Nothing funny about feldspar

I don’t make meatloaf too often, because I have uncomfortable memories of the hamburger/tomato sauce mixture of my youth. Not that it was bad, just, well…. Anyway, I decided to make meatloaf today because it’s cold and gray outside. It turned out OK, so I’m putting the recipe here so I can find it again!

Put this in a big bowl:

• 1 lb ground lamb
• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 cups breadcrumbs (yay food processor!)
• 1 cup minced onion (yay food processor! — but after the breadcrumbs, please)
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic (I used to keep cloves on hand, but they always got dried out. So now I just use the jarred stuff.)
• 2 eggs

Add spices:

• generous amount of salt
• ditto ground black pepper
• a couple of tablespoons dried parsley
• a teaspoon or less of basil
• ditto oregano
• about a 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon and allspice

Mix together and dump into the bowl:

• 1/4 cup lemon juice (one largish, slightly dried out lemon ;))
• 1/2 cup whole milk yogurt

Now mush it with your hands. Mush, mush, mush. Put into an oiled loaf pan and bake at 350°F until done, at least 45 minutes, probably longer. Depending on the liquidity of your ingredients (and if you didn’t get enough breadcrumbs in, which I never do), you may have to dump out the juice (after 45 minutes or so) so the meat can brown a little. You can save the juice to make gravy.

Very tasty, quite mild, and no tomatoes in sight!

(Of course, Plagioclase and his mother dumped ketchup all over theirs — philistines!)

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[edit] By the way, “mush” rhymes with “push”