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"Jacquie" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
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>>> In article >,
>>> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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>>>> "atec77" > wrote in message
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>>>> > On 24/07/2010 6:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>> >>> "Julie > wrote in message
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>>>> >>>> At this temp., the meatloaf was done at about 20 minutes. I had
>>>> >>>> difficulty getting it out of the oven. Why? There was an
>>>> >>>> alarming
>>>> >>>> amount of liquid that had seeped out from the veggies. I took the
>>>> >>>> loaves
>>>> >>>> up and put them on plates and they immediately sucked up the
>>>> >>>> liquid as
>>>> >>>> they cooled.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I cook my meatloaf on a rack in a pan. There is always some kind of
>>>> >>> liquid
>>>> >>> comes out of a meatloaf - usually fat, even with low fat meat. I
>>>> >>> cover
>>>> >>> the
>>>> >>> pan loosely with foil (so it doesn't touch the meat. Take the foil
>>>> >>> off
>>>> >>> at
>>>> >>> the last and cook a few minutes more . Then I add some thick BBQ
>>>> >>> sauce
>>>> >>> over the top, you lose some but its still tasty.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I think this stuff would have dripped through a rack.
>>>> > Not if it is in a pan
>>>> >
>>>> > It was pretty soft
>>>> >> until baked.
>>>>
>>>> I do mine on cookie sheets.
>>>
>>> I've always done my meatloaf in a loaf pan, as my mother did. I take a
>>> long piece of aluminum foil and line the pan with it, cross-ways, with
>>> lots hanging over the outside. When the meatloaf's done, you can pick
>>> it up by the pieces of foil that are hanging over the edges, lift it up
>>> and out onto a platter.
>>>
>>> When I was growing up, the juice and fat that came out of the meatloaf
>>> went over boiled potatoes. *sigh*

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>> I do mini ones for two reasons. They cook faster. And I can't add an
>> egg as a binder so they tend not to hold together.
>>
>> One of my favorite things to make as a kid was meatloaf ala mode. I made
>> the meatloaf in a round cake pan, cut it in wedges and then topped each
>> wedge with a scoop of mashed potatoes.
>>
>>

> One of my daughters specialties when she was a young teen was meatloaf
> made in muffin tins...after muffin loaves were done she would turn the tin
> upside down and drop the meatloaves onto a baking sheet..then would frost
> them with mashed potatoes...put them in the oven, while she heated cheddar
> cheese soup and added peas to it then would plated the meatloaf and pour
> the cheddar cheese pea sauce over it. She got it from a kids
> cookbook....her Dad loved it


Mmmmmmm, what's not to love. :-)

Cheri