I always cook the same thing. If you have read my blog for a bit or looked at the recipe page you can see what I cook. I actually USE my blog for my recipes. I use it for
Easy Peasy Chicken Enchiladas With Sour Cream Sauce
A New Recipe To Love – Red Beans and Rice
Although I don’t make some of those that often. What I do make all the time is just ground turkey and whatever leafy green (besides lettuce) that we have in the refrigerator. If I have any ricotta in the fridge I might stir that in. Or if I have any cream cheese. That makes it “different.” I would make that at least once a week, if it didn’t drive my hubby batty. But he gets tired of it. I don’t. I haven’t made meatloaf in a long time. But I just made it this past weekend. It used to be that it wouldn’t stay together for nothing. But then I started using less liquid in it. Ya see, I am not a fan of tomato paste or ketchup so I don’t always use it. I usually make it with ground turkey. But this last time I decided to use beef. And while I was in the aisle about to buy some tomato paste I remembered that I had some marinara sauce in the fridge and I thought, “Hey, I can use that.” Here is the basic recipe I use.
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Meatloaf
2 tablespoons of butter, plus enough to grease your loaf pan
1/4 of a large onion
1 lb ground meat (beef or turkey)
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup bread crumbs*
1 large egg
3 tablespoons ketchup**
2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce
3/4 teaspoon salt
a couple of turns of pepper
soy sauce
cooking cherry
1 green bell pepper
Mince the onion. Heat the butter in a pan then saute the onion. Grease the loaf pan with butter. Heat the oven to 350° F. Put the meat in a large bowl. Finely chop the garlic or use a garlic press. Mix the garlic in with the meat. Then add the bread crumbs and mix well. Add the egg, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and salt. Incorporate it all into the meat. Sprinkle some pepper into the mixture. Mix well. Then use a measuring cup and make a combination of soy sauce and cooking cherry – totalling a 1/2 cup. Pour it into the meat mixture and stir. Mix it in with the meat. Dice the bell pepper then mix it in with the meat. Add the onions. Mix it all together.
Put the mixture into your loaf pan. Spreading it out until it fills the whole pan and is level. Then bake it for about 50 minutes.
Slice and serve.
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It might not stay together . . . mine rarely does. If you like your meatloaf to stay in the loaf shape and you want to be able to slice it, use less liquid.
*in this last batch I used Panko bread crumbs and I really liked that.
**sometimes I use ketchup, sometimes I use tomato sauce. I use whatever I have. I have made it before without any ketchup at all. It works.
I like it with beef, but it could be that I am just used to it with turkey because I think I like it better with turkey.
What is YOUR favorite meatloaf recipe? One with two kinds of meat? Maybe one with sausage?
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