Thursday, November 12, 2009

Down Home MEAT LOAF Rolled In Bacon


Okay well here we go two of the best comfort foods known to man combined in one of the best meatloaf recipes you will find. Okay first off this isn’t your normal recipe for a meatloaf as there is no tomato sauce/ketchup on top, instead we are using bacon! Why don’t we use a topping sauce you may ask?

Well….simply put the bacon wont let the red sauce stick, it will just slide off into a greasy red mess on the sides of your loaf.

Anyhow if you try this I guarantee you will like it, the bacon just does something so spectacular to the meatloaf that it will literally make your toes curl and have you moaning in excitement. I mean for real you will scream my name, Okay, okay maybe not my name but you may give me a “Billy damn, that’s good!”

So, give it a try and let me know what you think.

Here we go with how to prepare it. So hit print screen now and then cook it up!

Down Home Meat Loaf Rolled In Bacon

The Store Bought Stuff: (Ingredients)

-2 lbs ground beef
-2 eggs
-1 1/2 cups bread crumbs
-1/2 cup onion - diced
-1/2 cup bell pepper - diced
-1/2 cup celery - diced
-1 tbsp Basil
-1 tbsp Thyme
-1 tbsp Oregano
-4 tbsp Worchestire sauce
-1 tsp salt
-1 tsp pepper
-1lb sliced bacon (Your choice, I use Bryan)

Throwing It All Together: (preparation)

Dice the onion, bell pepper, and celery. Saute quickly and set aside to cool.

Ground beef add the eggs, Worchestire sauce, herbs, salt, pepper and combine loosely.

When the vegetables are cooled add to the ground beef mixture and incorporate.

Add the bread crumbs to adjust the consistency of the mix.

Shape meat mixture onto the edge of the arranged bacon and use parchment paper or wax paper to roll the bacon around the meat mixture, you know just roll it up inside the bacon.

Bake on a rack at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until the internal temperature is 180 degrees or cooked, you will know when it is..

Slice and serve with some mashed potato's, corn, green beans and some corn bread with a big ol' glass of down home sweet tea, that's some good eatin' right there!

Enjoy y’all!

Monday, November 9, 2009

Chocolate Pound Cake (Enuff Said!)


Hey everybody, how you doing?

Well today as I sit and type this us folks living here in lower Alabama are in the middle of a Tropical Storm by the name of Ida. It’s going to be a rainy and dreary day so I decided that I really needed to type up a recipe that would make “ANYBODY’S” day be better and guess what?

I found something "GOOOODD" just for you!

It’s my Granny’s Chocolate Pound Cake recipe. You know Pound Cakes are just naturally good, but when you throw in some chocolate, it makes it just that much more better. Then add a handful of fresh strawberries on top and my goodness this will definitely cure what’s bothering you, including Tropical Storms, LOL!

Try it out and let me know what you think, till next time keep on cooking! I know corny, but that’s just how I roll! LOL!!!


Granny's Chocolate Pound Cake

Store Bought Stuff: (Ingredients)

3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
5 eggs
4 teaspoons cocoa
½ pound real butter
½ cup real shortening
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk
1 tablespoon vanilla

Pound Cake Icing:

2/3 stick butter, creamed
2/3 box sifted confectioner’s sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons hot brewed coffee (Yes, Real Hot Coffee!)

Slinging It Together: (Preparation)

Cream butter, shortening and sugar together thoroughly.

Add eggs.

Add shifted dry ingredients alternately with milk.

Add vanilla.

Bake in well greased and floured bundt cake pan in 325 degree oven for one hour and twenty minutes.

For icing, mix well butter, confectioner’s sugar added gradually, cocoa, vanilla and hot coffee.

Ice the cake while warm and top with fresh strawberries.

And enjoy yourself!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Perroquet51's Chicken Almondoine Recipe As Seen On Youtube.Com

Well hello everyone how are we today? I hope everyone is well and eating away on your Halloween haul of goodies that you got yesterday. I wanted to post a recipe today and after browsing YouTube I found that one of my friends had posted a recipe that I just had to forward to you all for your enjoyment.

Marc perroquet51” as he is known on Youtube is one of the most well liked and well known YouTube personalities that I happen to be acquainted with. Marc is just one classy guy, and very intelligent and witty. And just as soon as I saw this recipe I knew it had to be good because I don’t see Marc doing or cooking anything that would not meet up to his standards of excellence. So without hesitation I asked him if I could post it and he said yes!

So here it is, complete with written recipe instructions and a video of him cooking the dish himself for your enjoyment.

Also just so you know beginning this week we are going into HOLIDAY MODE here on www.billyctv.com and my YouTube channel as well. It’s getting close to the holidays and time for me to start posting those holiday favorite recipes for you to possibly try. So look for that in the near future.

Have a great day and here is Marc’s Chicken Almondine recipe.

Recipe:

Only make as much as you intend to use immediately, because it doesn't reheat well.
I made way more sauce than I needed for 3 pieces of chicken but the proportions of spices was great.

Chicken Almondine:

Several boneless, skinless pieces of chicken.

Spices:

1 1/2 tsp celery salt
2 tsp paprika
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp dried oregano, crushed
1 tsp freshly ground pepper

Other ingredients:

1/2 - 3/4 cups slivered almonds
1 1/2 cups light cream
1/2 - 1 cup sour cream
3 TBSP fine dry bread crumbs (plain) blended with 3-6 TBSP melted butter (depending on how many chicken pieces you use)

Directions:

Put about 1 cup of flour in a paper or plastic bag. Add chicken pieces, one or two at a time, and shake until coated. Shake off excess flour.

Blend all of the spices with the butter and coat each piece of chicken on all sides.

Arrange chicken in a baking dish large enough to allow space between the pieces.

Sprinkle each piece of chicken with almonds.

Pour light cream around the chicken.

Bake, covered, for 45 minutes at 350

Uncover and spoon about 1/2 cup of the sauce into a bowl containing the sour cream and mix well.

Pour the mixture over the chicken and sprinkle the pieces with bread crumbs.

Continue baking, Uncovered just until chicken is tender (about 15-20 minutes).