Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Sweet, amazing, tasteful meatloaf!


Mmmm... Meatloaf... with a side of asparagus of course.

After you have created your amazing hamburger mess with all your goodness inside... roll out a ball the size... maybe the size of a giant jaw breaker ;)
Place it in the muffin pan and pat it down, it should just barely fill it- don't fill it too full cause you have to have room for your GLAZE... :)
Throw those in the oven for 15 min!

Mmm Glaze... This should be made in a separate bowl and set aside while your little meatloaf muffins are taking their sweet time to taste delicious!

15 min later, and look at these puppies go!

You're going to take your glaze and place a little on the top till all are covered. Once they are all covered go back and make sure they are REALLY covered with your extra sauce!
Pop those back in the oven for another 12 min!

WALA!! Look at this! I took a spoon and used it to make sure my little meatloaf muffins stayed together and put them on the plate!

The asparagus was made by butter and a little johnnys seasoning in a pan and throwing them in and making sure they are perfectly cooked- crisp and tasty!

Recipe:

Meatloaf:
muffin pans (2)
2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup finely ground bread crumbs
1/3 cup diced onion
3 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon honey dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sweet teriyaki sauce
sprinkle of garlic powder
sprinkle of ginger
2 lbs of raw ground hamburger

Glaze:
2 tablespoons honey dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sweet teriyaki sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup brown sugar

Oven should be set at 350 degrees
In a large bowl mix all your ingredients for the meatloaf except the hamburger. Make sure everything is mixed really good! Add your hamburger and take off your rings or jewelry cause its going to get messy!! Use your fingers and massage all that goodness into your meat! After everything is mashed together, roll them in small balls and pat them into your muffin pans. Make sure you leave room for your glaze! After they are filled, place them in the oven for 15 min.

While your waiting, take a small bowl and put all the glaze ingredients in it.

After 15 min, pull your muffin pans from the oven and place your glaze on them. Put them back in the oven for another 12 min.

Pull them out and let them cool for 5-10 min and there you go! :)

Please don't hesitate to leave comments with questions!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Thank you cards- Simple!

Using the brides colors, I used KISS method (For those of you that don't know, KISS is something I revert too often.. I tend to overthing things! Keep It Simple Stupid)

I used purple for a flower stamp on the envelope and used purple with green to stamp "thank you" on the card. Did simple vintage ribbon behind it.

Easily can be customize with any colors or ribbons- Please let me know if you are interested it some! I'm slowly working on a stock pile of cards to showcase on etsy so I can share my love for paper and crafts with EVERYONE!!!! :)

For my Bride's box, I tied all the envelopes and cards together with the ribbon and made them a package deal and I put it in the clothes pin!

To see the finished box:


Bride to be box or any means to a gift box!

This box... ohhh this box! The bride to be (Amy obviously) is so sweet and so deserving so I felt like giving her a little something more than just "something to unwrap" So thinking that, I put my brain to work and encorporated her wedding colors, love for vintage and mason jars, love for simple yet elegant and WALA came up with this.

The box is a sweet looking box I got from michaels and this was the most expensive thing I purchased. The little shreds of paper is easter basket filler and the little round white balls are suckers I found in a "vintage cream" color. Pina Colada to be exact!

I knew she enjoyed mason jars so I took the ones I had and filled them with none other than a womans best friend... CHOCOLATE!!! I found the nuggets at winco gold and silver wrapped- 4$ to fill both of them. I wrapped twine around the tops of them... and when I thought it was enough.. I went around a few more times!

The little compact mirror was 99 cents and was perfect for the theme. I had used her "wedding purple and green" and made my own coin envelope to enclose the gift card we had gotten for her. Added some rhinstones to make it pretty and placed it ever so pretty like in the open compact mirror!

The candle holder is a vase with burlap over it and rope around it. I filled it with little white uncented tea lights half way and tilted it just so!

The clothes pin, also 99 cents and its giant!!! I had made 12 thank you cards for her with her wedding colors on it and tied a ribbon around the envelopes and cards and stuck them in the clothes pin!!

The black letters I got at michaels, I decided to doll up with some "pearl" stickers as if you were making dot letters, and used a dot of glue to make them stick so she didn't have to keep them on there and could use the box over and over again.

I hope you get some ideas from this or feel free to use mine! I loved making it and seeing her happy was so nice and well worth it! Comment if you have any questions!