I think everybody has a favourite comfort food. What’s yours?
Growing up, mine was always my mom’s meatloaf. Any old meatloaf didn’t do it for me. It was this particular meatloaf. Naturally, I learned how to make it. It isn’t something I make very often, but every once in a while, maybe once a year, I’ll do one up. Last time, I added a twist – I cooked it out back on the bbq, adding a perfect smoky edge to it.
Here’s the way you make it….
Chop an onion and a green pepper, fine.
Add it to equal amounts of ground beef and ground pork.
Add a generous handful of breadcrumbs.
Add an egg.
Toss in a generous amount of dried basil and thyme and then some salt and pepper.
Squish it around in the bowl with your hands until everything is mixed together well.
Form it into one big or two smaller loaves. Mom always did hers in yellow rectangular glass baking pans.
Cover the top of the loaves with strips of bacon, so that the top is totally covered.
Be sure there is room between the sides of the loaves and the sides of the pan.
Now you have to brush the top of the loaves with the secret ingredient. Don’t tell anybody. It’s Heinz Chili Sauce. There is no substitute. I don’t have any other use for Heinz Chili Sauce, but it’s what makes this “Mom’s Meatloaf”.
Bake in the oven (or the bbq!) at about 350F for about an hour (depending on the size of your loaves…smaller ones could take only 45 minutes.
Serve hot for dinner… but be sure to save some for sandwiches next day, on crusty kaiser buns.
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Hmmm… I could only find Heinz barbeque sauce. Reckon that would work if I put some chili flakes in it?
I suggest cutting the bbq sauce with just a little vinegar and adding the chili flakes and it will be good….not quite the same, but good.
Aha… vinegar! I was going to use a bit of dry sherry, but I think you’re right that vinegar will work better. Or make it taste more like the chili sauce.
Weird that there was actually a massive selection of Heinz sauce products at the supermarket – things I had never even noticed before – but no chili sauce.
Stay tuned for photos!
So how did I do?
mister anchovy’s meatloaf
Excellent job Az. I bet it tastes just as good as it looks!
Oh, I should have mentioned that it has to be a homemade sauce (I never liked that packaged stuff). My mom always made her own cheezey sauce when I was a kid, and now I do the same, adding any other ingredients that I think might go.
I have many comfort foods, but my favorite is probably mac & cheese (the vegan variety of course).
I’m definitely going to make this … well, if I can find Heinz Chili Sauce here.
Comfort food for me … grilled cheese sandwiches, mashed potatoes with sweet corn (green giant niblets) and mushroom risotto.
I love risotto!
Vodka!
oh…soz…yeah…food…
Depends. If I’m sick Caz makes me tomato or chicken or vegetable soup. Tastes lovely when you have the flu.
Otherwise, nowt cheers me up like a good curry.