Posted on 08/26/2015 6:33:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
This week: Meatloaf! (Early again; schedule change ;-(
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-JT
Back in the late 70’s, my girlfriend saw that recipe where one mixes a packet of onion soup mix in with the hamburger to flavor it up. Nice idea, but unbeknownst to me, she used the entire packet for TWO hamburgers, bless her heart, she was tryin! The burgers were a tad onion-ey, but we both farted onion for 3 days afterwards. In retrospect, it was hilarious...just not so much at the time. Har!
thank you for the recipe. Took notes will cook next month.
One thing I regret not asking my granmother before she died was her recipes. She was cooked Southern. And I enjoyed all her cooking. Never touched the chitlings tho.
Wish I got her recipe for Butterbread. A southern desert so dang delicious Michelle Obama would ban it!
LOL!
Salt, pepper, egg(s), ketchup, the soaked bread crumbs, the soup, probably would throw in some better than boullion dissolved. For extra special I lay bacon strips over the top and down the sides of the top and rub chili sauce over it.
Then sometimes, got the idea from a guy I used to know, cut cold slices, lay in skillet, pour Golden Mushroom Soup over all, sprinkle with oregano, maybe add sm amt of water for steam, cover until heated through. I never liked the Golden Mushroom soup for anything but this.
Also like sandwiches, of course or heat up again.
Thanks for the great story. I regret I never got my mother’s potato soup recipe. As far as Liptons Onion soup mix, I love French Onion soup in the winter and make my own with a little helping of the Liptons as a liquid base, cut up Onions, and Mozzarella cheese on top. A warm feeling for a cold day.
yummm, I love meatloaf! And just found a bunch of ground beef on sale.
So i’m looking forward to everyone’s ideas.
My favorites are an Italian meatloaf patted out thin and layered with ham slices and mozzarella, then rolled up. And one stuffed with spinach, onions, and cheese.
When I want something different for meatloaf I use sour cream, onions, garlic, mushrooms, parsley and dill for a little stroganoffy twist.
Another twist on meatloaf is to use a can of tomato paste and some pesto.
Good stuff!
I made MeatLoaf last night ...one of my favorites...and really blew it...forgot the bread crumbs!
pesto - great idea!
I’ve been making and freezing bunches of pesto before my basil plants get too cold.
heh ...
What brand? ;'}
Meatloaf here is a big blob of ground beef, a can of tomatoes, a handful of saltines, onions and whatever leftover veggies in the fridge. Of course, lots of ketchup on top.
The only thing I use onion soup mix in is chicken. Mix the envelope of soup mix in a can of frozen orange juice concentrate (the concentrate, not reconstituted). Pour the mixture over chicken pieces and bake until done. Serve the drippings as a gravy by draining off the fat.
BTW, my twist on meatloaf, meatballs, etc is to mix 4 parts lean ground beef to 1 part Italian sausage. I like the extra spices and the pork makes it moist.
Your lucky.
I roasted up some ducks with a nice rice dressing and the girl I was dating wanted to make the gravy.
She made a nice batch of what would best be described as the paste you used in kindergarten.
If you thought it was thick on your plate just wait until it got in your mouth.
The things we are willing to do to keep from hurting their feelings.
Ow, and yep. Sometimes we gotta suffer through the bad to enjoy the good. If yer real lucky, they’re teachable...
I still have the recipe that my mother used for her meatloaf. That recipe was found on the can of Carnation Evaporated Milk.
All I know is you need:
1 Can of Carnation Evaporated Milk
Chopped Celery
Chopped Onions
Bread Crumbs or you can use Rice
Mustard
Ketchup
and Eggs
I don’t recall over my head the measurements but I now would make it without looking at the recipe.
I’ve never heard of ‘Butterbread’, unless it came under a different name.
Perhaps someone will see, and post a recipe.
-JT
I think that works both ways......
Fortunately, my husband is a great cook, and eminently ‘teachable’ in other areas...though he forgets to pick his socks up off the floor, forgets to put away his tools when he’s done with them, etc. :-)
-JT
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