Meal's Meatloaf

My nickname is "Meal", and the recipe card I have for this, written years ago, actually says "Meal's Meatloaf," though I'm pretty sure I dug it out of an old cookbook somewhere. The baby was able to play with her new toy cell phone in her high chair while I put this together. This doesn't take very long to prepare and is about as cheap as the ground beef to make it, so for less than $5 you have meatloaf. You might want to let the meat sit on the counter about 20 minutes or so to warm up though, since you'll be mixing with your hands and it really sucks to mix cold meat.

Ingredients:

1 1/2-2 pounds lean ground beef
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup fine dry bread crumbs
2 Tbsp snipped fresh parsley, or 1 Tbsp dried
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp ground sage
1/4 cup chopped onion (optional)

Sauce-
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp dry mustard
1/4 cup ketchup

Combine eggs and milk in large bowl. Stir in bread crumbs, (onion), parsley, salt, sage, and pepper til all is mixed well.


Add ground beef. Mix well with your hands. Put in a greased glass loaf pan, pushing the meat down into the sides of the baking dish so there are crevices and it rises up toward the middle.

Bake at 350F for 60 minutes.
Drain fat with a spoon.

Mix ingredients for sauce and spread over top of meat loaf.

Bake 10 more minutes.

Serve with mashed potatoes and vegetables. This tastes great! Serves 6.