Like I said yesterday, today’s January Blog a Day challenge topic is meatloaf.
See, meatloaf.
Well, I guess it’s really Meat Loaf.
Okay, okay, technically it’s I would do anything for love . . . but I won’t do that.
Which is sung by Meat Loaf. But since I run a “food blog” here (like so many other things, I use that term loosely) I chose to make this post about actual meatloaf.
So I cooked up some meatloaf for dinner Monday night. On Tuesday I topped spaghetti squash with roasted garlic spaghetti sauce, crumbled a slice of meatloaf on top and sprinkled the whole thing with cheese. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it every dang day till the end of the month, I am totally rocking (pun intended) this blog challenge.
This recipe comes from “The Food You Crave” by Ellie Krieger
Turkey Meatloaf with Sweet Potato
Ingredients:
1 medium sweet potato, peeled and grated
¾ cup old fashioned rolled oats
½ cup milk
1 medium onion
2 pounds ground turkey breast
1 roasted red pepper or ½ jar roasted red pepper, diced
2 large eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon dried sage
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup ketchup
3 tablespoons BBQ sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
8 ounce can tomato sauce
The Haps:
Peel and grate one medium sweet potato. Microwave for 4 minutes till slightly soft.
Combine the oats and milk in a small bowl and allow to sit while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Slice ¼ of the onion and reserve for garnish, finely dice the remaining ¾ of the onion.
In a small bowl combine the tomato sauce, BBQ sauce and sugar. Set aside.
In a large bowl add the ground turkey, oat mixture, diced roasted red pepper, grated sweet potato, diced onion, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder, sage, salt and ketchup. Mix, but do not over-mix. Transfer to a 9×13 inch rectangular baking dish sprayed with cooking spray and shape into a loaf. A meatloaf. Hence the name. Your loaf should be approximately 2 inches tall and 5-6 inches wide. Spread tomato sauce mixture over the top and garnish with reserved sliced onions.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour or until a thermometer reads 160 degrees F in the thickest part. Allow the loaf to rest before slicing.
Go ahead and sing some Meat Loaf while eating some meatloaf. You know I want you to.
To catch up on my January Blog a Day posts:
Tomorrow is Things that Rhyme. Awesomesauce.
- Joanna
Question of the Day: What did you have for dinner last night? What are you having for dinner tonight? Is this song currently stuck in your head?
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Last night – veggie stuffed peppers (stuffing consisted of quinoa, black beans, corn, Tastefully Simple seasonings) topped with cheese
Tonight – meatball hoagies and steamed broccoli and cauliflower
Thanks for putting the song in my head. Grrr. However, whenever I see Meat Loaf, I don’t see him as the singer but as the actor in Fight Club.
Ummmm…yum. We haven’t had stuffed peppers in forever. It’s also been forever since I’ve watched Fight Club!
I love Fight Club!! One of my top 5.
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I feel this is an appropriate time to share that my go-to karaoke song is “paradise by the dashboard lights” (and “wannabe”. oh, and “enter sandman” — depending on how drunk I am).
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I had one of those “doh” moments after I read your comment and mistook “karaoke”, thinking it was “karate”, and was about to ask you why you were doing karate while drunk. I will understand if you no longer want to be friends.
Wait, drunk karate?
Your place or mine?
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Do you ever put a hardboiled egg in your meatloaf? That’s how we always had it.
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No, never even heard of that! Just one?
As many as you want. Basically, as you form the meatloaf, you can put hardboiled eggs (peeled) inside and surround them with the meatloaf. When you slice it, you can get egg slices! The egg doesn’t do super well re-heated, so usually I try to just use enough egg(s) for that night, and the leftovers will be egg-less.
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Last night- spaghetti. Tonight Aly’s creamy chicken pasta with mushroom. Hope I don’t jack it. I hate the word “loaf”…its the main reason I never make meatloaf even though I think its delicious.
Cinnamon @ eatpraytri recently posted….Mesa de Vida and Jamaican chicken (recipe)
I kinda like the word loaf . . . though it’s much more fun when it isn’t related to food. I wouldn’t mind just loafing around right now, but it kinda sounds like toddler nap time might be officially over. Yikes. Oh yeah, it’s over.
I can’t wait to hear how it goes.
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