On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 2:04:06 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/25/2012 2:10 PM, Bryan wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:13:28 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
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> >> 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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> >>> 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
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> Don't knock it until you've tried it. I find salsas to fall into the
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> "horrors" category, too, but lots of people love it.
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Putting salsas into meatloaf is awful too.
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> Jill

--Bryan