Our Favorite Classic Meatloaf Recipe [+Video]

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Our Favorite Classic Meatloaf Recipe [+Video]

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A good classic meatloaf recipe should never be over-mixed, should always include a glaze, and the secret? Well, that’s in a combination of ground meat you don’t want to miss!

It seems like meatloaf is a divisive dish. You either love it or you hate it. I think it all depends on if you’ve had an amazingly awesome meatloaf like this one, or if you’ve only had mediocre meatloaf. We are making everyone into meatloaf lovers with this recipe!

Does it even matter who is coming to dinner if Mom’s meatloaf is on the menu? The flavor reminds me of home and it tastes just like mom made it! This is our favorite homemade meatloaf recipe plus every frequently asked question to help it turn out perfect every single time!

What Ingredients Do You Need for Classic Meatloaf?

Let’s start by talking about the ingredients you will need. I mentioned the combination of meat that makes the most outrageously delicious meatloaf, so here it is:

  • Meat combination:
    • Beef Chuck (ground)
    • Pork (ground)
    • Veal (ground)

It is seriously the best! But if you want to keep it simple, you can use all lean ground beef chuck and it will be still be delicious.

These are the other ingredients you will need:

  • Vegetable Oil
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Carrot
  • Thyme
  • Eggs
  • Sea Salt
  • Black Pepper
  • Dijon Mustard
  • Ketchup
  • Worcestershire Sauce
  • Milk
  • Ritz Crackers (or breadcrumbs)
  • Fresh Parsley

Then we absolutely cannot forget about the glaze! It is my favorite part!! It is the perfect way to top this meatloaf:

  • Ketchup
  • Chili Sauce
  • Apple Cider Vinegar
  • Worcestershire Sauce
  • Brown Sugar
  • Garlic
  • Salt

The measurements for all the ingredients can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make the Best Meatloaf:

Now that we know all the ingredients, let’s walk through each step of how to make this traditional meatloaf recipe. We are going to include a photo of each step as well. Here we go!

  1. Prep: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Place a skillet on your stove top and heat the oil over medium high heat.
  2. Sauté: Add the onion, carrots, and garlic to the skillet and cook until it soft. It should take about 5 minutes then set them aside to cool.
  3. Glaze: While the veggies are cooking, I like to whisk together all the ingredients for the glaze so that it’s ready when I need it.
  4. Whisk: Add the eggs, thyme, salt, pepper, and milk to a small bowl and whisk to combine.
  5. Add: Then add in the mustard, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce and whisk everything together.

Quick and Easy Chicken Parmesan Recipe

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Quick and Easy Chicken Parmesan Recipe

Quick and Easy Chicken Parmesan Recipe

Try this simple and delicious chicken parmesan recipe that will have dinner on the table in no time. With a few shortcuts, you can enjoy the classic Italian dish without spending hours in the kitchen.

One of our go to dishes is this quick and easy chicken parmesan recipe. We’ve found that using crushed croutons makes for the ultimate chicken parmesan recipe!

Secret to the Best Chicken Parm

We’ve tried breadcrumbs, seasoned bread crumbs, panko and seasoned panko and we always come back to our same secret for making the best chicken parmesan recipe. I am pretty sure you’re going to love our way and be hooked forever. Crisp, golden brown chicken perfectly smothered in a light and flavorful marinara and mozzarella cheese that’s been cooked until gooey and delicious, now that’s dinner I want!

I really like to make my own marinara sauce and I’ll include a recipe for marinara here, but if there isn’t time, just go ahead and used jarred. Does it really matter? Nah, but I do think homemade sauce is better.

What is Chicken Parmesan?

Is chicken parmesan Italian? Is chicken parmesan and chicken parmigiana the same thing?

Chicken parmesan is breaded chicken that is then covered in a tomato sauce and topped with mozzarella, parmesan or sometimes even provolone cheese. It’s often eaten over pasta like spaghetti but can be eaten alone or as an entree. Chicken parmesan subs are another favorite and we happen to have a really, really good recipe for it if this quick and easy shortcut chicken parmesan recipe isn’t enough for you.

Chicken Parmesan and chicken parmigiana are the exact same thing.

Ingredients for Easy Chicken Parmesan

The beauty of this recipe is that everything can be made from scratch or everything can be store bought so you can decide how quick and easy you want it be! Here is what you will need:

Chicken Parmesan

  • Chicken Breasts: Grab boneless and skinless and then butterfly them and pound them flat.
  • Focaccia or Garden Herb Croutons: We grab a bag at Costco and crush them in a ziploc bag.
  • Butter and Olive Oil: Used to brown the chicken to golden perfection.
  • Marinara Sauce: You can make the recipe down below or grab your favorite store-bought brand. I’m pretty obsessed with Rao’s lately!
  • Mozzarella Cheese: We prefer Precious brand or fresh mozzarella, but any mozz will work great!
  • Angel Hair Pasta: Spaghetti would also work great.

Marinara

  • Olive Oil: used to sauté the veggies
  • Vegetables: Small Onion, Carrots, Garlic Cloves, Crushed Tomatoes, Tomato Sauce
  • Seasonings: Salt, Pepper, Bay Leaves

The measurements for all the ingredients can be found in the recipe card at the end of

Classic Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe [+Video]

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Classic Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe [+Video]

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Looking for the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe? Look no further! These classic peanut butter cookies are easy to make and sure to be a hit with the whole family. They are soft and chewy and everything you want in a peanut butter cookie!

I originally wrote this post for classic peanut butter cookies and then had the feeling that I should dedicate this post to my parents, and I try to always follow those little feelings. Thank you for taking the time to always encourage, patiently teach and most of all love me through anything and everything. You gave me the wings to fly anywhere and become anything.

Music and food. Two things that store up memories like nothing else. I can love a book but never remember what was going on when I was reading it. A certain song though, well suddenly I’m right back in college teaching a Pilates class, or driving to a marching band practice. Yup. Totally did that. haha, but seriously, music and food bring back so many memories and I bet a few of you have one attached to classic peanut butter cookies.

Making Memories in the Kitchen

This may seem ridiculous to some of you, but I so badly wanted to feel like I could do things on my own as a kid. With siblings much older than me I watched them doing all sorts of fun and cool things and I just wanted to be big like them. I know, I should have been more content with being little because looking back I am bummed I didn’t take more advantage of being carefree. Either way, I distinctly remember my mom making peanut butter cookies one day and she let me sit up on a stool and help her make the criss-cross pattern with a fork on top of the cookie dough.

How silly, a fork to press a pattern into a cookie and warm memories attached to just that. I can see the same desire in our oldest and I struggle as a mom to let her, even encourage her to be little and at the same time push her to be more and more responsible each year. It’s in these little moments that I feel balanced, a mom having fun and being little alongside her daughter and still teaching her as a mother should.

I first teach her that it’s all about the softened butter. Not melted, and not cold, perfectly soft where you see your fingerprint and indentation in the butter. Then whip it, forcing air into the sugar and butter for a fluffier cookie. I also tell her that there’s nothing more important in baking than first following the recipe, and second measuring correctly. Wet ingredients in a glass measuring cup, dry in regular cups. Flour MUST be measured just like in our tutorial.

And in the end, the fork comes out for the indentations just like Mom taught me. She’s a good mom like that.

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

There’s just one unexpected ingredient in these cookies, but I swear to you it will make all the difference! The rest of the ingredients will be in your pantry already. Here is what you’ll need:

  • Butter: I prefer to use unsalted butter. Make sure it

Easy Ground Beef Stroganoff

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Easy Ground Beef Stroganoff

A dinner plate filled with ground beef stroganoff. It is noodles and ground beef in a rich sauce with a spoonful of sour cream on top.

Our easy Ground Beef Stroganoff features flavorful ground beef, rich mushrooms, a silky cream sauce and a dollop of sour cream! It’s a family favorite recipe!

Ground Beef Stroganoff is one our go-to family meals for when you just don’t want to think. Is anyone else feeling like they’ve made 5 billion meals in 2020? Every day everyone wanted to eat, and not just eat, but 3 meals a day!

AND!! I’m a food blogger!! This is my job! But my goodness, someone feed these people!

Fine, I’ll do it. But I’m making Homemade Beef Stroganoff again because it’s ready in LESS THAN 25 MINUTES!

Ground Beef Stroganoff Ingredients

Despite how luxurious the beef stroganoff sauce tastes, it’s actually made with everyday ingredients you have in your pantry! Here’s what you’ll need to make this ground beef dinner recipe:

  • Egg Noodles: We like the texture and flavor of the egg noodles with the sauce but any pasta will work fine.
  • Ground Beef: We prefer 80/20 or 85/15 for maximum flavor.
  • Onions: a yellow onion works great and dice it small
  • Seasonings: Garlic Powder, Paprika, Salt, Black Pepper, Dried Parsley Flakes, Onion Powder
  • Thyme: We prefer fresh thyme but if you need to use dried, use 1/2 teaspoon.
  • Butter: helps sauté the mushrooms and then mixes with the flour to create a roux for the sauce
  • Cremini Mushrooms: sliced thin
  • Flour: just regular all purpose flour is all you need
  • Beef Broth: creates the base for the sauce, use low sodium beef broth if you want to reduce the salt
  • Worcestershire Sauce: adds rich umami flavor
  • Sour Cream: adds creaminess
  • Fresh Parsley: used for garnish

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Ground Beef Stroganoff From Scratch

You are going to love me when you see how easy this beef stroganoff recipe is! It’s ready in as much time as it takes to boil noodles!

  1. Start your egg noodles cooking in salted water.
  2. Sauté the onions in a large skillet or shallow dutch oven over medium high heat on the stove top and then add the seasonings. Cook until browned and then drain the grease and remove everything to a bowl.
  3. Add the butter to the pan and then add mushrooms to caramelize. Then add the flour and stir for a minute or so to cook the flour taste out.
  4. Pour in the beef broth and Worcestershire and whisk everything together. Simmer a few minutes to thicken. Add in the sour cream and stir everything together.
    • PRO TIP: You’ve just made homemade cream of mushroom soup and it’s so much better made from scratch!
  5. Serve over egg noodles in a large pan and top with fresh parsley.

All of the instructions in complete detail

Most Delicious Sausage Cheesy Breakfast Soufflé [+Video]

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Most Delicious Sausage Cheesy Breakfast Soufflé [+Video]

a photo of a piece of cheesy sausage breakfast souffle sitting on a small plate

Cheese soufflé made from 4 different cheeses, sausage and eggs makes the best breakfast casserole of all time! I love it so much and keep going back for more!

Well, I don’t even know what I need to say about this one other than, it’s pure cheese, folks, and I’m not talking about my jokes. Ohhhhh, whomp whomp. Haha, I couldn’t help it.

This is a very old recipe from my family that for once isn’t my mom’s. In fact, I’m not even sure if she makes it at all. But we eat it when we visit my aunt and when I say eat it, I mean, DEVOUR IT.

I know, it looks unassuming and no, I don’t have any idea how I’ll convince you to try it, but you must. You really, really must, because it is the most melt in your mouth breakfast casserole you’ll ever consume. And best of all, you can easily change it to your own liking. Pepper jack cheese? Great idea. Bacon or ham? Bring it on.

This is going in your recipe box, and you’ll be making it until the cows come home. Or so my ancestors would have said.

What Ingredients are Needed for a Cheesy Egg Soufflé?

You’ll be hitting your cheese and dairy sections at the grocery store for this one! For the cheeses, I like to buy them in bricks and grate it on my own. They melt together so much better than the pre-shredded cheese. And you know I always go with Tillamook! Here is your grocery list:

  • Sausage
  • Monterey Jack Cheese
  • Cheddar Cheese (sharp)
  • Mozzarella Cheese
  • Milk
  • All Purpose Flour
  • Cottage Cheese (full fat, low fat or fat free all work great)
  • Eggs
  • Butter
  • Green Chiles

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card below.

How to Make a Cheese Soufflé

The steps for making a breakfast cheese soufflé recipe are few and simple. It only takes about 10 minutes to prep and then 50 minutes to bake. Here are the basic steps:

  • Spread half of the melted butter in your baking dish and be sure to brush the sides with the butter as well.
  • Combine all the ingredients (including the remaining butter) in a large bowl and stir it well.
  • Pour the egg mixture into the prepared baking dish.
  • Bake. It should be golden brown and a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.

The instructions can also be found in the recipe card down below.

 Watch How This Cheesy Egg Souffle Recipe is Made…

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