Meatloaf is one of those recipes that is either loved or reviled. For ourselves, we've played with the recipe and it is still under advisement. But, we're still playing with it.
For today, we made a bacon wrapped stuffed meatloaf. Five (5) pounds of 80/20 chuck, we added onions, bell peppers, bread crumbs, egg and milk. Salt and pepper, o course, Then we laid parchment paper on a cookie sheet, laid macon on the paper, then covered the sheet in a layer of our meat concoction. Then , covered it in cheese. You could use mushrooms, sausage, or other yummies. We only used cheese. Then, roll the whole thing into a loaf
It went in the smoker an hour ago I'm running the smoker a little hot, at about 300F and it will be ready in a couple of hours, in time for lunch. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go out to the barn and boil some potatoes for Ouida potatoes.
If you like it but it seems dry, consider adding in some ground pork with the beef. Our family recipe actually uses ground lamb as well (2 parts beef, one part pork, one part lamb) but thats for oven cooked and not stuffed; not sure how the longer cooking time would impact that mixture.
ReplyDeleteI add pork sausage to mine, but that sounds GOOD! :-) And BACON!!!
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