Ok, that’s not true at all. I freaking love meatloaf. You know what I do hate though? That it’s called meatloaf. Who’s with me? For something so delicious, it sure does have an awful name. Meatloaf. Meatloaf. Meatloaf. I think I’ll start a campaign to change the name of meatloaf. What could we call it? Meat log? Gross! Beef log? Even worse? How about beef Remington? Let’s really posh it up here. Let’s give meatloaf the name it deserves! Because it is tasty. But nobody comes running to the table when you say “the meatloaf is ready”.  Wouldn’t it sound much better if we said “the beef Remington is ready”? I like it. Any suggestions are welcome!

You probably guessed it. I cooked on a Friday. Again. But I didn’t cook Thursday. We went out to eat with some friends. 4 adults and 4 children. 6 and under. Whew! That’ll fill up your wine glass/pint glass/highball glass in a hurry (mine was a wine glass, as it normally is – Pinot Noir if you must know – also, it was the first wine I’ve had since I ruined Valentines Day and I kept it down and it tasted delicious. Score!!). It was fun though. A little old lady (who had been hitting the high ball glass all day  me thinks) got seated next to us, looked at us, immediately flagged down a waitress and demanded to be moved somewhere “without all this; without all these -ugh- kids”. I wonder if that lady knows she too was a kid one day (long, long, long ago) and that kids are actually what make everything great in this world – their innocence, their humor, their delight, just everything about kids is pretty freaking awe-some! And at one point, we were all kids. And our kids weren’t even being disruptive. They occasionally get a little louder than they possibly should have, but the restaurant was already loud so who gives a shit! It’s not like we were dining at a fancy five star joint. Whatever. I hope she enjoyed her meal in the absolutely no where quiet part of the restaurant. And I really hope she wasn’t driving. And I really really hope she doesn’t have any grandchildren herself coz yikes! Ok, that was mean, but really, sometimes, the truth hurts.

Back to the point – I cooked last night. If you guessed beef Remington (I’m loving the name change already) then you are absolutely correct and pretty clever, too I might add. Now normally, I cheat when it comes to beef Remington. I usually use the McCormick’s packet and call it good but last night I actually made my own beef Remington (just FYI, I just typed meatloaf and had to go back and fix it – whew! Change is hard but so worth it!!!). And y’all, let me tell you, it was damn good. I’m so excited about it. The packet is so chuck-a-buck full of sodium that I’m quite happy to have an actual recipe that I love!! I did forget to take a picture, yet again, but I’m sure none of you are shocked. Now, I found the recipe online – and I’ll give it to you exactly like I found it – but I actually tweaked it some for my family’s taste and I’ll share my tweaks with you too. It was good stuff. Everybody cleared their plate much to the dog’s dismay!

Ingredients:

2 lbs lean ground beef (I used 1 1/2 pounds)

1 cup soft bread crumbs

1 beaten egg

1/2 cup ketchup

1 tsp minced garlic

2 tsp salt (I only used 1 tsp – 2 seemed like way too much)

dash of pepper (I used about 1 tsp – we like pepper)

1 medium finely chopped onion (I used a small shallot coz it’s all mama had!)

1 tbsp. horseradish (I did about 2 tsp, again, coz it’s all mama had)

The recipe didn’t call for this but I also added a couple shakes of Worcestershire because, quite frankly, ground beef and Worcestershire go together even better than peas and carrots. Take that Jenny and Forrest!!!

Directions:

Thoroughly mix all ingredients and shape in loaf (or a Remington!!) pan. It suggested covering with ketchup but I don’t love ketchup all that much so I’ve always used 1 can of tomato soup on my meatloaf (and it’s damn good, if you like tomato soup!). Bake 1 hour at 350. I baked mine for about an hour and 20 minutes and it came out as close to perfect as beef Remington can get.

I served this with mashed potatoes (duh! – 5 peeled and cooked yellow potatoes, mixed (on low) with whole milk, butter, pepper and seasoned salt), roasted broccoli and biscuits. Heaven. And yesterday was such a nasty day here, it was the perfect rainy, cold weather meal. If you try nothing else that I post up here y’all, you NEED to try this one!!! Easy, delicious and worth every calorie!!

Tonight Mr. Wonderful is grilling porterhouse steaks. We’ll be serving those up with roasted asparagus and grilled potatoes. Yum! Yum! Tis the weekend of beef! There could be worse things in the world!!! xoxo