So it is Sunday which means Church and then cook a dinner with the family. So we decided it might help to get the kids involved in prepping the dinner. So they tore the ends off the Fresh Green Beans and snapped them in half. What follows from that point is one of the best dinners we have had in a long time and we have had some good ones lately.
Fresh Green Beans with Baby New Red Potatoes and Smoked Ham Hock.
We snapped the green beans and put them in a pot with the potatoes and Red Onions and Ham and filled it up with water. Stewed that on the stove for about 2 hours. It was Delicious needless to say. Eli hates green Beans with a passion and even he said they were good. Deanna said they were the best she ever ate.
That was just our side dish vegetables for the night too lol.
Main Dish was Meatloaf……… but before you say no way that is good let me tell you about it.
I took some olive oil and put it in my best saute pan then I dut up some red onion with a shallot and fresh garlic and sauteed them till they started to turn translucent then I chopped up some Baby Portabella Mushrooms and added them to the hot pan. I sauted that for a bit then added it all to a 50% of each ground beef and ground pork……. cooked it until all the fat came out and drained it off.
Needless to say it was the best meatloaf I have ever had and I am a fine connoisseur of meat shaped into square pans.
Be adventurous, step outside your culinary box, try something new today is my new motto.
Bon appetit