The Say Anything Thread

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

When can I come over?

Marilyn, seriously, I LOVE MEATLOAF!!! I am always begging my Mom to make some - with peas and carrots and mashed potatoes!!

Can you share your recipe?

Mom's only made it twice, after I started getting on her nerves with it. First time I had meatloaf was about five months ago at a Tupperparty. The sales lady made meatloaf and I loved it. So I had to talk Mom into making one, but she is not really good at it, I must admit. She is confused about how to make gravy for it (from scratch). So she cooks the meatloaf without a baking form in the oven and adds carrots, celeric, parsley and leek. After that she tries to make a gravy out of the veggies and the meat juice, but always fails. Plus my family is from Spain, so she adds rosemary, thyme and oregano and it just tastes like a giant albondiga.

We need to learn more about meatloaf!!

[Amby 490]

my uncle makes this awesome gravy or more like sauce for his meatloaf. he got it from some cookbook but I think it's something like 1 green bell pepper diced small, 1 medium onion diced small, 1c ketchup, 1/3c brown sugar...you cook it on super low the whole time the meatloaf is in the oven so it reduces. it's soooooooo yummy

[Marilyn. 340]

I don't really put gravy on my meatloaf ...

i put this mixture of ketchup, brown sugar and mustard powder on top... mmm yummy....

[Marilyn. 340]

here is my recipe...

Meat Loaf

1 to 1-1/2 pounds ground beef

1/3 quick oats or 1/4 cup bread crumbs

1/4 cup chopped onions

1 clove garlic, minced (optional)

1/4 cup finely chopped green bell pepper (optional)

1 or 2 eggs

1 tablespoon dried parsley

1/4 teaspoon oregano (optional)

1/2 teaspoon thyme (optional)

1.2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/3 cup ketchup

Mix all meat loaf ingredients together and put in a loaf pan. Mix together 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard* and 3 tablespoons ketchup. Pour over loaf. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes to an hour depending on the thickness of the loaf....

*if you don't have dry mustard you can use about a teaspoon of yellow mustard....

[SnowyTater 0]

What are you all doing! You're making meatloaf all fancy and #######??? AAAHHHH.

My mama's recipe: (My mom's an amazing cook but doesn't use like hardly any spices or ingredients ever, it's weird xD)

Um...let's see...kay.

Like a pound of burger

bunch of bread crumbs (white bread or whatever's left over, buns or whatnot), probably about three slices and just crumble up. Don't have to dry out beforehand or any of that nonsense.

Ketchup. I don't know. 1/3rd of a cup?

1 egg

coarse chopped onion

Probably would be good with green pepper too, but that's getting fancy with my mom

Get your hands in there and mix and mesh all that ####### up. Shape it in your little meatloaf pan and off it goes, probably about 350 to 375, like Marilyn's, for however long it takes. You gotta take it out and drain it a couple times, bunch of grease will come up and sit on the top.

About 10-15 minutes before you take it out spray some ketchup all over the top so it gets cooked and kind of caramelized and crispy I guess.

Comes out coarse and crisp on the outside, textured on the inside, delicious pure flavors and no sogginess or masking of what it is - poor man's dinner of meat and onion and bread. I always put more ketchup on mine.

And we don't measure stuff in my house they're always just like 'and then some of this' so god knows. The cornbread is especially always variable. But aaahhhh mother you can cook

Who's not had fried squash?

[Amby 490]

I love fried squash but I'm not into the whole part of it being fried

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

Ahhhh ketchup is the key, I see. Thanks Marylin!

Well, Mom won't like the ketchup, that's for sure. She doesn't believe in ketchup I pour it over everything and she freaks everytime. She makes wonderful Spanish omlettes with potato (tortilla Española) and I HAVE to have ketchup with it. She gets really offended LOL Awww bless.

Love Snowy Taters recipe - Get your hands in there and mix and mesh all that ####### up

Can you please write your own cook book? I would so buy that!

Squash? No, never had it. Isn't that something in between a pumpkin and a courgette?

Mhhhh meatloaf *drool*. I would really fancy some for breakfast now. Argh, but I failed on my diet last night and had 33 points instead of the 21 I was supposed to have... guilt guilt guilt LOL

[pedroh 21]

to make it even more offensive.. add hot sauce to the tortilla española besides the ketchup.. or add jalapeños to the omelette..

[Nessa 23]

Good Morning everyone. Yum coffee!

Nessa you have amazingly beautiful eyes if I may say so (well one of them to quote your hubby )...I too thought it was a model's eye, the make-up is perfect too!

thanks. you're so nice

[Marilyn. 340]

Ahhhh ketchup is the key, I see. Thanks Marylin!

Well, Mom won't like the ketchup, that's for sure. She doesn't believe in ketchup I pour it over everything and she freaks everytime. She makes wonderful Spanish omlettes with potato (tortilla Española) and I HAVE to have ketchup with it. She gets really offended LOL Awww bless.

Love Snowy Taters recipe - Get your hands in there and mix and mesh all that ####### up

Can you please write your own cook book? I would so buy that!

Squash? No, never had it. Isn't that something in between a pumpkin and a courgette?

Mhhhh meatloaf *drool*. I would really fancy some for breakfast now. Argh, but I failed on my diet last night and had 33 points instead of the 21 I was supposed to have... guilt guilt guilt LOL

just make it and don't tell her its ketchup ....lol

[Nizzy 1]

Good Morning everyone. Yum coffee!

Nessa you have amazingly beautiful eyes if I may say so (well one of them to quote your hubby )...I too thought it was a model's eye, the make-up is perfect too!

thanks. you're so nice

wow I thought that was a snapshot of a model's eye also. Very beautiful!

[SnowyTater 0]

Yeh, I have to sneak stuff into people's food I'm cooking for all the time My mom *thinks* that she hates garlic, my SO thinks he hates certain vegetables, and my dad thinks he hates anything semi-healthy with no transfat or antioxidants etc etc.

You gots to have squash with your meatloaf! Or okay you don't have to but geez it's awfully good Mash is great too...anything is great I imagine, it's meatloaf.

But yeh there's a bunch of different kind of squashes and I recommend squash, it's tasty and I think it's got a bunch of like...nutrient stuff in it that's otherwise harder to get? Or maybe I'm making that up. I'm sure this isn't good for you though:

So, if you want southern fried squash, you gotta know what kind to get first. Here squash is squash and all the other squashes are just decorations at Halloween, but you want 'yellow squash' we call it here. The smaller, skinnier ones are much more flavorful than the great big ones shown in this pic.

squash

All we do is slice and fry it It doesn't sound amazing but it is. Slice it about 1/6th inches I guess shortways, so it's little circles.

Cover all the bits in half cornmeal, half flour mixtures with salt and pepper in the mix too if you want, or I reckon you can salt and pepper it later while it's cooking, doesn't matter.

Have your pan going heating up the oil..use whatever...olive oil might be a bit weird but whatever. Just medium heat's fine.

Cook'em! Not fully submerged in oil or anything but where you have to flip them. You'll know when they're done because they get golden and crispy and omg so delicious, so much better than potatoes or french fries or anything like that

It used to make me and my sister SO mad because my dad had a garden just FULL of squash, yet somehow with all of that we never had enough of it at dinnertime. Probably because we ate it all while watching mama cook though

Also use the same process for frying okra which I don't like nearly as much in my family because we don't do breaded okra like you get in restaurants or in freezer bags, so ours gets kind of small and very oily and I complain and everyone else is like 'that's the best part!' but no xD BUT okra mixed with cubed up taters and pitched in the mixture and fried is very good and I guess the mix draws the oil away from the okra where it doesn't shrivel so much, with that one.

Also if you've never had squash I recommend trying to track down butternut squash soup because it's delicious I think it's Pacific Oceans organic or something that I like so much here...it's a carton rather than a can. Campbell's does one too but it's got potatoes in it - it's still good but not as good.

[Marilyn. 340]

we are possibly getting a big screen TV... hubby's brother got one from a job he was doing (he installs closets) .. and they already have one...

I know it is probably one of those older ones but I don't care... our TV now sucks.. the colour keeps going out and I have to bang it to get it back again very annoying...

[Marilyn. 340]

darn neighbor's dog has not stopping yipping for the last 10 to 15 minutes...

[no name 1]

Mhhhh meatloaf *drool*. I would really fancy some for breakfast now. Argh, but I failed on my diet last night and had 33 points instead of the 21 I was supposed to have... guilt guilt guilt LOL

I never use ketchup in my meatloaf.

There's tons of different recipes out there - my personal fave is a turkey + spinach + sundried tomatoes one.