Way Too Much Bother Meatloaf

Total Time: 1 hr 55 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 1/2 lbs ground round
• 1 tablespoon beef base (i use the paste but lo sodium granulated bullion is ok)
• 1 medium yellow onion, med chopped
• 1 cup panko breadcrumbs (japanese bread crumbs, or any unflavored bread crumbs)
• 2 tablespoons dried celery flakes, plus
• 1/2 tablespoon celery seeds (zap in the spice grinder) or 1 stalk really finely chopped celery
• 1 tablespoon old fashoned blackstrap molasses (the smelly sulphered stuff)
• 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon roasted garlic or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 6 -7 medium sweet pickles, julianned
• 1 red bell pepper, roasted,seeded and skinned julianned
• salt and pepper, to taste (remembering both the beef base and bullion have some salt allready)

Recipe

• 1 now the fun and bother begins.
• 2 smear the beef base or dampined bullion on top of that round before sliceing for the first grind.
• 3 grind the meat once through the large die on the grinder.
• 4 add the onion, celery, ahd panko to the chopped meat and.
• 5 run it through the grinder again, fine die.
• 6 add the molassas, worestershire, egg, and garlic to the chopped meat.
• 7 run it through the grinder again still the fine die.
• 8 add and work in the roasted pepper and sweet pickle.
• 9 since i had my old kitchen center out for the meatgrinder, i used the dough hooks for this.
• 10 i know,, lazy woolfe.
• 11 pat firmly into a loaf pan, insert the thermometer.
• 12 bake in a 325 oven untill the internal temp is around 130°f.
• 13 turn out onto a rack/in pan& reinsert the thermometer.
• 14 continue bakeing untill you have 140- 145f internal.
• 15 let cool before trying to slice thinly.
• 16 makes one heckofa sammich, a tad dry so nextime a bit more fat in the mince.
• 17 another*skunkwoolfe* prodiction,, enjoy.