The beauty of meat loaf is that it can be comfort food or luscious entertaining;come to the table warm with vegetables, gravy, and mashed potatoes, or cold, with salad, bread and pickles.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375°F.
- Using your hands, squeeze together all the ingredients. If the mix seems too wet, add up to 1 cup more of the bread crumbs.
- Form a loaf with the ground beef into a large bread pan, top with ketchup if desired. Place in oven and bake uncovered for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Cover with warm tomato sauce before slicing and serving.
Nutrition502 estimated calories per serving
Notes
Serve with steamed green beans, creamed corn, fluffy potato mash and tomato sauce on the side for a perfect New England dinner. Don't forget the cornbread.
Most meatloaf recipes are recycled Italian meatball recipes, that is why a little tomato sauce can make it into the mix and they are usually topped with tomato sauce –to help form a crust- or the sauce is served on the side. As one travels to the midwest, the tomato sauce becomes ketchup.
Source
North American cuisine.
Meatloaf, vegetables and potatoes is a very typical East Coast dinner.
Food in USA, New England
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Boston baked beans recipes go back to early colonial times. This is a real tradition.
See the recipe for meatloaf with a brown sugar and ketchup glaze from Kansas . Meatloaf recipes are not exclusive to Massachusetts. Recipes from the Midwest tend to use ketchup rather than tomato sauce, that is their distinctive touch.