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I like my meat loafs with a yummy salad and mashed potato.
Mmmmm
And this a really delicious meatloaf;
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1/2 cup crushed buttery round crackers
3/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons steak sauce
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Stir the ground beef, crushed crackers, Cheddar cheese, and onion soup mix in a large bowl until well combined. Whisk the eggs, ketchup, and steak sauce in a separate bowl until smooth. Mix the eggs into the meat until evenly combined, if the mixture seems too dry, add a little water. Press into a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
Bake in preheated oven until the meatloaf reaches 160 degrees F (71 degrees C) and is no longer pink in the center, 45 to 60 minutes.serves 6.
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Saute your onions and celery in a little butter or EVOO to soften them; chop finely. Let cool a bit, then add ot meatloaf mixture. Traditionally, meatloaf is topped w/ ketchup (just spread across the top) and bake.
Traditional side dishes would be mashed potatoes, maybe green beans or whole kernel corn.
Here’s a couple good meatloaf recipes you can look at, or follow to a T, whatever you like:
Mama’s Cheesy Meatloaf
1 lb. ground chuck
1 egg, beaten
2 tbls. worcestershire sauce
1 cup ketchup
1/2 tsp. onion salt
3/4 stack Town House Crackers, crushed
2 cups grated cheese (I like sharp)
Mix all ingredients, except cheese. Press meat out onto plastic wrap about 1/2 inch thick. Sprinkle cheese over meat evenly. Roll up the meatloaf, jelly roll style. Tuck in the ends, and secure with LOTS of toothpicks. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 min.
Sauce:
½cup ketchup
¼ cup mustard
¼ cup brown sugar
Combine, and heat thoroughly. About 15 min. or 20 min. before meatloaf is done, pour on some of the sauce, and finish baking. Keep the rest to pour onto the meatloaf slices at the table.
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Bacon-Wrapped Meat Loaf with Brown Sugar – Ketchup Glaze
If you like, you can omit the bacon topping from the loaf. In this case, brush on half the glaze before baking and the other half during the last fifteen minutes of baking. Serves 6 to 8
Brown Sugar – Ketchup Glaze
1/2 cup ketchup or chili sauce
4 Tbsp.s brown sugar
4 Tbsp.s cider vinegar or white vinegar
Meat Loaf
2 tsp. vegetable oil
1 medium onion , chopped medium
2 medium cloves of garlic , minced
2 large eggs
½ tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. table salt
½ tsp. ground black pepper
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. hot pepper sauce
½ cup whole milk or plain yogurt
1 pound ground chuck
½ pound ground pork
½ pound ground veal
2/3 cup Saltine crackers , crushed (about 16), or quick oatmeal, or 1 1/3 cups fresh bread crumbs
1/3 cup fresh parsley leaf , minced
8-12 slices bacon
1. For the glaze: Mix all ingredients in small saucepan; set aside.
2. For the meat loaf: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Heat oil in medium skillet. Add onion and garlic; sauté until softened, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool while preparing remaining ingredients.
3. Mix eggs with thyme, salt, pepper, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, pepper sauce, and milk or yogurt. Add egg mixture to meat in large bowl along with crackers, parsley, and cooked onion and garlic; mix with fork until evenly blended and meat mixture does not stick to bowl. (If mixture sticks, add additional milk or yogurt, a couple Tbsp.s at a time until mix no longer sticks.)
4. Turn meat mixture onto work surface. With wet hands, pat mixture into approximately 9-by-5-inch loaf shape. Place on foil-lined (for easy cleanup) shallow baking pan. Brush with half the glaze, then arrange bacon slices, crosswise, over loaf, overlapping slightly and tucking only bacon tip ends under loaf .
5. Bake loaf until bacon is crisp and loaf registers 160 degrees, about 1 hour. Cool at least 20 minutes. Simmer remaining glaze over medium heat until thickened slightly. Slice meat loaf and serve with extra glaze passed separately.
–Cooks Illustrated, Sept.1996

For an american, garlic mashed potatoes are required with meatloaf. Just peel a few cloves of garlic and put them into the water with the cut potatoes and mash ‘em up all together!! For a super moist meatloaf soak bread in milk and squeeze excess milk out before adding to ground beef. Garlic salt, fresh ground black pepper, Parsley. If you wanna get crazy, slip a layer of mozzarella cheese in the middle. And mushroom gravy. Brocolli is always a favorite side or a tossed green salad.

I don’t have an exact recipe for you because I never measure anything, but I use:
Hamburger (approx. 2 lbs.)
chopped onion (one medium)
chopped green pepper (one small)
salt & pepper
an egg (slightly beaten)
ketchup
crushed saltine crackers
Just mix all the ingredients together except the crackers, then gradually add crushed crackers until it forms a nice loaf. Put it in a loaf pan (spray with cooking spray first) & bake @ 350 degrees for approx. 45 minutes or until you cut into the center & it looks done.
I always serve meat loaf with mashed potatoes & gravy, corn, some type of bread, and a salad.
Now you’ve made me hungry! Good luck!

Put garlic in it, a little Worcestershire sauce, fresh herbs.
If you are serving meatloaf to an American and you don’t serve mashed potatoes, green beans and mushroom sauce with it….

Wrap it in uncooked bacon before you put it in the pan. The bacon keeps it moist and it gets crispy. YUM. I would use garlic mashed (four cloves of roasted garlic thrown in) and corn.
Good Luck

tell him to make it himself