Thread: Meatloaf?? Mine are flops!

Try this...
I've been working this up for my daughter, who at 17 is wanting to make meatloaf... It is outta my head, and I haven't made it since I started jotting it down; but it should be close. I sneak carrots into it (and into spaghetti sauce) from an old habit when the kids were young and rebelled at carrots. LOL!

Meatloaf

INGREDIENTS
1 cup onion, chopped fine
1 celery, chopped fine, or a pinch of celery seed (ALT: cumin or sage, depending in your side-dishes.)
1 Tbsp minced garlic, jar in the fridge
1 carrot, chopped fine
2Tbsp beef bullion
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
2 teaspoon salt (use 1 1/2 teaspoons if using breakfast sausage)
1 1/2 tsp pepper
3 tsp Worcestershire sauce
3/4 cup ketchup, or better yet -- cocktail sauce!!
1 1/2 pounds of ground chuck, lean beef, or beef/veal mix
3/4 pound of spicy ground pork sausage or breakfast sausage
1 cup fresh bread crumbs or Panko
2 large eggs, beaten slightly

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a big, heavy skillet cook the onion, celery, carrot, and garlic, in butter, over medium heat, stirring, for about 5 minutes. Cover the skillet and stir occassionally until the carrots are tender, about 5 more minutes. Stir in salt and pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and 1/3 a cup of ketchup. Cook for 1 more minute.
3. In a large bowl, combine the meats, eggs, vegetables, bread crumbs -- form into a loaf and put onto a rectangular cookie cooling rack, or broiler pan, so the grease can run off. Cover the loaf with remaining ketchup.
4. Bake the meatloaf in the oven for 1 hour.

Originally Posted by TraciInTexas

Try this...
I've been working this up for my daughter, who at 17 is wanting to make meatloaf... It is outta my head, and I haven't made it since I started jotting it down; but it should be close. I sneak carrots into it (and into spaghetti sauce) from an old habit when the kids were young and rebelled at carrots. LOL!

Meatloaf

INGREDIENTS
1 cup onion, chopped fine
1 celery, chopped fine, or a pinch of celery seed
1 Tbsp minced garlic, jar in the fridge
1 carrot, chopped fine
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
2 teaspoon salt (use 1 1/2 teaspoons if using breakfast sausage)
1 1/2 tsp pepper
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
2/3 cup ketchup, or better yet -- cocktail sauce!!
1 1/2 pounds of ground chuck, lean beef, or beef/veal mix
3/4 pound of spicy ground pork sausage or breakfast sausage
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
2 large eggs, beaten slightly

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a big, heavy skillet cook the onion, celery, carrot, and garlic, in butter, over medium heat, stirring, for about 5 minutes. Cover the skillet and stir occassionally until the carrots are tender, about 5 more minutes. Stir in salt and pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and 1/3 a cup of ketchup. Cook for 1 more minute.
3. In a large bowl, combine the meats, eggs, vegetables, bread crumbs -- form into a loaf and put onto a rectangular cookie cooling rack, or broiler pan, so the grease can run off. Cover the loaf with remaining ketchup.
4. Bake the meatloaf in the oven for 1 hour.

Never thought of putting it on a broiler pan, will have to try that next time for sure!

Thank you so much for the advice. I know what you mean!!

Made it, finally, last night and have updated the recipe.

I had forgotten bullion, and the ketchup was too small. Also I use cumin or sage instead of celery seed sometimes... Last night was sage!

It was luscious. Yummmmm!