Recipe: Favorite Meatloaf

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Favorite Meatloaf
From: Nancy Howells
Newsgroup: rec.food.cooking
Date: 4-4-2001

I make different kinds of meatloaf, but here's a favorite. The texture of this is fine and solid.

1/2 pound ground pork (quite fatty)
1/2 pound ground beef (preferably as low-fat as possible) (10%)
1/2 pound ground veal (10% or so)

1/2 cup chopped onion
3 cloves minced garlic
1/2 cup diced red pepper
I don't saute my veggies first

1/2 cup Italian flavored bread crumbs (Progresso)
1/4 cup grated parmaggiano cheese
1/2 cup canned/bottled spaghetti sauce without meat
2 eggs

Mix, press into pan (I bake it in a deep, rectangular glass casserole). Bake for 1/2 hour at 400F. Pull out, drain fat.
Top with 1/2 cup (second half cup) of canned/bottled spaghetti sauce.
Replace in oven, continue baking for 45 more minutes.

After 45 minutes, pull out, top with more parmaggiano cheese, and let rest.