Milkshakes, Smoothies, Lassi, Frappes, Mocha

What is it?
Many people confuse what is a shake, smoothie, frappe, or even others like malt shake and lassi. It's all in what the base of it is. It all comes down to a liquid base which automatically changes it's name.

There are 5 different blender refreshment drinks that you can make in a blender.

What is a Milk Shake?

A milk shake contains milk, or ice cream, half -n- half or any cream base. Any of those dairy products in a blender is what makes it a shake. It doesn't matter what else it may or may not contain. A milk shake may have chocolate, or fruits vegetables or anything else except coffee. Will go into why a shake cannot contain coffee later. Read on. It makes no difference if a milk shake has any or no ice in it or whether it has a lot of ice. Ice doesn't make or break the milkshake or any other type of blender recipe.

A milk may have fruits and/or any vegetables in it. That makes no difference in whether it is considered a milk shake or smoothie. But it must contain any milk liquid product.

What is a Smoothie?

The base for any smoothie is simply any fruit or/and vegetable juice but no milk. Some believe that ever if a smoothie does have milk in it it will be considered a smoothie. That is not true. How much ice you put in or how little has nothing to do with smoothies either. A smoothie must have any fruit or vegetable in it with juices.

That is the main reason why smoothies are considered "healthy". A vegetarian or vegan who does not like dairy products will have smoothies. Anyone with any dairy allergies will also prefer smoothies and not drink milk shakes.

What is a Lassi?

The base for a lassi is simply, yogurt. Usually, it does contain the fruit mango as the preferred fruit of choice with any type of yogurt in it, but mangoes are not required. If you put in a blender any fruit and add the yogurt in it, it is called lassi.

Lassi comes from India. Many Indian add yogurt to the shakes and other meals to refresh  and cool down their taste buds from the curry or other spices used in their foods. Yogurt is very soothing.

What is a frappe?

Any shake  that contains coffee in it. Usually it has already brewed strong coffee product with the same amount of dairy milk product in it.

What is a mocha?

Same as a frappe but add the chocolate. So, any shake with coffee AND chocolate in it is a "mocha".

Cathy's Memorable Meatloaf

I had found a recipe like this one many years ago in a message board which now doesn't exist called Jim's Memorable Meatloaf. I had been using that recipe for a while and loved it and so did everybody else who tried it.

Well, with all moving I had done, I lost that recipe unfortunately. And as much as later on I tried to remember what that recipe was exactly, I could not remember. Bits and pieces yes but not everything and never mind know what those exact measurements were. So I came up with my own and with many trials, I finally got this one right! I am very pleased with this meatloaf and this does remind me of that wonderful recipe I had lost long time ago.

The actual recipe is below.

I went out back to my garden for some green onions that I am growing and thought these were good to add in my recipe. So I added it with vandalian onions.

With a bit of olive oil in the sauce pan, I added half an onion with some green onions and one teaspoon crushed or diced garlic and cook them until translucent but not brown. Just 3 minutes about.

I get a packet of instant oatmeal from Quaker. I cook any flavor I want as package directed. This one is regular. Set aside to cool while continuing the rest of this recipe.

In a bowl, I add two eggs then 1/2 cup whole milk, mustard, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and beat it. These are all wet ingredients. I add this egg and milk mixture to the meatloaf, but only just enough to get it wet a bit. Save some for later in case you may need it again.

In another larger bowl, I add in 2 pounds ground meat though sometimes I will instead add in one pound ground meat and one pound ground pork meat so you can do it whichever way you wish.
Add in the fresh parsley, this is from my garden. The cooked and cooled onions and garlic mixture goes in here too. Add in the cooked oatmeal. Mix it in there.

For the Glaze that will be brushed or spooned onto the meatloaf, I used 1 cup of ketchup and added in 4 tsp white distilled vinegar and 4 tsp of brown sugar then stirred it together. I put this in the microwave and heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Then just brush over the meatloaf but not all at once. Save some for later. You will need it again later.

I form my meatloaf like this. It should not stick to any sides but if it does, just add a bit more egg and milk mixture and mix again. I also use aluminum foil sprayed with Pam so that it won't stick while it's cooking later.

Then brush on or in my case, I just use a regular tablespoon and spread some of the heated glaze sauce all over the meatloaf.

Bake the meatloaf in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Take the meatloaf out after 45 minutes to brush more glaze sauce so that it will not get dried up.
Put it back in the oven again for another 15 minutes untill done.

This is the end result when the meatloaf is done cooking in the oven. I like to serve it with white rice!

Cathy's Memorable Meatloaf Recipe:

Ingredients

• 2 pounds ground pork or ground meat
• 1 small onion (chopped)
• 1 garlic clove (minced)
• 2 eggs (slightly beaten)
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 1 packet Instant Oatmeal (cooked)
• 2 tbsp mustard of your choice
• 2 tbsp ketchup
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley (chopped)
• To Make GLAZE:
• 1 cup ketchup
• 4 tsp white vinegar
• 4 tsp brown sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a small pan, cook in low heat the minced onions and then add garlic stirring until translucent, 2 minutes. Set aside to cool.
3. Cook the oatmeal like you normally would.
4. Beat eggs in a bowl and add in milk.
5. Add in Worcestershire sauce, mustard and ketchup to the beaten egg mixture.
6. Mix in oatmeal with ground meat and add the egg mixture. Mix together.
7. In a baking dish, form into a loaf. Meat should not be dry or you may add extra egg mixture if it is.
8. Brush glaze over meatloaf.
9. Bake meatloaf 45 minutes then brush more glaze on meatloaf. Then bake another 15 minutes.
10. Let meatloaf rest on counter a few minutes before serving. Enjoy!