Thursday, January 2, 2014

Meatloaf and Mashed Potato Kinda Night

I don't cook meatloaf and mashed potatoes very often.  I eat toooo much when I do.  Yummmmm, mashed potatoes.  The one food I could live on.  Besides cheeseburgers.

Meatloaf ingredients. Onion and ground chuck in the bowl.
I don't use a lot of different ingredients.  Kinda like my cornbread.
Momma never used a lot.  I guess it's how she grew up?  I'd say, more
than likely there weren't a lot of ingredients to use.

All mixed up and in the pan!

Add some good ole ketchup to the top!

Time for the potatoes

This is mom's knife.  Not sure how old it is.  It's older than I and 
I'm....over 40.  This knife has almost had it.  Time to learn to use another.  
And when I mean learn to use I really mean learn to use.  I've never
been able to peel potatoes well without this knife.


Mashed potato ingredients

Well, what I make aren't really mashed potatoes in my book.  This is
what mashed potatoes are made with.  I use a mixer now.  So make
whipped potatoes in reality.  I never knew you could make mashed potatoes
with a mixer until I met Chris.  And never started making them with a mixer until
about 3 years or so ago.  When mom's mashed potato masher broke.  
The one above just doesn't quite cut it.  So, I went to the mixer.  


The key to good mashed potatoes with no lumps?  Mixer or mashed by hand?
Mash the potatoes well before ever adding any of the cold stuff.  
Works almost every time.

Never ate gravy on our potatoes growing up.  So I never really learned to 
make good gravy.  I buy a can for Chris.

Yum, finished meatloaf!

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes (whipped potatoes).
One of my favorite meals.

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