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Wasn't Meatloaf the singer for Meatloaf?

I could be wrong, but two out of three aint bad. lol

:o))

Y'know, I wondered afterward whether meatloaf wasn't part of the national cuisine over there. ;)

Mine: half ground beef ("mince"), half ground pork, well mushed up; a crumbled slice of bread, a bunch of celery and onion finely chopped, an egg, and whatever seasoning takes my fancy: horseradish, garlic of course, oregano, pepper. Sometimes I do it with spinach and cheese in. Oh, and you form it into a "loaf" and bake it in a loaf pan. How does one feed men w/o meatloaf??

Who am I talking to? Nobody home. Well, I shouldn't say that, I think a bunch of people are still home, just feeling feeling sorry for myself not going anywhere and having to work all weekend ... ;)

Sounds very tasty Janey.

At 2.35 am I am wondering what I have done to disturb my sleep patterns. Went to bed early because I was tired. Stupid idea. Anyway here is another meatloaf recipe.

1½ lb minced steak, cup soft breadcrumbs, salt pepper chopped medium onion, 1 beaten egg, 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce, 2 tablespoons tomato sauce, small can 6 oz evaporated milk 1 dessertspoon dry mustard.

Glaze ½ teaspoon dry mustard, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, quarter cup tomato sauce.

Combine glaze ingredients and set aside.

Mix together all remaining ingredients. Mixture will be rather moist. Press into greased 8 x 4 in loaf pan, then turn upside down on to aluminium foil lined oven tray, leaving tin still over loaf.

Bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Remove from oven, remove loaf tin. Brush meatloaf well with glaze.

Do not replace loaf tin. Return to oven cook further 50 to 60 minutes.

Serve hot with vegetables or cold with salads, good for sandwiches.

Looked at this thread last night when JC started it. Saw the mention of meat loaf and thought.....................

Not another 'discussion' about weights and measures!

Can't go wrong with cauliflower cheese - bye

Feed 'em sausages Janey.......the great British Banger....

....often wondered about this meatloaf N. Americans always feed their families......sounds OK to me, bit of a change with mince from cottage pie or spagbol..... might give it a whirl.....

Just spotted your recipe Aunty Sherlock, now I have managed to get a set of cups from Robert Dyas I won't have to try and translate cups to ounces etc.....

Notice there were no weights and measures in my post. :P

I use about a pound of beef and a pound of pork, make hamburgers for two for dinner with as much as that takes, then tart up the rest into meatloaf, since a loaf's worth is what is left, and cook it at the same time in the oven. Meatloaf is not made with recipes!

I meant to mention mustard and worcestershire as possible ingredients, AuntieS. I don't hold with the tomatoey part myself (unless I have spare fresh or tinned tomatoes around to throw into the mix), or glazes, bleah. I actually whip up a small batch of gravy out of half a tin of beef consommé and some sliced mushrooms, myself. Good on the mashed potatoes that are the classic accompaniment.

So in that it's about the NA equivalent of bangers and mash. ;)

No.1 and I both hate sausages, except for big spicy Octoberfest kind eaten on buns with mustard and onion, or whatever weird * he puts on his. Everybody has their own taste for what goes on hamburgers and hot dogs, and I know I can never understand what other people do to theirs!

And AuntyS, we do not line things with tin foil. (The Yanks say "aluminum foil" and I suppose Canadians in any generation after me do too, but I hold with the old way.)

Tin foil is one of the most environmentally unfriendly substances on the face of the earth. Yes, it can be recycled with tin cans if that service is available - but not after you've cooked meatloaf on it.


http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/reuse-recycle-your-aluminum-foil.html

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If you happen to use aluminum foil in your kitchen, consider giving those shiny crinkles a good scrub with some soap and water, so you can draw out a second use out of them. Or recycle them with your soda cans after you've rinsed out the baked-on nosh.

Not only is producing virgin aluminum highly resource intensive, but mining bauxite to create aluminum is also extremely grueling on the environment. ...

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But really, why not just bake in baking things and then wash them?

Thought of Janey when I looked through my new slow cooker recipe book.

The ingredients are measured in a mixture of cups, spoons, grams and ounces.

Probably means Janey would be able to cope with at least 80% of each of the recipes.

Hey I don't write the recipes I just quote them. The book was published in 1970 so it was probably before the tree huggers decided that alfoil was not to be endured!!

I do not use the stuff except when i cook my Christmas pudding. I cover the top of my stove with foil to keep it clean.

With todays modern baking trays I would expect one could dispense with the foil bit. Don't make much difference to me and I don't believe it will add or detract from the taste of the dish.

And as to the glaze. I think it is necessary because the meatloaf is called Savoury-Glazed Meatloaf. Without the glaze it would just be called "Meatloaf".

"I cover the top of my stove with foil to keep it clean."

Now there's an idea! Maybe I can assign No.1 to just cover the kitchen ...

No.2, siiiigh, had a boy cat who decided, early in No.2's email courtship of me, to pee on his (No.2's) new couch. No.2 spent a day scrubbing the cushions and then let them dry on the dining table before replacing them on the couch. He then decided, for reasons that remained rather obscure to me, to cover the couch cushions in tin foil. I mean, yes, it would protect them from cat pee, but it would make for rather weird couch sitting. Maybe it was a training exercise. In any event, it didn't work. As soon as the couch was left naked, he returned to find it peed on.

Not just a man who keeps cats, but a man who covers his couch in tin foil to protect it from his peeing cat (and also plays the best finger-picked blues around) ... every middle aged woman's dream, no?

Har har, "savour glazed meatloaf" indeed.

If I give you a recipe for "beets in fish sauce", will you try that one too?

Oh strewth!! Typo suitably edited. Savoury glazed meatloaf. Teach me to try typing at three in the morning.

It wasn't as creative as "bear drinking woman", that mental picture kept me entertained for quite a while.

Try as I may I am unable to envisage beets in fish sauce as a dish of culinary excitement.

Yeah, I also told Rita yesterday that I finished university in 1871. Genealogy makes the brain mush.

I wasn't making fun of your typo! I just meant: just because somebody makes a recipe out of it don't mean you gotta do it. ;)

Bear drinking woman -- are you familiar with Margaret Laurence's novel Bear? (Canada's most eminent and prolific authors -- including, of course, the author of the books featuring my namesake -- have generally been women, and a majority of them are named Margaret I think.)

Oh, well, I blew that. It was Marian Engel.

http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000585

"Lou is a lonely, middle-aged archivist who ekes out a molelike existence in the city, alienated from the natural world. Her summer journey to a wooded island in northern Ontario on a historical research assignment becomes a spiritual awakening; after her gradual communion with primitive forces in the wilderness, she is profoundly transformed, reborn as a fully integrated person, ready to start a new life in the city. "

Yeah. She also falls in love with a bear. As Robert Service said ...
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1841.html
... There are strange things done in the midnight sun ...

Cremation of Sam McGee and bear romancing. Emily Murphy, re the books.

Is this to say you are of the opinion that although something is possible it may not be an action which one should contemplate?

Not certain about the majority of Margarets.

Bought a new Genealogy book yesterday Tracing Your Family History on Line - for Dummies. Don't that just say it all??

I actually returned the first version I bought. It was too American. This one is written for Australia. Which probably goes to show how appropriate the title.

"Is this to say you are of the opinion that although something is possible it may not be an action which one should contemplate?"

Well ... witness beets in fish sauce, and falling in love with bears ...

Could you not write "Tracing Your Family History on Line - for Dummies" by now?

............... Do you not sometimes feel as if you are? ;)

Been reading MM and me dig up Warwicks in Montreal and Leeds at all? We're a solo act so far, but we're having fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkWj6VhSoBM&feature=related

Do you think a short interlude for a poem is in order. May I recommend this one.


So sad!! Fair brings a tear to the eye and a soggyness to the undergarments.

AH! Les Barker, a man of talent!!
I have the Cd Guidecats for the blind, my version of that clip,is by Terry Wogan


damp knickers indeed!!


Bob

Right I'm off to give another half armful of blood in the name of science. back soon!

He was on the ABC this afternoon. Heard the poem and thought it was worth sharing.

Hope science finds your blood worthy of collecting!!