On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:13:28 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/25/2012 11:58 AM, Bryan wrote:
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> > On Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:52:51 PM UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
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> >> Please would posters here be so kind as to share their favourite meat loaf
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> >> recipes? I have tried a couple and didn't like them much. Reading here I
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> >> see that it is a favourite for many and I would love to find something
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> >> really good
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> > Meat loaf is on the lowest tier of American foods. It is a slop trough where *creative* folks dump in a little of this, a little of that, packets of dried soup mix, ketchup, and any number of horrors. Read on, and you'll see.
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> > --Bryan
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> I have a fairly consistent method for meatloaf and it doesn't involve
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> dried soup mix. I saute whatever fresh vegetables I have on hand
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> ("mustgovian" onion, bell pepper, celery, carrots, garlic.) The binder
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> I use isn't bread, dried crumbs or soda crackers. I like oatmeal. YMMV.
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> I do add cubed pieces of sharp cheese sometimes. I don't like meat
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> loaf topped with tomato sauce. That seems to be a popular US thing. I
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> have made it with a little bottled seafood cocktail sauce mixed in.
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"Bottled seafood cocktail sauce mixed in" falls into the "horrors" category.
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> Jill

--Bryan