Time For A Meatloaf!

Heck yeah!!!!!!!

Mmmmm looks great

If you are not a professional chef, you should be. Your posts are not fair. They make me so hungry.

This thread never fails to make me happy!!

I love a good meat loaf. I've never tried making one,(even though I was the cook on my shift team for 22 years at the fire station). If your recipe is something you don't care to divulge,(I understand), you have been inspiring.
Thanks , JW

Yeah, I'm not that extreme. Lol...... I'm a slow sipper kid of guy.
Doing some cooking right now and having a few cold ones to pass the time.

J. W. Harris said:

If your recipe is something you don't care to divulge,(I understand), you have been inspiring.
Thanks , JW

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Not a problem. Give me some time to post it. I'll get it up here for you in the next day.

J. W. Harris​

I'm not really a huge fan of basically raw or barely cooked veggies in a meatloaf. I find they help to aloow for the meatloaf fall apart. Here's what I do......

Usually I just use diced onions, celery, bell peppers and garlic in my meatloaf. I like to cooked them down to soft but but not falling apart then add them after cooling a bit to the ground meat. Sometimes the meat is just ground beef and sometimes I add a lean ground pork. This isn't an exact recipe as I don't measure anything.
I'll add some seasoned bread crumbs, a couple of eggs and whatever seasonings I happen to grab out of the cabinet. More often than not, black pepper, granulated garlic, granulated onion Cajun seasoning and a splash of Worscestershire sauce. I like to mix everything somewhat early in the day and put it into a plastic wrap lined loaf pan and refrigerate a few hours. This helps it to keep it's loaf shape better. And don't pack the meat into the pan too tight as this will result in a dense meatloaf. when ready to bake flip the loaf onto the baking pan and remove the plastic wrap. I like to do mine on the grill. As you can see in the second picture I use a aluminum half pan lid that I punch hole in on the sides of the meatloaf to allow the excess dripping to drain to keep it from swimming in a puddle of fat. AS it get close to being done I like to top with a sauce(meatloaf sauce)you can buy or a lite bbq sauce.

Enjoy!

Thanks, JW