Recipe

Meatloaf

Meatloaf
  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Meatloaf
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    mf37's Notes: When my wife was pregnant with our first child in 2003 she got cravings for meatloaf. The only meatloaf I knew was my mothers, which is tooped with processed cheese slices and tinned tomatoes...

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Serves 6+

  1. Preheat oven to 375F

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  2. Combine milk and breadcrumbs, stir and let stand for 5 minutes.

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  3. Finely chop the carrots, celery, onion and garlic (or blitz with a food processor)

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  4. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the ingredients (except the bacon) and mix well - it helps to use your hands.

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  5. Shape the mixture into a loaf (I transfer the mix to a loaf pan and then invert onto a roasting rack). Slice each piece of bacon in half and layer the six strips width-wise across the top of the meat loaf.

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  6. Bake for 1 hour or until a meat thermometer shows an internal temperature of 160F.

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