Simple Meat Loaf

2 pds ground beef

1 can tomato paste

1 onion chopped

1-1 1/2 cups oatmeal

2 eggs

salt and pepper



My husband is a picky eater, and he loves this!





Mix the ground beef, egg, onion, oatmeal, tomato paste, salt and pepper together in a big bowl. If you do not have enough Oatmeal in it to dry it up , add a little more, as thats the key to a perfect meatloaf, have enough bread in it to draw up the oil out of it, and allow it to stick together.



Once the meatloaf is nearly done, pull out and put your ketchup on top and put back in for another 20-30 minutes. I bake this in a 300 degree oven for a couple hours, or until the meat is cooked. I decided its better to be cooking for a couple hours, and have a delicious meal, than to cook for 20 minutes, and throw it out, so I cook things slow to get a better flavor.

Beef Manhatten's

You will need one good size roast. Doesnt matter what cut it is, I use any I got in the freezer, cause if you cook it right, its going to be nice and tender anyway.

Place the roast in a crock pot, along with some Worchestershire sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Cover with water, and for an even better tasting gravy, go ahead and throw in a couple beef boillion cubes to get that really beefy taste.

Just cover it and let it cook. No big secret here, just patience with it. Let it cook until it falls completly apart when you touch it with a fork. Take the meat out of the juice, and shred the meat up with a fork. and set aside.

Now pour the juice into a pot and bring it to a boil. Once its boiling good, mix you up some cornstarch and water, about 3 tablespoons corn starch to 1/4 cup water, and pour it over into the juice, along with a dash of Kitchen Bouquet. This flavors your juice, and makes your gravy nice and brown. Salt and pepper to taste.

Now, take two pieces of white bread and lay on a plate. Spoon some of the roast on the bread, then a little gravy, and then put the other piece of bread on top and smother with the gravy.

I serve this with Mashed Potatoes and green beans usually. One of my and my families favorite meals!!

Slow Cooked Pinto Beans

I have been informed that not everyone cooks their own beans. I have always made my own pot of pinto beans with my fresh made corn bread and fried potatoes, so I couldnt believe this but I guess its true. So here is how to do it.

Wash you a pd bag of beans. Make sure you get all the rocks out (yes fresh beans that dont come canned do have rocks in them from time to time.)

Put your beans over in a good crock pot... you need one that gets hot enough to boil these, you dont want the soup to taste yucky.

Put about 2 tablespoons shortening in the beans along with water to fill it up to the top. Salt and pepper, and be giving with the seasoning, if you dont the beans are not going to taste good.

Cover and let cook for a few hours, make sure you keep them filled with water, or they will burn.

Once they start boiling good, and you see the soup has turned brown, and the beans have swelled all the way up, uncover them, and let them cook like that. That makes your soup get nice and thick, and gives the beans a much better flavor. Be attentive to them, keep them stired up good, so they get thick.
Serve with corn bread ( I have a recipe for this on here) and fried potatoes and maybe even some kraut and weiners. Yummy good, straight from the south supper. Hope you enjoy these!!

Fresh (frozen) okra

Ever put up fresh okra out of the garden? If so then you know how yucky it normally tastes when you try to cook it. Well I got a secret that a sister of one of the little down syndrome guys I use to take care of told me about. Its awesome.

Okay, so first off, freeze the okra whole. Just wash it and throw it in the bag, dont cut anything off.

Now when you go to cook it, cut it up frozen, and crack you an egg over it along with a tad of milk. Not much, just what you would use to coat it with anyway. Allow it to thaw in the bowl, with the egg and milk mixture in it. Mix you up some flour/cornmeal/salt and pepper mix, and set aside. Get your deep fryer going, and have that oil hot, about 400-450 degrees hot.

Now, take the cut okra out by a handful at a time, bread in your flour mixture, and then drop in the fryer. The breading sticks.. the okra gets soft just like it is straight out of the garden. My husband loves this stuff. Just wanted to share it with you.

Broccoli Pasta Salad

Do any of you guys remember Mrs. Winners?? Well I do, I use to work there in high school, and I just loved their pasta salad. I also use to make the stuff and still remember the recipe. So here ya go.


1 bag of the colorful twisted noodles ( I do not remember the name of these, but you will see what I am meaning when you get in the store, lol)

1 head broccoli

2-3 stalks celery

1 carrot shredded

1 bottle ranch dressing


Okay, so cook your noodles, and then let them cool. While they are cooling, cut up your broccoli and celery. All you use of the broccoli is the heads, throw the stalk away. Put this stuff in a bowl along with the shredded carrot. Pour your noodles in the bowl, and then pour your ranch dressing over it, and mix it up. Do not use expensive salad dressing on this, you can not tell the difference in the salad, and it take alot, so use whats on sale ( and remember buy them with coupons!!)

Watergate Salad

My dear friend Shanna Joe's granny use to make this for us all the time when she was living. She was a wonderful cook, and I miss her very much.

you will need

walnuts
1 can pinapple chunks
4 boxes pistashio pudding
1 bag colored baby marshmellows
1 tub cool whip
marishino cherries ( not sure if thats spelled right, but you get the point)

Make the pudding as directed, and then mix the cool whip in with it. Next put all the other stuff in and chill. Thats it. all there is to it. Use as many walnuts and cherries as you like. I like alot in mine, so I use alot, but thats totally up to you. This recipe is near and dear to my heart... it was a comfort food she made us to show us she loved us.. Hope you enjoy

Fruit Cobblers

This is my mothers recipe for easy fruit cobblers.


1 cup flour
1cup sugar
1 cup milk
fruit of choice


put your fruit in the bottom of a round pyrex dish, and then mix the other ingredients up, and pour them over the top of the fruit. Thats all there is to it. I sprinkle a little sugar on top of mine when it starts to form a bread to make it more shinny, but not needed for taste. Serve with a big scoop of vanilla icecream.. Totally easy, and yummy

Better than Sex cake

1 devils food cake mix
1 tub cool whip
1 container chocolate fudge ice cream topping
1 container caramel ice cream topping
3 butterfinger candy bars, crushed
1 can eagles brand sweetened condensed milk

Okay, so bake the cake as directed, then take a knife and slit holes in it. pull those holes open a little and pour the sweetened condensed milk, chocolate and caramel down in them, and then cover cake with cool whip, and then sprinkle the candy bar pieces over it. Yummy

Lloyd Family Banana pudding

Why is this the "Lloyd" family recipe you ask? Well, because thats my maiden name, and my Aunt Linda has made this for years, and it rocks thats why!

1 block cream cheese
1 tub cool whip
4 boxes instant vanilla pudding
1 box cookies
banana's


make pudding as normal. Blend cream cheese and cool whip together until there are no clumps left. Then mix the two together, and put together just like you would put a regular banana pudding together.. The cream cheese and cool whip make it sooo much better, and of course more fattening, but hey.. if you know my Lloyd clan, you can see by looking at us, we all can cook.. lol

Stampers Hashbrown skillet meal

Okay, so one day I was short on pantry supplies, and short on money, so I decided to become creative with what I had, and this ended up being a really good meal.

2-3 med size potatoes
1 pds ground beef
1 pck onion soup mix
powdered cheese from a mac and cheese dinner
1 can mushrooms
4 slices cheese


okay so first brown your hamburger meat, then mix in the onion soup mix with just a little water, then shred the potatoes up, and put them in the skillet with the meat, and mix all that together. and let the potatoes brown good. Once the potatoes are done and brown, mix that cheese up with a little milk and pour over the top of the casserole and then place the 4 slices of cheese on and let all that melt in. A good hearty meal, (maybe not healthy, but is tasty) and feed alot for just a little.

Bubby Brine's Queso Dip

This is a super easy recipe, and you can find it on the back of the Velvetta box but we make it alot, and alter the recipe just a tad.

1 block velvetta cheese
1 can rotel (we use hot, if you have a sensitive tongue, use mild)
1 roll sausage
1 pd hamburger

Cook meat together on stove, then put the meat, rotel, and cheese in a crock pot and allow to melt together. Thats all there is to it, and everytime I make this its gone almost immediatly. My brother created this little recipe, and the whole family loves it!

Homemade Totilla chips

You need a deep fryer for this recipe.

Take a pack of corn tortillas and cut in quarters.
Heat oil in deep fryer to about 400 degrees
make sure oil is hot, then drop totillas in oil. allow to fry until they get a golden brown (if you do not fry long enough they will taste stail)
take out of oil, put in plate with paper towel to catch excess oil, and lightly salt. Perfect as an addition to my open face Enchilada recipe on here!

Sausage cream cheese rolls

I was setting here today thinking about all the cream cheese I have frozen in my freezer that I got on sale back around thanksgiving that I need to use, and I remembered these totally yummy cream cheese and sausage rolls I make that are just to tasty to be true.

Okay so you need

1 block cream cheese
1 roll sausage (I always use the extra sage kind, cause my bunch loves the sage)
2 rolls crescent rolls

Fry the sausage up, then cut the cream cheese up and put in the pan with the sausage, and mix around till it melts.

Now take the crescent rolls and lay them in the pan flat. Put one good spoon full (i use a heaping teaspoon) in each one, then flop the ends up around it. Its probably not gonna cover all the meat, but thats okay.

Place in oven and allow to bake for 10-12 minutes or until the crescent rolls are done. Bake on temp recommended on back of crescent rolls.

Easy appetizer, and totally awesome taste.