Menu: Meatloaf, Funeral Potatoes, Lime Jell-O
Outcome: Everyone really loved the meatloaf --the recipe I used called for bell peppers, but I think that next time I would choose mushrooms instead. Precooking the onions and peppers would make for a softer texture, so I am adding that step in the recipe below. The "Funeral Potatoes", also called Hash Brown Casserole, was a hit! We were scraping the dish to get the last of it out. And who doesn't like Jell-O for a tasty treat?
Next up: Matthew chose Colorado! That state meal (to be served the weekend of 6-8 June) will be the last one until August, when we're all back together again. With family road trips, the kids' summer visitation, summer camps, and family visits, we all won't be back together for all 6 of us to have one of our states' homemade meals until school starts again.
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| Meatloaf and Funeral Potatoes |
Meatloaf
Prep time: 10
min. Cook time: 1 hour
Ingredients - 2 lbs. ground beef or turkey
- 1 tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. pepper
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 chopped bell pepper
- 2 tsp. olive oil
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 2 Tbsp. minced garlic
- 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
Topping:
- 2/3 cup ketchup
- 4 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. yellow mustard
1. Cook the onions and peppers in the olive oil until softened, then mix remaining ingredients together except for the ground beef or turkey.
2. Add the meat and mix well (with hands or wooden spoon) but don’t over mix, and place on a cookie sheet or broiler pan lined with foil, which makes for easy clean up. Shape into a loaf.
3. Mix ingredients for topping and spread on loaf. Bake for 1 hour at 375F.
Makes 6 servings.
Funeral Potatoes
Funeral Potatoes are often served at after-funeral dinners in Utah but in most of the country, this is simply called Hash Brown Casserole.Prep time: 20 min. Cook time: 1 hr. 10 min.
Ingredients
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- One 30-oz. bag frozen (shredded or cubed) hash brown potatoes, lightly thawed
- One 10.5-oz. can condensed cream of chicken soup (Use my Cream of Chicken Soup recipe)
- 1 cup sour cream
- ¼ cup grated Parmesan
- 1 ½ tsp. kosher salt
- ½ tsp. ground black pepper
- 2 cups shredded sharp yellow Cheddar or Monterey Jack Cheese
- 1 ½ cups lightly crushed corn flake cereal or bread crumbs
Directions
1.
Preheat the oven
to 350 º F.
2. Heat 2 Tbsp.
butter over medium heat in a skillet. Add the diced onion and cook, stirring,
until soft and translucent, about 6 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook until
fragrant and softened, an additional 2 minutes.
3.
In a bowl, toss
together the cooked onions and garlic, hash brown potatoes, condensed soup,
sour cream, Parmesan, salt, pepper and 1 ½ cups Cheddar. Spread the mixture in
a 9 x13" casserole dish. Melt the remaining 2 Tbsp. butter. Top the
casserole with the remaining ½ cup cheese, corn flake cereal and melted butter.
4.
Bake in the oven
until it bubbles around the sides, about 40 minutes to 1 hour.
Makes 10 Servings.
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| Funeral Potatoes |
Dessert was lime Jell-O with some whipped cream on top. Here's an interesting tidbit about why Jell-O is so popular in Utah:
"Mormons for decades have consumed Jell-O as
fervently as they avoid coffee. In adopting and making Jell-O “their” food,
Mormons are making a statement about their identity, accepting all of the
food’s positive connotations of family-friendliness, child-centeredness, and
domesticity.
Outsiders, in contrast, often look in and see Jell-O
as a mark of a lack of taste that renders this group strange, immature, and
ultimately mockable."
However it's seen, however mockable it may be, having Jell-O for dessert was a flashback to childhood for my husband and I --not to mention, a special treat for the kiddos.
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| Fun in a bowl! |
Source : Mormonisms Jell-O Mold
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