Linda Leonard’s Meat Loaf
• Two pounds of ground beef
• One pound of sausage
• ¼ cup of dried onions
• ¼ cup of dried green peppers
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of pepper
• 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon of mustard
• 2 cups of corn flake crumbs
• 3 eggs
• Brown Sugar Topping: ½ cup of ketchup and 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Place ground beef, sausage and eggs in a bowl. Mix well. Then add the other ingredients, mixing well. Pat into a loaf. Place in baking pan. Place in 325-degree oven and bake for 1½ hours or until golden brown. When meat is almost done, take out of oven.
Mix Brown sugar topping together then brush on meat loaf. Return to oven to finish baking.
Janet Nickerson’s Lemon Fluff & Berries
• 2 light, low fat lemon yogurt
• 1 sugar free cool whip
• 1 small box sugar-free lemon Jello
• ¼ cup of water
• 1 fresh lemon
Put yogurt in a medium size bowl. Put water in microwave and bring to boil. When boiling, add the Jello and stir until completely mixed. Pour in yogurt and mix, add most of sugar free cool whip. Save some for garnishing. Whip. Squeeze 1/2 lemon juice into mixture. Stir or whip. Pour into 8- by 8-inch baking dish and refrigerate for at least two hours. Slice and add cool whip and berries to each piece.
Carb Analysis: Weight Watcher Points – 1.56; Protein – 1.6; Calories – 77.8; Fat – 0; Carbs – 11.4; Fiber – 0; Sugar – 2.0.
SPRINGFIELD — Two Springfield women took home blue ribbons Wednesday in the Beef and Diabetic Dessert Dish of the Day competitions at the Clark County Fair.
Linda Leonard’s Meat Loaf trumped all other beef dishes submitted for competition. Judges commented on the meatloaf’s seasonings saying they were “very well done.”
It is a major win for the first-year Dish of the Day competitor, who also garnered a fifth place ribbon in the Pork Dish of they Day competition on Monday and a fourth place ribbon in the Poultry Dish of the Day competition Tuesday. Leonard also took first place in a cookie competition and second place in a fudge competition.
Entering the competition, she said, is her way of taking part while her grandchildren take part in Dog and Cloverbud 4H activities at the fair.
“I do a lot of cooking,” she said. “My father and mother cooked and they taught me to make something out of nothing.”
Her secret is using a combination of sausage and ground chuck with Worcestershire sauce, she said.
Her granddaughter, Brandilyn Leonard, 11, took fourth place in the Diabetic Dessert competition, won overall by Janet Nickerson’s Lemon Fluff and Berries.
Nickerson’s dessert was judged not only on taste and texture, but also on carbohydrate counts appropriate for diabetics. One judge told her it was the tastiest low-carbohydrate dessert he’s had in awhile, she said. The dessert, according to the carbohydrate analysis, contains 11.4 grams carbohydrates.
She said the recipe was made up, in a sense, in that it was basically a pie recipe without the crust. She felt the dessert offered a decent serving size while keeping the carbohydrate count low.
Nickerson also took first place in the Poultry Dish of the Day competition Tuesday for her Chicken and Noodles. Tuesday’s winner of the Raspberry Dish of the Day is Martin Howard for his Raspberry Ice Cream.
In other food competition news, 20 pies auctioned off Tuesday brought in $3,055 with Esther Pyle’s third place Pie Day pie bringing in a whopping $800. Money raised goes to the Clark County Pork Producers to be spent within the Clark County Fairgrounds and the Baked Goods Department.
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