Cheesy Enchilada Inspired Meatloaf

Cheesy Enchilada Inspired Meatloaf, Steve Jobs Priceless Wisdom

Hello Friends –

Seize the Wednesday!

Hope your week is moving along fab-u-lous-ly.
Been a chill week so far for me + my little furry family.
We’re all enjoying the temps falling into fall.  Been a little bit of a wait – but well worth the fall’s breath of fresh air.
Windows and doors popped open and the streaks of sunlight stretching into this home via windows and open doors are pleasantly comfortable and not screaming sunray summer hot!

Hope you are enjoying the same.

PRESENTING WEDNESDAY READER THIS OCTOBER 23rd!

  • OUTSTANDING HALLOWEEN ARTWORK + HILARIOUS CARTOONS
  • FASCINATING FACTS AND TRIVIA
    I seriously feel smarter and more interesting reading Leslie’s collection than I did this time yesterday.
  • QUICK QUESTION
    Cheesy movies?
    Me?  Not so much.
    But isn’t it wonderful that everyone’s funny bone is tickled differently?
  • STEVE JOBS’ PRICELESS WISDOM
    Is indeed priceless.
    My favorite take-away was — “Be a yardstick of quality …”
  • RECIPE FOR CHEESY ENCHILADA INSPIRED MEATLOAF
    Is so-so-so-so delicious!
    Great twist on an old school comfort favorite.
    I’m also thinking/wondering/mouth watering … what IF it was smoked inside a backyard grill?
    (( ** hint-hint  Trent and Toby.  What are your thoughts being the grill masters that you are? ** ))
  • TRACY BECKERMAN
    Is always so relatable and spot-on week after week.
    This particular piece today speaks to my feet and choice of foot attire.
    I could live in flip-flops or Birkenstock’s year ’round.
    Actually, kinda-sorta do.
    Save going outside to walk my 3 and/or going to work or yard work.
    Then – Plan B – laces up!
    Flips off and tennis shoes on.
    I have numerous pairs of both flips and tennis shoes.
    Just ask my family.
    I’ve been teased by them forever for all of the above.
    And I proudly own/wear it.  ha!
  • GRATITUDE ALL (!)
    For sliding by today and giving us a read + sharing + caring + and spreading your love.

    WISHING YOU A GREAT REST OF THE WEEK!
    Catch ya Friday
    Same time
    Same Place

POP Quiz

POP QUIZ

  1. “FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN” EQUALS HOW MUCH?
    a) 27
    b) 28
    c) 87
    d) 107
  2. WHICH FOUNDING FATHER OF THE UNITED STATES PUBLISHED NEWSPAPER ARTICLES UNDER THE PSEUDONYMS ALICE ADDERTONGUE AND SILENCE DOGOOD?
    a) Samuel Adams
    b) Benjamin Franklin
    c) John Hancock
    d) Thomas Paine
  3. WHAT WEATHER EVENT TAKES ITS NAME FROM A SPANISH WORD MEANING “TO TWIST”?
    a) Derecho
    b) Hurricane
    c) Mistral
    d) Tornado

Cheesy Enchilada Inspired Meatloaf

QUICK QUESTION

DO YOU LIKE CHEESY MOVIES?

Cheesy Enchilada Inspired Meatloaf

POP QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. A score is equivalent to 20, so “four score and seven” equals 87.
  2. Benjamin Franklin published newspaper articles under the pseudonyms Alice Addertongue and Silence Dogood.
  3. The word tornado comes from the Spanish verb tornar, meaning to twist or to turn.

~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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PRICELESS WISDOM
FROM STEVE JOBS

This is amazing insight from an amazing man who changed the world in his own lifetime.
Here’s a selection of some of the most inspiring things he said:

  • Steve Jobs said,
    “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “Be a yardstick of quality.  Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.  If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
    Don’t settle.  As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat.  We wear clothes other people make.
    We speak a language that other people developed.  We use a mathematics that other people evolved…
    I mean we’re constantly taking things.  It’s a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something that puts
    it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’  It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer
    when you want to turn your brain on.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.
    It’s very character building.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “We’re here to put a dent in the universe.  Otherwise why else even be here?”
  • Steve Jobs said,
    “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.  Don’t be trapped by dogma –
    which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.  Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions
    drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and
    intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
    Everything else is secondary.”

~ from my fantastic collection of old emails

JUST BECAUSE I CANNOT SEE IT, DOESN’T
MEAN I CAN’T BELIEVE IT.
~ JACK SKELLINGTON ~

SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED:

DONATE GOOD BOOKS TO
A NURSING HOME/CARE FACILITY.

TIP OF THE DAY:
“What requires salt requires sugar.”
I was reminded of those 5 words my 87 year
grandma would speak just this week.
Here I was boiling potatoes for mashing
and had definitely over salted the water.

Grandma to the rescue!
I took out my sugar bowl and poured a
little sugar into the water and it saved
this girl’s mashed potato day!

RIDDLE ME THIS –

SPELLED FORWARDS I’M WHAT YOU DO
EVERYDAY.  SPELLED BACKWARD I’M
SOMETHING YOU HATE.
WHAT AM?

Cheesy Enchilada Inspired Meatloaf

CHEESY ENCHILADA INSPIRED MEATLOAF

This meatloaf is a wonderful twist on the classic we’re familiar with from back in the day to now.
Serve with a side of seasoned pinto beans and a handful salad.
“Handful” meaning – shredded lettuce topped with diced tomatoes.

HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT
INGREDIENTS:

  • 2/3 cup plain panko bread crumbs
  • 1 (15 ounce) can red enchilada sauce (I like Hatch brand)
  • 1 small yellow onion, minced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chiles  – hot or mild – your choice
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 (1 – ounce) packet of taco seasoning (I like McCormick brand)
  • 2 pounds ground burger (80/20)
  • 1 (8 ounce) block Monterey Jack/Colby cheese
  • 1/2 cup favorite red salsa

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Preheat oven to 350*
  2. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
  3. Set aside.
  4. In a large bowl combine bread crumbs, eggs, 1/2 cup enchilada sauce, onion, garlic, green chiles, taco seasoning and ground chuck
    (I use my clean hands to entirely combine)
  5. Take about 1/3 of meat mixture and form the base layer of  the meatloaf (in a 9″ x 5″ rectangle shape)
  6. Place the entire block of Monterey Jack/Colby cheese in the center of meat and slightly press down.
  7. Add the remaining meat mixture on top, covering the cheese.
  8. Seal edges all together so the cheese doesn’t try to melt out.

MAKE OVERALL TOP SAUCE:

  • In a small bowl combine remaining enchilada sauce with salsa.

EVENLY SPOON OVER TOP OF THE MEATLOAF

BAKE FOR ABOUT 60 – 70 MINUTES UNTIL THE INTERNAL TEMP OF MEATLOAF REACHES 160*

REMOVE FROM OVEN AND LET REST FOR 10 MINUTES
SCRAPE AWAY ANY FAT THAT ACCUMULATES AROUND THE MEATLOAF
USE A WIDE SPATULA TO TRANSFER THE MEATLOAF TO CUTTING BOARD OR SERVING PLATTER

PLATE WITH HEATED SEASONED PINTO BEANS AND HANDFUL SALAD

SERVE WITH OPTIONAL GARNISHES:

  • Sour cream
  • Fresh chopped cilantro
  • Pico de gallo
  • Avocado slices

~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box

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PUTTING MY FOOT DOWN
BY TRACY BECKERMAN

For all the obsessing I’ve done about my body parts, the one area that has always escaped the harsh glare of my overcritical eye is my feet.  Certainly they are not perfect feet, and Manolo Blahnik would never have beat down my door to have me model his shoes.  But as feet go, they are fairly unassuming; I would even go so far as to say cute.  I certainly have the best feet in my family and, having seen pictures of celebrity feet, I can honestly say I actually have nicer feet than some Hollywood starlets.  On the downside, they are half a size bigger than they were before I had kids.  However, the are the ONLY part of me that’s not a full size bigger than before I had kids, so for that, I am grateful to them.

So, with all that good foot karma going on, it came as something of a shock to me when someone had the audacity to say something about my terrific tootisies.

“You have very flat feet,” said the podiatrist.  “That’s why your feet hurt.  You have no arch support.”

I wiggled my pretty painted red toes, pedicured to perfection just for this visit to the foot doctor.  “They don’t look flat to me,” I protested.

She picked up a plastic model of a foot that was on the counter nearby and held it next to my foot.  Her dummy foot had an arch.  My real foot did not.

“You need orthotics.  And these,” she said, holding up my flip-flops, “are going in the garbage.”

I gasped, no flip-flops was unthinkable.  I loved flip-flops.  I lived in flip-flops.  I wore nothing but flip-flops from the first day of spring until the last day of fall.  I had an entire shoe rack of color-coded flip-flops to go with every conceivable clothing combination.  I even had high-heeled flip-flops.  All hail the Queen of Flip-Flops.

“Maybe if I just got a good foot massage or some reflexology, they’d feel better,” I offered.

She shook her head, took my hand, looked me square int the eye and said, “You need orthotics, and you need a shoe that can hold an orthotic.  Your flip-flop days are over.  I’m sorry.”

As she left the room to get my orthotic mold, I glanced around and suddenly noticed a rack in the back filled with orthopedic shoes.  I looked from cute little flip-flops to these big clunky clodhoppers and realized my footwear options were about to take a very unattractive turn.

Now, clearly with the aforementioned love of flip-flops, it’s no surprise that I’ve never won any awards for my choice of footwear.  I tend toward a more eclectic collection than your everyday heels, boots and sneakers.  I have camouflage-colored clogs and black patent leather cowboy boots.  My favorite sneakers are neon orange with green laces.  High fashion, they’re not.  But I love all my weird shoes, and even though my flat feet were killing me, I wasn’t willing to give up my shoes for a closet full of clodhoppers.

That night I told my husband my tale of woe.

“I have flat feet,” I said.

“I have flat feet too,” he echoed.

“The doctor says I have to wear orthotics.”

“I wear orthotics too,” he said.

“And I’ll have to wear clodhoppers.”

“You don’t have to wear clodhoppers,” he assured me.

“Really?”

“Really.

“Now I know why I married you,” I told him.

“Because I’m a nice guy?”

“No,” I said.  “Because we’re sole mates!”

~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon:  A Story of Life, Love and Kibble.”
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Fascinating Stuff

  • Four is the only number equal to the number of letters in its English name.  The same is true for vier, the German word for four.  The Spanish word for five is cinco — five letters.  And tre, the word for three in Italian, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, has three letters.  Just something to think about.
  • Plenty of female writers have used men’s names as pseudonyms.  Amantine-Lucile_Aurore Dupin and Mary Ann Evans wrote as George Sand and George Eliot, repectively.  Even the Bronte sisters used male pseudonyms to ensure publisher’s would read their submissions.  More unusual is a man writing under a woman’s name, as Septimus Winner was known to do.  The writer of the popular Civil War-era songs, such as “Listen to the Mocking Bird” and “Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?” published his more sentimental tunes under the name Alice Hawthorne.
  • The largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa in Hawaii.  At 6.3 miles across, it’s undeniably huge.  But it’s a peewee compared to Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system.  Situated in the Tharsis Montes volcanic region of Mars, Olympus Mons is about 16 miles high and 374 miles across, with a volume that’s about 100 times greater than that of Mauna Loa.
  • In Sweden, Sept. 3, 1967, is remembered as Dagen H (H Day), the day drivers switched from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right.  (H stands for Hoger, the Swedish word for “right.”)  Streets nationwide were closed for hours to give road crews a chance to rearrange road signs.  Then, at 4:50 am, Swedish drivers switched sides and never looked back.
  • Give the ancient Greeks credit for their wacky sense of humor, especially their wildly creative accounts of deaths of great men.  The playwright  Aeschylus, for example, was said to have met his end when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.  Chrysippus, the philosopher, saw a donkey eating figs, gave him wine to wash them down and found this so hilarious that he died laughing.  That’s quite an ironic end for a Stoic, who wasn’t prone to showing emotion, if it’s true — which it almost certainly is not.

~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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4 replies
  1. Stacy says:

    Great Artwork indeed! I totally get Beckermans flip flop woes…I still keep my dainty flat flip flops but I can only wear them for a short amount of time and not when I will be doing alot of walking but I refuse to totally give them up!

  2. Carol says:

    Love Steve Jobs’ wisdom! Lots to think about. . .

    Enchilada meatloaf is win-win for me – Mexican food flavor and lots of cheese. Maybe we’ll try smoking it!

    And great artwork and fun facts.

    Smiling into the afternoon.

  3. Marty says:

    The Halloween art illustrations continue being fabulous. As Daymaker Cheryl talked about doors and windows open to catch the fall in the air, I smiled with the familiarity of it. I, too, open our home for FALL sunshine and cool breezes. I call it, “Let the good times roll!” There’s something about it, either inside or out, to pull up a comfy chair and count our blessings.

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