Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

The song reference, of course is from Meat Loaf – the 1980’s arena rock star. He produced some great music.

We produced some great meatloaf for supper tonight. But it has a story behind it – otherwise I wouldn’t be posting this to my blog. I’m doing my regular thing… very lean beef, an egg, salt, pepper, oatmeal… AUGGGHHH! Only half the oatmeal I need and I’ve already started mixing it! Onion… AUGGGHHH! No onion in the fridge!

Chef mind kicks into gear. Substitute a shallot for the onion. Bread crumbs – that’ll work. AUGGGHHH! No bread crumbs in the pantry! But we do have corn flake crumbs. What the hey? Toss it in, mix, toss in a little more, add another splash of milk, put it in the meatloaf pan and toss it in the oven.

Go to store while it bakes, figuring if it’s a flop tonight, it might be good for breakfast tomorrow given the corn flake crumbs... maybe with a little milk and sugar. (Eewww....)

Mix up Theany’s glaze when I get back home. During the last 10 minutes of baking, make an envelope of instant mashed potatoes and nukyulate some frozen peas.

Let everything rest for 6 minutes and 37 seconds after the meatloaf comes out of the oven, completely degreased (meatloaf pans are a wonderful thing!)

Serve to TLMK. Listen to shouts of joy as I’m loading my own plate, with her telling me this is probably the best meatloaf she’s ever had in her whole entire lifetime. We both had seconds.

And she ate all her veggies, too.

So. Somehow I have to figure out what I did in order to recreate this Most Magnificent Meatloaf (there’s that 3M’s recipe name again) .

Not much left for those incredible leftover cold meatloaf sandwiches, but I’ll get by.

Two out of three ain’t bad, says Meat Loaf.

True… but three out of three is better!