"meatloaf" news and stories

Reimagining leftovers can be tough. But sometimes they open a slew of options. Take meatloaf, for example. You can crumble it up into a spaghetti sauce, use it as meatballs, morph it into sloppy joes, crumble it on pizza, or make a rich and tasty meatloaf melt, like above.

This is jut some toast, a nice slice of meatloaf, a layer of freshly sauteed mushrooms and onions, and some cheese. Once compiled, it was thrown into the toaster until the cheese was nicely melted -- which was enough time for the meatloaf to warm. Old staples don't always have to be predictable!

Have you ever sauced up your leftover meatloaf?

From The Best of Taste: The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations (1957), The SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee

I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. There will be various gelatins. All will be semi-solid and of debatable degrees of edibility.

Please feel free to shimmy and shake your way to the comments section to share your very own magical, masticable molds of yore.

Previously - Consomme Tongue Treat

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. The boxes can range from austere lacquered trays to multi-tiered Hello Kitty confections of neon pink plastic. The meals themselves are anything from rice and leftovers to elaborate themed affairs of Pikachu-shaped dumplings with sesame seed eyes and carved radish trees. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Today's bento is a rather quizzical-looking owl, rendered in turkey meatloaf with carrot sauce details, on a background of parsley rice. Our feathered friend is accompanied by a green curry dumpling and several sesame fish cakes in similar tones of rust and green, giving the tableau a rather 70s rec room vibe. Let's hear it for our artist, Los Dragónnes.

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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?

[via Coldmud]

I've seen meatloaf baked in bread pans and meatloaf baked in free form shapes (mock lobster, anyone?). But I've never seen anyone think to bake up a meatloaf in a tube pan until I was scanning through my RSS reader last night. But if anyone was going to think of a bundt meatloaf, I'm not surprised that it came from the minds of the chefs/bloggers behind the site Ideas in Food. They are always thinking creatively about food and manage to produce a number of interesting (and I'm sure tasty) dishes. I think that this is what I'd like to eat for dinner tonight.

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