Saturday I started sourdough bread. I doubled the sourdough recipe and instead of making two regular size loaves, I made three smaller loaves.
As soon as I had three bread pans in the oven, I remembered I was fixing meat loaf for dinner and needed to get that in the oven. Thank goodness a fourth pan fit.
The meatloaf was really good. All I did was chop some onions, garlic and bell pepper, sauteed it in butter, mixed it in with two pounds of ground beef, added seasoning, two eggs, a bit of milk and bread crumbs. Then I put half the meat in the loaf pan, covered it in Swiss cheese, added the rest of the meat. Baked it til it was done, added more Swiss cheese on top and heated til the cheese melted.
While the meatloaf was cooking, I sliced some mushrooms and sauteed those, then sprinkled flour over them, cooked til the flour had absorbed the liquid from the mushrooms. Then I added a bit of Better than Bouillon – beef flavored, a bit of water, stirred til it was a thick gravy, added just a bit of cream and seasonings, then served the gravy over the meatloaf.
Of course, there was leftover meatloaf to go into the freezer for another meal.
vivoaks says
One more thing I love but hubby wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole…mushrooms. If I put mushrooms anywhere near a meatloaf he’d probably say it contaminated the meatloaf and wouldn’t eat that either! The extent of a topping for meatloaf at my house is usually ketchup…. yawn….
Sue Edberg says
This sounds exactly like my hubby. I love mushrooms, but my husband won’t go near them. Sometimes he is so boring!
Teri says
That sounds delish! Meatloaf sandwiches the next day with your homemade bread! Yum Yum!
Rebecca says
I read this to my husband, and he asked “Can you make some (gravy) for me?” Haha (We’re having yakisoba tonight.)
Unlike the commenters above, I’M the one who doesn’t care for mushrooms here. Except some chanterelles we had at a restaurant in January. Seems so long ago now.
Nelle Coursey says
YUM YU!!
Penny Holliday says
Your meatloaf & mushroom gravy sounds delicious! With your homemade bread are you planning on meatloaf sandwiches also this week? When we married my husband insisted he did not like mushrooms yet I did very much! The first time I made Salisbury steak with the traditional mushroom gravy rather than avoid the mushrooms/pick them out he ate them. He then decided mushrooms might be good after all! When I proudly told my MIL she said “Who would ever like/eat mushrooms?” She was such an influence of the foods her family ate & limited them to such a small list of veggies, meat & fish that I’m glad that my husband would try something different now & then!