Meatballs

I make these for potluck parties. They are good and feed a bunch of people. But when I make them for us, we put them over rice. The home made sauce is a sweet sauce but it is so yummy. I've just made it to have with hamburgers.

3lbs hamburger 2cups oatmeal
2eggs 1-14oz sweetened condensed milk
1onion diced 1T pepper
1T chili powder 1T garlic powder
½ tsp salt

Combine above ingredients & form into walnut-sized balls. Bake @ 350for 20 minutes. Turn half way through baking. Put meatballs in crock-pot & pour sauce (below) over them.

Sauce
2cups ketchup, 2cups brown sugar
2T liquid smoke (if desired)
Put ingredients in small sauce pan, bring to a boil, and stir often.

Hamburger Soup

This is fast and the kids love to help put stuff in the pot.

Brown 1 lb ground beef with 1 onion chopped and 2 cloves garlic in a large stock pot Add 2 cans beef stock, 1 C. water, 2 can diced tomatoes, 2 T. sugar, 1 ½ C. frozen corn, 2 C baby carrots (I cut them in 3rd) 3 potatoes peeled & diced, 1/3 C. taco seasoning, ½ C. potato pearls. Salt & pepper to taste. Set a side 1 C grated mozzarella cheese.
Cook for until vegetables are tender. Add cheese to individual servings.

Raw Apple Cake

This is one of my grandma's. It is yummy!

Mix together2 C. sugar, 1 C. oil. Stir in 2 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla. Add 3 C. grated raw apples (with peelings). Blend in mixture 3 C. flour, 1 tsp. baking soda,
1 tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. salt. Batter will be thick. Pour into oiled 9x13 baking pan. Sprinkle the top with ½ C sugar & 1 tsp. cinnamon mixture.
Bake @ 325 for 45 to 60 min.