My Kind'a Meatloaf

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Dear Readers: When it comes to meatloaf you might not get excited all at once, but trust me... as Andy Taylor, High Sheriff of Mayberry would say:

This loaf is some kinda gooood!

Give it a shot. You won't be sorry!
The Editor

My Kinda Meatloaf

Ingredients: ( * = game changing ingredients - do not omit )

The loaf:
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 lb. good quality ground sausage
2 1/2 C dry bread crumbs
  better still, use 1 3/8 C Quaker oatmeal (not instant)
1 t seasoned salt
1/4 t coarse ground black pepper
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 small chopped onion
1 stalk diced celery
1 small diced green pepper
..red, green, yellow, mix 'em up... whatever
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Click here  to see how to make dry bread crumbs
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4-5 slices of oven-dried white bread yields apx. 1 C of crumbs
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The sauce:
1 15 oz can tomato sauce
...If all you have is a 15 1/2 oz can, it's not a disaster
1 T Worcestershire sauce
   I always have to look up the spelling :-/
2 T brown sugar
2 T white vinegar
1/4 C sugar
* 2 T crushed pineapple
* 1 T maraschino cherry juice
* 1 T soy sauce
1 t cornstarch
1 quick shake red pepper flakes
2 t prepared mustard

Preparation:

1) Combine sauce ingredients in a small saucepan
     then bring to a boil.
2) Mix loaf ingredients together in a large bowl.
....Use your hands... it won't kill you
3) Add 3/4 of the sauce. Mix well.
4) Form the loaf in a 9"x5"x3" MINIMUM greased
     (or sprayed) pan or pyrex dish.
....See? You had to use your hands anyway.
5) Bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.
6) Remove pan from oven. Pour remaining sauce over the loaf.
You DID use a hotpad, right? Durn - do I have to tell you EVERY- thing? OK - go to the bath, get the tube of Nupercainal that you should find there, and put some on. Yes, I know it says it's for hem- orrhoids, but trust me. If you'll put Nupercainal on a burn RIGHT AWAY, you'll never feel the pain. .Really!! .If you don't have any Nupercainal get some. It's sold over-the-counter at any drug store.
7) Return the newly sauced loaf to the oven. Bake 15 more minutes.

As far as The Editor is concerned, this meat loaf is not only better than good, it's the very best he ever sank a tooth into.

Homemade mashed potatoes and snap beans with salt pork/strickalean go well with My Kind'a Meatloaf.

Enjoy - but not to the point where you don't have enough for sandwiches later on in the evenin' time.

Leftover meatloaf sandwiches - Yee Hah!!
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