"meat loaf" news and stories

My friend David and I always joke that it was meat loaf that brought us together (one of those random conversations when a mutual love for something plain and simple and completely uncool forms a bond). Over the course of many years we've found a million more reasons to be friends, but we still share a meal of meat loaf a few times a year, not because we're nostalgic but because we love it. And we have plenty of company.

Tyler Florence feels the same way about loaf, and shares his dad's recipe, which rates high on the chunk factor with a red-pepper-and-tomato relish. The key to most great meat loafs, like chef Florence's, is a mixture of ground beef and pork (and sometimes veal). Share your meat loaf secrets with us in the Comments section.


More Meat Loaf Recipes from KitchenDaily.

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In this weekly series, home cook Bruce Watson works his way through a decades-old family cookbook, adapting the best recipes exclusively for Slashfood.

Going through my old family cookbook, I came across my Aunt Renie's recipe for blue cheese meatloaf. Like many of Renie's recipes, this one has a long pedigree and an old school gourmet touch. However, the original had a heavy touch of sage, which made the loaf fairly bland.

Experimenting with various sauces in my kitchen, I found that the meatloaf tasted amazing when served with a hearty dollop of barbecue sauce. My modified version, featured below, integrates the barbecue sauce into the meatloaf, along with a huge amount of blue cheese. This, combined with a shorter cooking time, yields a finished product that narrows the distance between meatloaf and paté. With that in mind, you might consider serving this dish with sliced pickles, mustard or other paté accompaniments!

Get the recipe for barbecue blue cheese meatloaf after the jump!

Having worked in a bakery setting since I was 18, I've seen my share of groom's cakes. Actually, I had never heard of the groom's cake until I started working in a bakery. Most of them are chocolate cake with a golf or foot ball theme. My best friend's groom went with a caramel cake, which was very delicious. This one really takes the cake, though.

The Black Widow Bakery came up with the best groom's cake I've ever seen. There's not even any fru-fru cake to ruin the manliness of it. It's a meat cake. The layers are made up of meat loaf, with a special glaze filling, and mashed potato icing. The decorations were created with that same glaze, which is made from Worcestershire sauce , brown sugar, and ketchup.

All the details are here. I'm pretty amused by this cake. I actually think it's a really neat idea. Have you seen any really great groom's cakes recently?

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