posted on October 31, 2000 06:22:47 PM new
.....and don't let it drag in the dirt either.
Actually I think I may have very well stumbled upon the absolute best recipe for meatloaf. Whilst at the grocery store the other day I was purchasing the ingredients for my usual recipe for meatloaf and I decided to buy some stove-top stuffing to have along with it. So latter at home while I was kneading the 4 lbs. of hamburger, 2 lbs. of mild sausage and one diced baseball sized onion together I decided what the heck i'll just throw in that box of stove-top along with an egg and a 1/4 cup of milk to hold it all together. After baking it for 3 hours at a medium heat setting I sat down to dinner with the absulutest, lipsmackinest clean your plate by licking it meatloaf dinner I ever had. Oh, I allmost forgot to mention the cold left over meatloaf sandwiches are to die for.
I reccomend trying this recipe that I stumbled upon, you won't regret it.
posted on October 31, 2000 07:25:21 PM new
"absulutest, lipsmackinest" -----Then I must have it! My pot roast is dynamite but my meatloaf really stinks. (But my dogs will eat it) Is it just regular stove top stuffing or something new?
posted on November 1, 2000 01:14:14 AM new
There is no "best" recipe for meatloaf. Nothing can make it palatable--as I have found to my cost both at home, in the homes of others and at restaurants over the years.
I like ground meat. I like hamburgers. I do not know what strange & awful transformation it undergoes when made into a meatloaf, but the results are at best bad and at worst horrendous. If one is fortunate, when visiting someone & forced to eat meatloaf, there will be gravy, sauce or strong condiments to pour over it so you can't taste *it* while quickly chewing and swallowing.
The person who invented meatloaf is guilty of a crime against humanity. And if there is any justice in the world, someone will invent a working time machine, go back in time, and visit a plague of boils on that person.
Gosh, I hate meatloaf. (Though I do enjoy Meatloaf, the singer)
posted on November 1, 2000 05:54:55 AM new
LOL @ Bunnicula - So I guess you're trying to say meatloaf isn't one of your favorites, huh? I feel that way about liver and onions...as a youngster had to eat that once a week and I become sick just thinking about it. YUK!!! (So can identify with how you feel about meatloaf).
Yellowstone - We LOVE meatloaf at our house and I'm going to try the recipe you've shared. Thanks.... I've fixed it a hundred different ways (exaggerating just a little ) and love them all.
posted on November 1, 2000 07:10:17 AM newLindaK: I love liver (though not with onions). Like cooked so that it is a bit crispy around the edges. Have since I was a little kid. But I did have a bad experience with it once. Are you old enough to remember when Thrifty's had little restaurants attached? They used to have weekly specials... Well, one week they had liver as the special. I must have been low on iron or something--suddenly I craved liver. Went to Thrifty's every night that week & had liver for supper. Did you know that iron leeches the water from your system? I didn't, until that week. Do you know (or guess) what happens when the water is leeched from your system? It wasn't pretty, I can tell you. Since that time I have eaten liver in *moderation*...
posted on November 1, 2000 08:13:58 AM newBunnicula - You asked, "Did you know that iron leeches the water from your system? I didn't, until that week." I didn't know that either.
"Do you know (or guess) what happens when the water is leeched from your system?" You become dehydrated? Your body may have needed an intravenous feeding? What happened to you?
Am I old enough to remember??? hehe I'm older than dirt (almost 52), and that does affect how much I remember.
On the Thrifty Store food counters...I remember the ones at the local Woolworths stores. Could always stop and get a good hamburger and malt while shopping with my mother. My husband thinks he remembers the same type of soda fountain at Thrifty's.
posted on November 1, 2000 02:41:33 PM new
OK, Yellowstone...fess up. What size box of Stove Top did you use...what flavor????? I'm ready to try it...my DH is campaigning now....
posted on November 1, 2000 05:51:50 PM new
I can't remember the exact size in ounces that it was but it was the 5 or 6 inch round one that stood about 12 inches tall and it was stove-top for chicken. It didn't have a flavor packet as the spices were allready mixed in but I would definately reccomend using the flavor packet if you buy the stove-top that has a packet as this is where all the lipsmackinest flavor comes from. I suppose one could use any flavor, for pork, chicken or other.
posted on November 1, 2000 05:56:19 PM new
Thank you! I'm going to try it... Years ago, I did a pork chop recipe that had stuffing on the top, covered with some kind of soup mix. Might not like it now, but we loved it then. Today, it would have to be home made gravy...not soup....
posted on November 1, 2000 06:58:11 PM newLindaK:Bunnicula - You asked, "Did you know that iron leeches the water from your system? I didn't, until that week." I didn't know that either.
Heed my warning--don't ever OD on iron, you'll regret it.
"Do you know (or guess) what happens when the water is leeched from your system?"You become dehydrated? Your body may have needed an intravenous feeding? What happened to you?
DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU ARE FAINT OF HEART...Not to be too blunt, but in such a situation, you get *the* worst case of constipation you will ever be likely to have. I'm not kidding--a week went by and nothing seemed to "spell relief"! I swelled up like a puffer fish, felt like I was going to explode. And in the end, pitch black is the color of the day. And painful... END OF EXPLICIT DESCRIPTION
Am I old enough to remember??? hehe I'm older than dirt (almost 52), and that does affect how much I remember.
Hey, watch it! *I'm* 45. 52 ain't all that old in times where folks routinely live into their hundreds!!!
On the Thrifty Store food counters...I remember the ones at the local Woolworths stores. Could always stop and get a good hamburger and malt while shopping with my mother. My husband thinks he remembers the same type of soda fountain at Thrifty's.
Woolworth's lunch counters had the best frankfurters around, served on toasted buttered rolls rather than regular buns. Yum! Thrifty's served a wonderful apple cobbler with custard sauce. And you could always get a mean Suicide there, too.
posted on November 1, 2000 07:05:58 PM new
Mmmmmmm, does anyone remember a drink called a Lemon Blend? My great aunt used to take me to a Drug Store with a small lunch counter. We rarely got food, but we did get these drinks called Lemon Blends. They weren't like Lemonaid, no pulp at all. They were bright yellow and wonderful!
I feel that way about liver and onions...as a youngster had to eat that once a week and I become sick just thinking about it. YUK!!! (So can identify with how you feel about meatloaf).
