• Home
  • About
  • Contact
Eat 2 Gather

Eat 2 Gather

  • Food
    • recipes
    • What’s 4 dinner
    • Meals 4 Sharing
    • Pie of the Month
    • Kitchen Tips
    • Restaurant Reviews
  • Family
    • confessions
    • travel
    • adoption
  • Fellowship
    • Giveaways
    • Entertaining
    • Book Club
    • Blogs I Read
    • Photography

October 30, 2013 ·

Italian Turkey Meatloaf Muffins

Food· Uncategorized· What's 4 dinner

  • Share
  • Tweet

If you don’t already follow my friend Liz’s blog The Lemon Bowl, you may remember her from the recent surprise baby shower that two other blogging friends and I threw her.  Liz and I could not be more different as far as our blogs go.  Which is why I love that she was willing to take the time to be my What’s 4 Dinner ~ Dinner Dilemma guest blogger today!  I definitely do not have all the answers and I want to be able to provide you with as many choices as possible to solve your dinner dilemma, luckily some amazing bloggers have been willing to add their expertise on how to solve the dilemma!!

 

Untitled Image 2First, I want to take the time to introduce you to Liz and her blog.  The Lemon Bowl is a healthy food blog focused on simple, real foods that just so happen to be good for you! Liz has an incredible and inspirational weight loss success story that you just have to read, from this she started her blog as a way to share the recipes that she was enjoying as a way to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  Liz has an 80/20 philosophy on eating that I really need to implement!! Like ASAP.

 “I am a firm believer in the 80/20 rule and try to eat clean foods 80% of the time so that I can indulge with out guilt 20% of the time.”  Liz of The Lemon Bowl 

I am fortunate to call Liz a “real life” friend, she lives only 20 minutes from me with her husband and their 2 year old son, who I might add loves his “Aunt” Sheila!

988320_10153299564940462_1699237040_n

Right now getting dinner on the table for Liz is hard because being in the third trimester of her pregnancy  is exhausting her!  Her energy tends to plummet after 2pm every days so dinner time is not easy.  Liz says that she imagines that once baby arrives, the exhaustion will be endless do to sleepless nights and caring all day for busy toddler and baby……. fast and easy will be essential to getting dinner on the table.  And to that I would say BINGO!  Those toddler years were tough.  Luckily for Liz her 2 year old (and her husband 😉 )  appreciate her good cooking!  So her work in the kitchen is not for not!

So with out further ado I’m going to hand this post over to Liz…..

Hi Friends! My name is Liz and I’m the healthy food blogger behind The Lemon Bowl where I share simple recipes with an emphasis on seasonality. Sheila is one of my dearest friends and best blogging buddies so I am thrilled to be here today to share one of my family’s favorite go-to weeknight dinners.

My husband is Italian and could eat meatloaf every day of the week so these meatloaf muffins make a common appearance in our house. The great thing about cooking meatloaf in a muffin pan is that the cooking time is reduced in half. Since I’m a busy mom of a toddler and expecting a second baby any day now, I am all for time-saving dinners!

Italian Turkey Meatloaf Muffins

As with all of my recipes, they are more of a method than an exact science. Feel free to swap out your favorite ingredients and flavors to make it your own. For example, if you have ground beef on hand go ahead and use it instead of turkey. If your family has gluten allergies, skip the bread crumbs – they aren’t 100% necessary and the meatloaf will still turn out fine. Hate garlic? Leave it out. Love spicy foods? Add a couple pinches of red chili flakes.

Whatever you do, just get in the kitchen and share a delicious meal with your family. You won’t regret it.
Your fork is waiting.

 Italian Turkey Meatloaf Muffins - Wide

[print_this]

Italian Turkey Meatloaf Muffins ~ from The Lemon Bowl 
serves 4

Ingredients:
1 pound ground Turkey Breast (or ground sirloin)
6 Sun-dried Tomatoes packed in oil – minced
¼ cup grated Parmesan
¼ cup Parsley – minced
¼ cup Italian Bread Crumbs
2 tablespoons fresh Basil – minced
1 Egg
1 clove Garlic – grated
½ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Pepper

Topping: 
¼ cup Ketchup
2 tablespoons Dijon

Directions:

  1. Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees and spray muffin pan with cooking spray.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine all meatloaf ingredients (ground turkey through pepper) until well incorporated. Don’t be afraid to take your rings off and get your hands involved!
  3. Divide mixture evenly between muffin tins. Mix together ketchup and Dijon topping in a small bowl and brush evenly on top of each meatloaf muffin.
  4. Bake for 20 minutes and serve over rice blend (shown), mashed potatoes or starch of choice. Garnish with extra basil or fresh parsley if you have on hand.

[/print_this]

 

Liz thank you so much for being her today!  Make sure that you stop by Liz’s blog. She really has some amazing recipes, and I love that every recipe gives you all the nutritional information along with it.

Make sure to follow Liz on Pinterest  Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date on healthy made delicious!!

FOLLOW the Dinner Dilemma Pinterest Board and never miss a What’s 4 Dinner blog post!!!

 

Previous Post: « Muffin Monday ~ Dutch Applesauce Muffin
Next Post: Iowa the Heart of America ~ CornQuest recap! »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says

    October 30, 2013 at 8:23 am

    Thank you so much for having me Sheila!!! Love that photo of you and Asher!! xoxo

  2. Aggie says

    October 30, 2013 at 10:19 am

    Oh…fast and easy is the name of the game right now (and always really). I love these to make ahead during the day. And I totally know my kids will eat them so that makes it even better. These looks totally delicious!

    (Love both of you girls! 🙂 And I wish I lived 20 minutes away!!)

    • Sheila says

      October 30, 2013 at 12:39 pm

      Aggie, Honestly getting on the table when you have a baby is like running a marathon (not that I’ve done that…). Thanks for stopping by! Wish you were 20 hours closer too!! xoxo Sheila

  3. Lauren @ Climbing Grier Mountain says

    October 30, 2013 at 12:00 pm

    First of all, Liz is da’bomb!!! Second, I am totally digging these turkey meatloaf muffins! So easy and delicious! xoxo

  4. christine davis says

    October 30, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    how many servings does this make?

    • Sheila says

      October 31, 2013 at 8:46 am

      This recipe makes 4 servings. Thanks for stopping by! XO Sheila

  5. Sandy says

    October 31, 2013 at 11:06 am

    Loved this post!! The meatloaf muffins sound so easy and yummy! I sure would love to have the recipe for the rice too!! Looks fabulous 🙂

  6. Erin says

    January 3, 2014 at 11:57 pm

    I used this recipe but I made mine burger style! Delicious! Good to know you can take the same ingredients and serve it 2 different ways!

    • Sheila says

      January 5, 2014 at 4:19 pm

      Great idea! Love it your creativity thanks for sharing! & and for stopping by. Have a great day, Sheila

Primary Sidebar

My passion is sharing my family's favorite recipes, in hopes of bringing your family together around the table. I’m so glad you are here! read more...

Recipe Search

Browse by Category

~ Featured on ~

Foodista Food Blog of the Day Badge

Lets be friends on Goodreads!

Sheila's bookshelf: read

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
5 of 5 stars
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
by Bob Goff
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
4 of 5 stars
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Same Kind of Different as Me
4 of 5 stars
Same Kind of Different as Me
by Ron Hall
The Alchemist
3 of 5 stars
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
0 of 5 stars
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
by Edward Kelsey Moore

goodreads.com

Dare 2 Care

Free online sign up sheets by VolunteerSpot TakeThemAMeal.com

Footer

The pursuit of food, family, & fun.

Copyright © 2023 · beloved theme by Restored 316

0 shares