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Hearty Meatloaf Recipes the Whole Family Will Enjoy

Great meatloaf is succulent; it’s bursting at the seams with a whole spectrum of flavors. A touch of sugar from a sticky, tangy barbecue sauce and tons of savory juices from crisp bacon drippings and sausage merge to create something new that will explode your taste buds. Enjoy these excellent meatloaf recipes with a side of creamy mashed potatoes and green beans for an exceptionally hearty meal tonight!

Bacon Wrapped Guinness and Cheddar Meatloaf (from The Galley Gourmet)

Turkey Meatloaf Muffins (from Julia Andrus Williams)

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Sirloin Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes (from Sanctuary from the Mad World)

Swirled Beef, Ham, & Spinach Meatloaf (from The Homesteading Housewife)

Glazed Southern Meatloaf (from Greg’s Kitchen)

Zucchini Meatloaf (from Eating Well… Living Thin(er!))

Tangy Meatloaf Bread (from Vanilla Sugar)

Barbecue-Glazed Meatloaf (from Happee Monkee)

Beef and Sausage Meatloaf with Roasted Bell (from Nook & Pantry)

Meatloaf Muffins topped with Mashed Potatoes (from For the Love of Cooking)

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Yummly’s Friday Food Roundup

Food and drink is an essential part of St. Patrick’s Day festivities – and with dishes as fabulous as these, you can spend your whole weekend feasting on the best the food world has to offer! If you want a real culinary trip through the Emerald Isles, hearty classics like like corned beef and cabbage is a fantastic way to go. Finish off dinner with shamrock-shaped, mossy green St. Patty’s Day treats and everyone will be feeling lucky! These, and plenty more delicious treats were offered up this week, so in case you missed ‘em, now’s the time to check them out.

1) Cookie Dough Desserts! Go Ahead. Lick the Spoon – Everyone is guilty of sampling the cookie dough before it’s cooked. Now it can be guilt-free!

Featured: Ingredients of a 20something, Kristine’s Kitchen, Baked Perfection, Laura’s Sweet Spot, The Cherry on Top, Stop Lookin’. Get Cookin’., how sweet it is, That Skinny Chick Can Bake, Savvy Eats

2) Pretzels Add the Perfect Twist to Any Dish – Crispy, salted pretzels are a great addition to dishes sweet or savory.

Featured: Young Married Chic, Stresscake, the moonlight baker, culinary catastrophe, eden eats everything, Delectable Musings, Outlander Kitchen, the little epicurean, rather be baking, Eastside Food Bites, cait’s plate, Made with Pink

3) Get Pink Slime Out of the Nation’s Ground Beef – Ammonia-sprayed, low-grade meat fillers are still being fed to children across the country! Find out what you can do to help.

4) Savory Home Cooked Classics from the Emerald Isle – Hearty and authentic Irish cuisines that everyone in the family will enjoy.

Featured: a sweet pea chef, good things grow, The Fresh Fridge, Happiness in a Pot, The Faux Martha, Cooking in Mammy’s Kitchen, Kayotic Kitchen, Bakeaholic Mama, The Daily Spud, Dimity Jones

5) Get Sweet on these St. Patty’s Day Desserts – Adorable sweet treats shaped into shamrocks, cold coins, rainbows, and more!

Featured: Buttercream Blondie, Does It Have Booze In It?, Urban Baker, Love + Cupcakes, Penny Candy Studios, love + butter, A Bitchin’ Kitchen, raspberri cupcakes, Grateful Prayer Thankful Heart, Bakingdom, Gourmet Recipes

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Photo Credits: a sweet pea chef and A Bitchin’ Kitchen

Festive and Boozy Beverages for St. Patrick’s Day

You don’t need to plan a legendary pub crawl, as many will be doing on St. Patrick’s Day, to drink spectacularly. Make your own whiskey cocktails and fun green drinks like these and you can have a dazzingly good holiday right at home. Even the drinks that don’t inebriate you will fill you with whimsy and nostalgia because of their sweet Irish charm and simplicity. Entertain all your friends (and whip up non-alcoholic versions for kids) with these fabulous drinks, and have a happy St. Patty’s Day!

Mint Chip Cookietini (from Snappy Gourmet)

Shamrock Smoothie (from fLAVORATOr)

Guinness Jello Shots (from 1 Fine Cookie)

Irish Buck (from surly kitchen)

Limesicle Shakes (from Harried Housewife Blog)

Boozy Shamrock Shake (from Piccante Dolce)

Sparkling Shamrock Champagne Cocktail (from Formal Fringe)

Whiskey and Creme de Menthe Cocktails (from nature insider)

Leprechaun’s Lunch (from The Slow Roasted Italian)

Irish Hot Chocolate (from The Heavenly Hearth)

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How to Safely Flambé Foods

Normally, a giant fire erupting at your dinner table would seem like a bad thing, but flambéed foods make for a spectacular visual effect that upends that conventional wisdom. The basic idea of behind the process is simple: you throw a little liquor onto a delicious food, light a match, and voila – you’re a flambé master! However, if you want to get the technique down properly, here are a few helpful tips to go by.

What kind of alcohol should you use?
Only liquors with a high alcohol content over 80-proof will achieve the desired effect, so most beers and wines will not work. Additionally, something to keep in mind is that the higher the alcohol content, the more readily it will ignite, so anything over 120-proof is considered too dangerous for the technique. Liquors like brandy, cognac, and rum are considered very good options.

Safety Tips and Instructions

Warm the alcohol to about 130 degrees Fahrenheit, never letting it reach its boiling point (175 degrees Fahrenheit), since this will cause the alcohol to burn off.
When you’re ready to add the alcohol to the pan of whatever it is you would like to flambé, remove the pan from heat first. For safety reasons, do not flambé something over a hot burner.
Use a long fireplace match to ignite the flames.
The flames should fade on their own since the alcohol vapors burn off, but if you need to stifle the flames, use a pot lid or shake the pan vigorously.

Here are a few Yummly recipes that utilize this technique that you should try!

Peach and Berries Flambe (from The Ravenous Couple)

Grilled Pork Medallions with Apple Maple Glaze (from Nibble Me This)

Mangoes Flambé

Steak Flambe Moutarde

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Photo Credits: The Ravenous Couple, Good Food and Wine Show

Get Sweet on These St. Patty’s Day Desserts

St. Patrick’s day is the one day out of the year that looking green is a great thing, and with some green dye, frosting, and sprinkles, you can add even more festivity to your own holiday weekend. Many of these crafty confections are great to make with kids, and there are a few boozy treats that adults will love too. Share these delicious green goodies with your friends and family, and everyone around will feel like they’ve struck gold!

Baileys Irish Cream Cookies (from Buttercream Blondie)

Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Irish Cream Frosting (from Does It Have Booze In It?)

Irish Cream Coffee Chocolate Truffles (from Urban Baker)

Gold Irish Butter & Oats Sandwich Cookies (from Love + Cupcakes)

Lime Cheesecake Cupcakes with Gold Coins (from Penny Candy Studios)

Irish Car Bomb Brownie Bites (from love + butter)

Green Velvet Cupcakes (from A Bitchin’ Kitchen)

Shamrock Macarons with Baileys Chocolate Ganache (from raspberri cupcakes)

Shamrock Milkshake (from Grateful Prayer Thankful Heart)

End of the Rainbow Cupcakes (from Bakingdom)

White Chocolate Lollipops (from Gourmet Recipes)

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Savory Home Cooked Classics from the Emerald Isle

If you’re looking for your pot of gold, look no further than these solid gold meals! Everyone excited for the upcoming holiday (or just hankering for something savory and satisfying) should gear up for the celebration by cooking these simple, authentic Irish dishes. Hearty helpings of an Emerald Isle staple like corned beef and cabbage will raise your whole family’s St. Patrick’s Day spirits, and the awesome leftovers ensure it’ll be a gift that keeps on giving too! Pair it with a delicious side of traditional Irish champ and a cold Guinness, and you’re set for a whole week of awesome eats.

Corned Beef and Cabbage (from a sweet pea chef)

Colcannon (from Good Things Grow)

Irish Potato Soup and Honey Beer Bread (from The Fresh Fridge)

Guinness-Braised Beef Short Ribs (from Happiness in a Pot)

Irish Soda Bread (from The Faux Martha)

Dublin Coddle (from Cooking in Mammy’s Kitchen)

Steamed Cod, Champ and Mustard Sauce (from Kayotic Kitchen)

Drunken Irish Stew (from Bakeaholic Mama)

Boxty, Irish Potato Pancakes (from The Daily Spud)

Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy (from Dimity Jones)

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Get Pink Slime Out of The Nation’s Ground Beef

As it was mentioned in “5 Facts the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know,” not all the ingredients in our food are listed on the label. The latest outcry in the war against mystery food revolves around “Pink Slime” – a disturbingly popular ground beef filler made of low-grade meat throwaways that have been treated heavily with ammonium. It’s been widely used for the last decade and up until recently, most nationwide fast food chains (including McDonalds, Taco Bell, and Burger King) have used it as filler for their burgers. Many believe that up to 70% of the ground beef in the market today contains it.

What’s very distressing to many people, particularly parents, is that one of the most notable purchasers and users of “Pink Slime” is the National School Lunch Program, the federally assisted system that helps provide inexpensive food to children across America every school day. This slime filler, which was formerly one of the primary ingredients in dog food, is being used to maximize the output of food, but at what cost? While it makes ground beef cheaper, findings from the NY Times suggests that the process is not truly safe, despite what the USDA says.

Considering many items on the label are already listed with near-inscrutable chemical names and vague blanket terms like “natural flavors,” that there is potential for so many other non-specified ingredients is a valid cause for concern. The case of “carmine” food coloring comes to mind, a red dye which was discovered to be made from Cochineal bugs after certain individuals reported severe allergic reactions to it.

If you want to speak out against this pink slime in some small way, you can start with signing this online petition to “Tell the USDA to stop using Pink Slime in Food!” Don’t wait until more harm comes out of the unscrupulous actions of big organizations and do something today!

Photo Credits: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, Robert Shapiro/USA Today, Business Insider

Amp Up Your Dinner with Succulent Sausage

Whether you call them bangers or franks, there’s one certainty known well throughout the meat-eating world: sausage makes every savory dish better! Those encased, exceptionally juicy seasoned ground meats add a ton of flavor to meals – it’s no wonder that varieties like andouille or kielbasa are such beloved staples in cuisines across the world. Grab your favorite kinds of sausage at the grocery store and cook up one of these fantastically succulent recipes; the only hard part will be deciding which one to try first!

Banger Stew with Red Mashed Potatoes (from Adventures in Cooking)

Cannellini Bean, Tomato and Sausage Stew (from Burwell General Store)

Kielbasa with Sauteed Red Onions (from Rattlebridge Farm)

Sage & Sausage Pie with Onion Gravy (from Scrumptious Sally)

Cauliflower Salad with Crisp-Fried Chorizo Sausage (from Scrumptious)

Sausage and Sauerkraut Fritters (from Food Republic)

Kale, Sausage, and Potato Soup (from Apronless)

Sausage, Mushroom, and Sundried Tomato Lasagna (from two little chefs)

Fennel Pork Sausage Rolls (from i am a food blog)

Sausage Stuffed Turkey Breast (from Vivek’s Epicurean Adventures)

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Pretzels Add the Perfect Twist to Any Dish

Since its introduction to the states in the 19th century, pretzels have become a staple! Sure, you can grab ‘em by the bag at the grocery store or pick up one at the food court, but what’s even better is making a fresh batch at home and turning them into super-deluxe pretzels with your own tasty extras! Try turning two fresh baked pretzels into a giant salty-sweet ice cream sandwiches! Or crumble up crispy ones to add a creative coating to fried chicken. Either way, these recipes are just the twist your routine menu is looking for.

Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies (from Young Married Chic)

Pretzel Rolls (from Stresscake)

Chocolate Pot de Crème with Caramel Pretzel Crunch (from the moonlight baker)

Salted Caramel Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Drizzled Pretzels (from culinary catastrophe)

Pot Pies with a Pretzel Crust (from Eden Eats Every Thing)

Soft Pretzels (from Delectable Musings)

Salted Chocolate Pretzel Balls (from Outlander Kitchen)

Guinness Brownies with Butterscotch Fudge (from the little epicurean)

Oreo Cheesecake Pretzel Sandwiches (from rather be baking)

Pretzel Bites (from Eastside Food Bites)

Fresh Pretzel Bun Sandwiches (from cait’s plate)

Take 5 Pretzel and Chocolate Cookies (from Made with Pink)

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Cookie Dough Desserts! Go Ahead. Lick the Spoon.

Every kid (and plenty of adults) nabs a little raw cookie dough freshly mixed from the bowl. Who could blame them for a quick dab of the pinky when no one’s looking? Cookie dough is buttery and sweet with an allure uniquely apart from the crumbly cookie it’s bound to become. If you get a little sad whenever you see that pan of dough go into the oven, these recipes are for you! That quintessentially “cookie dough” flavor is the star, and these awesome confections deliver the goods with style.