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Mother’s
Heart-Shaped Meatloaf For Valentine’s Day!
Moosh together about 2lbs of ground beef with about
1lb sausage (the stuff that comes in a plastic tubes that you cook
for breakfast).
About’s are fine; don’t fuss about exact
measures.
Womp together a couple of slices of bread with about a
½ cup of some liquid (milk, tomato juice, ketchup, barbeque sauce),
a few shakes of Worchestershire sauce, ½ tsp of dry mustard if you
have it, some salt & pepper.
(You can use bread crumbs instead of slices of bread;
you can also use uncooked oatmeal – not the kind in the envelope
with brown sugar and raisins, however.)
If you have the time, energy, and ingredients, chop up
an onion and half a green pepper and throw in with everything
else.
Pack this in a heart-shaped pan or shape (by hand)
into a heart in a plain old baking pan (or any old pan with
sides). Actually,
shaping by hand works fine.
Be sure the pan (whatever kind you use) has sides. A lot of fat is baked out of
this.
Toss in the oven at 350° for an hour – hour & a
half. Pour off fat if
you think about it.
The trick will be to transfer the finished product to
a serving plate. It’s a
challenge each year.
Don’t have any hints.
Good luck; you’re on your own!
Make
Sure: Early in the
morning, before people are completely awake, extract a promise that
they’ll be home for dinner.
Over the years they’ll try to wiggle out of Valentines Day
dinner so you have to get clever. You’ll want to be certain
that enough folk show up for dinner so you’re not stuck with pounds
of the above.
Note: My mom made this meatloaf
for my brother and I every year on Valentines Day! We smothered it in
ketchup and had pink milk, pink mashed potatoes and sometimes pink
muffins (red food coloring is great on Valentines Day!) When I moved away to
college, one of her first presents to me was a heart-shaped pan and
this recipe. I made my
first heart-shaped meatloaf for my skeptical college roommates and
have continued until this day with my children who are now 9 and 10
years old. Any holiday
is a great excuse to have fun and make new traditions for your
family. Enjoy! Stacey
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