Skillet Meat Loaf

Ingredients:

• Ground Beef (about the size of six decks of cards)-- sorry I have a hard time measuring meat
• 3 eggs (whisked)
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 onion (minced)
• 1/2 bell pepper (diced)
• 3 large mushrooms (chopped)
• salt and pepper
• two cloves garlic (minced)
• tsp cayenne
• tsp chili powder
• tsp thyme
• tsp parsley
• 2 pieces of whole wheat bread
• 1/2 lemon
• ketchup

Directions

1. Saute the onion, bell pepper, mushrooms, garlic in a large skillet. Add all the seasons and spices and let it cook until wilted.
2. Meanwhile, get the thawed but raw ground beef and add it to the whisked eggs and flour.  Mush it around with a fork or your hands until mixed.  
3. Once the veggies are cooked add them into the bowl with the beef and mix.  Squeeze the lemon into the mixture too and tear up the bread into small pieces and  mix.
4. Poor the mixture back into the large skillet you used to cook the veggies, and smoosh it flat on the pan and evenly.  Cook on each side on a medium high heat.  Kind of like a hamburger.  Before you flip the first time squirt ketchup all over the top, once you flip it after five or so minutes squirt it on the new side that's up.  
5. Continue flipping Until the meat and egg is cooked.  Wait as long as you like to flip.  The longer you wait the more of a crust it will form and look more like a meat loaf.  

Notes

I made this recipe up today, and it is one of my favorite ground beef recipes.  It will feed about three adults.  It tasted pretty fresh for a ground beef dish.  I don't like ground beef much, but I've been making chicken every night for two weeks straight so we needed to change. But  I'm so sick of cream of mushrooms/chickens, and spaghetti, and lasagnas.  So it was a nice change.  LOVED the zest.  Enjoy.  

Protein Bars

Ingredients:

• 1.5 c. raisins (chopped ultra fine in processor or blender)
• 2 c. oats
• 1 c. smooth peanut butter mix
• 3 T. chia seeds
• 4 T. flax ground
• 4 scoops vanilla whey (or 1/2 c. powdered milk if you don't have whey)
• 1/2 c. chocolate chips crushed
• honey or light corn syrup

Directions:

Grind raisins in food processor or blendor.  This will be the sweetener.  Then put chocolate chips in a plastic baggy and roll them into small chunks with a rolling pin.  Then add all the ingredients into an electric mixer for quite a long time. Once there are no chunks drizzle honey or light corn syrup while mixer is on low until you can ball it in your hand.  Compress it in small logs in your hand and store in refrigerator.

Notes:

These are so good. Kind of taste like a healthy version of no-bake cookies.  I will make these for Jeff to go on the road.

Source: my sister Evelyn