Meatloaf

Meatloaf recipe my teacher gave us:

It was yummy but you can vary your seasonings! There are 4 main important things to a meatloaf or other foods like it, meat, fat, binder, and seasonings!

-Get 1 lb of Beef (80/20 fat percentage)
-now the binder you can vary, but we did 1 egg, and 2 pieces of white bread soaked in heavy cream (not at lot, about 2 tablespoons per piece of bread in a bowl, just soak them all in there) and like 1/3 cup of oatmeal flakes
-1 cup ketchup
-1 tablespoon brown sugar
-Bacon (we used 3 pieces)
-1 shallot
-1/4 onion
-2 cloves of garlic
-worcestershire sauce
-soy sauce
-salt
-pepper
-tarragon (dried)
-sage (powder)
-cayenne pepper (powder)

Preheat oven to 375

Ok you know the basics im sure, so you take the meat, put in a bowl, throw in the egg, then crumble that wet bread in there, the oatmeal, about 1/4 cup of the worcestershire (sp?), 1/4 cup of that soy sauce, 1/2 of the cup of ketchup, about 1 teaspoon of sea salt, 1 tablespoon black pepper, 1 tablespoon of the terragon leaves, 1 teaspoon of the sage, and cayenne really to taste and mix alllllll that up

In a sautee pan youll add diced garlic, shallot and onion, cook in some oil, once sauteed, add that to the meat mix .. mix it all up really good!

Put in a meatloaf pan, or if dont have one just put on a baking sheet covered in foil, form it in the shape of a rectangle essentially, put the strips of bacon over it where its covered, then put in oven.

Cook 20 minutes, then take out ... in a little bowl, mix 1/2 cup (rest) of ketchup, and brown sugar, then pour that over the meatloaf, and put back in the oven for about 15 minutes (or until it looks done to you) Ours took 40 minutes in all but all ovens are different!

Bam .. yummy meatloaf! :)