Welcome to Loaves and Dishes you lovely reader, you! Thank you for visiting me today! Is it rainy where you are? It is here. It has been raining ever since I made pizza! Know what is GREAT on a rainy day? Tasty Easy Meatloaf!
My husband and I married about 3 ½ years ago after a long dating on/off again arrangement. As you can probably guess, I love to cook and I was SO EXCITED to have someone to cook for again. I still have one daughter at home but her tastes have a pretty small range – not enough for an adventurous cook Mama. Don’t believe me? Just look at what she had to say about Chocolate Cake!
Anyway, no matter what I cooked here at home, my husband would say, “You should try Ashley’s meatloaf sometime, it is SO GOOD” or “Ashley’s meatloaf is to die for – I mean it is so good”. Ashley is my husband’s daughter – now my daughter too! So, I asked Ashley for her meatloaf recipe. I did take a few liberties with the recipe – but the original came from her.
Ashley is a lovely young person. I continue to be impressed by her “grab the bull by the horns attitude”. I am especially proud that she has chosen nursing as a career. She wades right into the hardest situations in the ICU and the ER and we are SO PROUD of her.
She makes an awesome meatloaf too. <smile>.
Thank you so much for visiting
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Serving suggestions for Tasty Easy Meatloaf
This meatloaf is wonderful with a crusty bread, Roasted Sweet Potatoes, a green salad and a country dessert such as blackberry pie cobbler.
Now I ask you, Make Dinner, Not War.
From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. ~ John 1:16
- 1 lb Ground Beef
- ½ lb hot sausage
- 1 Cup breadcrumbs
- 1 small onion – diced.
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp cumin
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 8 oz cans tomato sauce - divided
- 3 Tbs Cider vinegar
- 3 Tbs brown sugar – packed
- 2 Tbs good quality whole grain mustard
- ½ cup water
- 2 Tbs Worcestershire
- Mix beef, sausage, bread crumbs, onion, egg, salt, pepper, cumin, garlic powder, ½ cup tomato sauce. Do not over mix or your meatloaf will become chewy. Simply use your fingers and mush it together and only do this until it is just mixed.
- Place in a shallow oven proof pan and form into a loaf. Stir together the remaining sauce, vinegar, sugar, mustard, water and Worcestershire
- Pour the sauce over the meatloaf and bake x 1 hour until cooked through. While cooking, spoon the sauce over the top of the meatloaf about every 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and spoon the sauce over the top a final time. Allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving.
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