"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/25/2012 11:58 AM, Bryan wrote:
>> On Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:52:51 PM UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
>>> Please would posters here be so kind as to share their favourite meat
>>> loaf
>>>
>>> recipes? I have tried a couple and didn't like them much. Reading
>>> here I
>>>
>>> see that it is a favourite for many and I would love to find something
>>>
>>> really good
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --Bryan
>>
> I have a fairly consistent method for meatloaf and it doesn't involve
> dried soup mix. I saute whatever fresh vegetables I have on hand
> ("mustgovian" onion, bell pepper, celery, carrots, garlic.) The binder I
> use isn't bread, dried crumbs or soda crackers. I like oatmeal. YMMV. I
> do add cubed pieces of sharp cheese sometimes. I don't like meat loaf
> topped with tomato sauce. That seems to be a popular US thing. I have
> made it with a little bottled seafood cocktail sauce mixed in.

Somethings to think on. Thanks, Jill.

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