I may try a green or red burrito next time depending on which one is the least spicy.



We also went to a garage sale at a church by Bryans corner where I found 3 nice hardback books and a few other things. The ladies were getting hot and tired and so my total was only 2.00. It gets cheaper the more tired the folks are. lol



I just now finished up making 2 batches of oatmeal, milk and honey soap. It is the favorite around here so I make more of it.



Last night I ordered some free business cards from Vista print, you pay postage so they are not really free, free, I use them when I wrap the soap.



My pork roast is done so I de-boned and de-fatted it and drained the juices off. Then I tore it up and poured picante sauce over it as well as two cans of fire roasted tomato chunks. I mixed this up and its on low in the crock pot.



I drained the water from the pinto beans and rinsed and refilled the pot with water and am cooking the beans to go with the pork chili. I am going to talk Christina into making re fried beans with them. If I have any left overs I will put them in plastic bags in the freezer. I like having some beans in the freezer for days when I don't plan ahead like I should.



I bought several cans of lye the other day so I can make soap for a while before I have to restock it. I am so glad I discovered this new way to make soap, it makes its so much cheaper and helps the environment as well. Cant beat that with a stick. Now if I could discover a new way to scent the soap for free I'd be walking in clover.



My green house is doing good despite my inattention to it. I do need to get out there and tie up the tomatoes. The peppers look good and so do the cucumbers. We have eaten lettuce from it that was volunteer. I always plant my lettuce in the same corner of the greenhouse and so I guess it just reseeded itself.



I guess this is just a rambling post. I am just sitting here thinking and my fingers are typing my thoughts.



Jeff is coming home the 1st or 2nd and I miss him. I think the weekends are hardest for him because he is alone. I am rarely alone so it doesn't get to me as much.

Well I'll post again later. I hope whoever reads this has a wonderful day. God bless you.

I thought I had lost this post. Whew.

Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all..

"One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

"The other is Good - It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

"The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?

"The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

Mexican food sale

Tomorrow, Saturday the Hispanic Baptist church is having a Mexican food sale at the old gas station in Hardesty. They will be having a food sale every Saturday all summer as well as car washes and other fund raising things. They decided they want to do missions and so they are earning money so they can do this. I think this is admirable and made some banana bread to donate for them to sell. I plan on buying some tortillas.

I have a pork roast cooking now and will be making pork chili. I think I will go put some beans on to soak to go along with the pork chili.

One of the ladies involved told me they are making burritos and other good things.

Busy day

Today has been very busy. The girls went out to put the tire back on the riding lawn mower only to discover that two or three more washers were needed. Of course we don't have any that size, its a 3/4 hole in the middle. So it will have to wait until we go town.

I took the veggies out of the dehydrator and refilled it. It seems that 4 lbs. of veggies shrinks down to 1 lb. That's pretty significant. I cut some banana's up and sprayed with lemon juice and more corn, peas and green beans. I also sliced some zucchini and am drying that as well.

I put a pork butt roast in to cook and will make pork chili with that tomorrow.

I also made 6 small loaves of banana bread. Yesterday I happened to be at United when the guy was working the bananas and I asked him to mark some down for me that he had taken off the shelf, so he did.

Christina was here as well and she was making chili relinos ( I cant figure out how to spell this,its the cheese stuffed pablamo peppers that are dipped in beaten egg and fried), we had them for lunch with Spanish rice, which I made and she had made some homemade re fried beans. Wow, they were good.

The kitchen was really a busy place this morning. It was fun though.

After lunch Christina, Sam, Joy and Mollie went to Guymon to get some things so they are going to pick up the washers I need for the lawn mower and also bring me a Sonic drink. Yummy. Life is good. I picked Kaitlyn and Courtney up at school after their field trip for the summer palooza.

Bill is driving a tractor for David. They are bailing the straw from the wheat.

I had ordered two lbs. of vanilla beans for me and one lb. for Joella last week and they already came in. I called Joella to tell her they are in so Monday we are going to work with the vanilla beans. I am happy to be busy.

Life is good.

Mussings

This has always been my favorite picture of Jesus. I guess its because its one that I saw a lot of while I was growing up.

I was searching the net for images of Jesus and I found some lovely ones but I also found some very disturbing ones. I worry for these people. Do they think its ok to mock the Lord?

I serve a risen Savior

The cross is empty, the grave is empty. Oh death where is thy sting? Where is thy victory?