I had to google a picture. The ONE time I forget to break out my camera and take a shot, is the most staple of staple meals around our place. We call this one Nana’s Meatloaf. The recipe, I believe, came from the Once A Month Cooking cookbook I have previously mentioned. There’s a difference though. In that cookbook, this recipe as actually made up of flaked ham I do believe. We’ve made it with ham (which I typically don’t eat), we’ve made it with ground pork, but for best flavour/texture/results…I recommend good ol’ fashioned lean ground Saskatchewan or Alberta beef (call me a homer, that’s fine).
This recipe winds up with plenty of sauce to spoon over rice (which works great as a side with this one), we will also typically pair it with some corn or green peas (or both if we’re down to the dregs of the bags in the freezer!)
Nana’s Meatloaf
Loaf
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs or crunch up some crackers
Sauce
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tb mustard
- 1 tb white vinegar
- 2 tsp water
Mix up all the loaf ingredients – shape it into a loaf pan and the cover it with tinfoil. Bake at 325 degrees F for 30 minutes. Take out of the over, take off the foil and drain off the liquids that have formed. Once drained, pour the sauce over the loaf. Put back in the oven for another 30 minutes, this time uncovered. Enjoy!
It’s a pretty simple recipe. Only problem I ran into making this myself was that we’re still trying to sort out the oven in our new place. It seems to take a bit longer to bake things than did our previous stove. I’ve been getting good use from my digital cooking thermometer. As I discovered…when using one of those, make sure you’re measuring the temperature in the middle of the loaf (I pushed it in too far so it was on the outer edge of the loaf near the pan where it is hotter than in the middle. Ooops – lesson learned). I’m debating turning our oven a bit hotter, or just leaving things in for another 5 minutes or so beyond the suggested cooking time. We’ll get it sussed.
This one is 5 stars across the board, everybody including our picky eater loves it.
As for budget? If you get it on sale, your pound of beef is $3. An egg and crackers and the brown sugar are the next most pricy elements. I’d guess that between everything else in the loaf itself, combined with the rice and corn on the side you’re looking at…$7 all in for this one. It usually gives us 6 decent sized slices (or 2 ‘Daddy sized slices and 4 medium sized ones for everybody else…) so it feeds all 5 of us, and there’s usually 1 slice for leftovers. Boom!
-g
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