G-ma2005 (otherwise known as Grandma Jan) came by a few weeks ago and taught me the ancient secrets of meatloaf. I very slightly modified it into this ridiculously simple recipe:
Mix equal volumes of ground beef and crushed saltine crackers, plus a significant amount of chopped onions, plenty of salt and pepper, and enough eggs to make it stick together (roughly 1/2 lb meat, one egg, one onion, and half a sleeve
of crackers). Form this into a loaf an put it into a 375 F (190 C) oven.
After about 10 min, pull out the loaf and cover it with a mixture of ketchup, brown sugar, and worchestershire, mixed to your liking (comparable quantities of each does well, although G-ma2005 prefers a larger fraction of ketchup). Continue baking for another 30 min or so. It is hard to over-cook it.
Fuzzmama notes that this is not meat as garnish. It is transcendant the next day in a sandwich.
