Saturday, November 19, 2011

Momma's Awesome Meatloaf!!!

Enjoy it in all it's greatness and splendor!


Okay so here is the recipe!

Ingredients:

1 lbs burger
1 1/2 package crackers
1 large or jumbo egg
1 can cream of chicken soup.


  1. Preheat over to 425
  2. In a mixing bowl with clean hands crush crackers over the burger and start the mash and fold together, adding more crackers as you go.
  3. Crack the egg into the bowl and fold that in as well, it will all start to come together better once the egg is in.
  4. Once it's all mixed togethere evenly, put into pan (any pan will do as long as it's not too big. A bread pan is the best.) and press out to all sides, making sure it's level.
  5. Spread cream of chicken over the top, use the entire can.
  6. Place pan into over and let cook roughly half an hour. Check periodically, to see if its cooked through, sometimes it can be done sooner than expected :)
  7. Once the soup has a skin on his, and possibly even lightly browned, and the meat is no longer pink inside, it's all done!
Super fast and SUPER simple cooking right there for you all! Enjoy it! I know I do. I don't like any other kind of Meatloaf.

BONUS!!: THe best part about this is the it's NOT dry in any way! It's super moist without being ugh, it really doesn't fit any of the preconceived notions of meatloaf!

ENJOY!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Special V-Log #2 Spaghetti with Garlic Toast

Hey all, our second V-log is ready to go! Tonight I made Spaghetti with Garlic Toast! Enjoy the video. If you want the full written recipe check it out here... Spaghetti with Garlic Toast :)

Without further ado, here's the V-log!


As you can see we now have a twitter account. I will connect it up with the blog tomorrow, I'm so sleepy tonight. As it is I really really hope you all enjoy this! Its so good and really easy, I want everyone to have a go at it! Have a great evening everyone, I love you all!

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Simple Cooking V-Log One! Baked Ziti and Ceasar Salad!!

Alright everyone, this is it! This is what Jay and I have wanted for Simple Cooking all along. Our ultimate goal has always been to turn Simple Cooking from a a text blog into a V-log. I know it's not the best quality, but this is our very first one and we're SO excited about it! I hope you all enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it, and eating the final results...Jay had some for breakfast this morning as well hahaha!

Also along with posting the V-log here, we ask that you all check out our brand new Simple Cooking Channel on You Tube. So here it is, what everyone's been waiting for! The Simple Cooking V-Log!


I hope you all enjoyed it! Here are the written instructions as promised!

Three Cheese Baked Ziti

Ingredients:
  • 1 box ziti noodles
  • 2 jars of tomato and basil spaghetti sauce
  • shredded mozzarella cheese
  • shredded/ground Parmesan cheese
  • sliced provolone cheese
  • sour cream

Alright so before we really dig in, you want to set a pot of water to boil, make sure it is big enough to cook the entire box of noodles. After that, things move super fast and you really have only about 10 minuets of wait time.Preheat over to 350 degrees Add box of noodles to the boiling pot of water, and cook for about 7-10 minuets until the noodles are al dente (see glossary term at the end of the recipe) Once the noodles are cooked, pour them into a strainer and rinse with cold water until they're luke warm.

Next, get out a baking pan, one you might use for other kinds of casserole, or cakes, etc. and cover the bottom with the cooled noodles.

Add on a layer of sauce, covering the noodles. Place the provolone cheese around the pan on top of the noodles and sauce. Next add on a nice thick layer of sour cream. (Helpful Hint: I like to spread the sour cream on each slice of provolone before putting it into the pan. I learned the hard way what it's like to spread sour cream onto something that is slippery underneath! )
Add another layer of noodles, and another layer of sauce.

The next layer is a nice, thick spread of mozzarella cheese, don't be afraid to cover it all!
Layer on the last of the noodles, and the rest of the sauce once more time. Finally cover the top with the Parmesan, as much or as little as you like, it doesn't matter a whole lot, do it to taste!
When you're all done, put it in the over for 10 minuets, just util it starts to boil at the top a little and the cheese melts. Remove from the oven and serve it up!


Cesar Salad

Ingredients:

  • Lettuce
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Croutons
  • Cesar dressing
Break lettuce up wash it up if you choose, fold in Parmesan cheese and croutons, then mix in just enough dressing to coat everything without drowning it all.

There ya go, that's all you need! I hope you all try it and really enjoy it! :)