Meat-a-loafer!

So this has been a weekend of culinary delights.. with a mishap or two along the way. We went out to a local indian food/soul food fusion type restaurant (Rajun Cajun), which produces food that is just unbelievably delicious. Their samosa are filled like normal samosa, but the dough is about half an inch thick of delicious fried-ness. They're great folks, and it's a real nice place. I can't believe I've lived here as long as I have and never gone before now.

On another night, I got home very... tired, and decided I would (as is my custom) make french toast stick type things from the leftovers of my quiche which I had sitting around the refrigerator. It usually goes as such:

2 eggs
Whatever half + half is left
cinnamon
vanilla
crusts from the bread
Mix everything but the crusts in bowl, put in crusts, pick out one by one and cook in skillet, consume

This time I got 'creative' and added ginger and soy sauce (French asian fusion?), and then while cooking the first batch of crusts I got bored and dumped the whole bowl in and made a huge mess of oil and eggs and cream and wooooow was it horrible. Terrible. I regretted it very much in the morning.

ANYWAY so tonight I made meatloaf! I briefly debated doing it swedish chef style:

Find loafer
Stuff meat in loafer
???
Profit

But I decided against it on account of worrying swedish people would think I was racist (bork indeed!). Instead I went with another solid solid recipe from the ol' "Cooking with friends" church cookbook:

2 lbs meat (any 2 lbs of meat will do, it is in the book as 2 lbs groud beef but at home we changed it to 1 lb beef, 1 lb turkey so it's a bit leaner. It also tastes better that way)
2 eggs
1 c water
1 package Stovetop stuffing
Ketchup

Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl, add the water, the stuffing mix, and the meat, mix it around with a meat mixer thing (Or, if manly like me, YOUR BARE (BEAR ALSO) HANDS!), shape into loaf and bake at 375 for 1 hour (if clever, put tinfoil inside the pan you use so you don't have to do as many dishes)

It turned out great, and 2 pounds of meat means it'll do me for quite a few dinners and sandwiches. To go with it, I made up some mashed potatoes with garlic and green onion, which I think the fair reader can figure out how to do without a blockquote. One interesting thing I am probably going to do is make super meatloaf sandwiches, which is where you put meatloaf AND mashed potatoes in a sandwich and grill it panini-style (I had it at a restaurant once!). To do this right without a panini grill available, though, I should really find myself a brick (Alton Brown style- you wrap the brick in tinfoil and put it in the oven, then put it on top of a metal rack on top of your panini- all the press without having to buy an expensive one-use piece of equipment!). Time to start loitering around construction sites! Wish me luck.