Aftercare Meatloaf
{This is my recipe that I adapted from a relative when I was in my twenties.}
One day after Jolynn and our Loyal Lesbian were done playing, I served them my meatloaf. Jud was all wrapped up in my warm pink robe and had his legs and feet covered by a blanket. He was relaxing on our recliner in the living room eating his meatloaf with dove dark chocolates and milk. So after that we just called it my Aftercare Meatloaf, and he doesn’t pass up a chance to have a good dinner at our house.
Ingredients:
Doubled recipe below, but you can always adjust it to the way you want it.
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups of catsup
- 2 cups of oatmeal – I use Quaker’s Instant Oatmeal and not the longer cooking kind. Otherwise, it doesn’t seem like it cooks the oatmeal enough to me.
- 1 packet or so of Lipton’s Beefy Onion dry soup mix
- 3 lbs of ground beef for the double the recipe {My Kitchen Aid loaf pan is 9 in x 5 in x 2.7 in / holds 6.8 cups. If I use the smaller pan and less meat for half the recipe it would probably be about a pound or so less.}
- Finely diced onion with the amount of your choosing. I would say 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup depending how much you want. You don’t have to use any. It might taste even more delicious if you pan fried your onions ahead of time and then put them in.
Cooking Time:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees ahead of time. Get your large mixing bowl and all your ingredients ready. I normally mix the eggs in my measuring cup, and put that in with the catsup and meat. Mix that all up really well and add your other ingredients. I’ve been using my larger Kitchen Aid loaf pans since they hold more. Take your rubber spatula to plop the meat into your pan and then even it out. The smaller batch of meatloaf I would cook for an hour and it would be ready to be taken out of the oven. The doubled batch needed more than an hour and ten minutes that I set the timer for. I’d say it took ten more minutes after that, but just keep a good eye on it between those ending times and take it out when you think it is good and done.
Serve with your favorite vegetables, potato, and roll with real butter.
I LOVE meatloaf and I think I’ll have to have Mynx make up a batch! Thank you for sharing this recipe! 🙂
-Tom Wolf (Mynx’s Sir)