OK, to be fair I didn’t make this recipe. Bobby did, but I was busy making our sides (PW’s perfect au gratin potatoes and some buttery garlic green beans with onion). And be forewarned, this is another post without pic. I’ve really got to remember to take pictures of stuff!

Anyway, PW posted this meat loaf recipe a few weeks ago, and I’d been wanting to try it. The various families in our home church group take turns cooking our meal, and it was our turn, so this seemed like a great opportunity to make the meat loaf. Unfortunately, because both the potatoes and the meat loaf needed to bake in the oven for more than an hour each at different temperatures, this meant we were pretty much in the kitchen all afternoon Sunday.

All I can say about the meat loaf-making process is that it looked interesting. I’m usually not the biggest fan of meat loaf, but this one had bacon on it, and PW says it’s her favorite, so I was betting it would be pretty good. There’s a lot of filler in it (bread, eggs, cheese, parsley, milk), so if you are a purist at all when it comes to meat loaf (i.e., want it to be super meaty), this may not be the best recipe for you. BUT it has bacon on top, and we all know that bacon makes anything better.

I was also a big fan of the sauce that goes with the loaf. Instead of plain ketchup, it was a mixture of ketchup, brown sugar, dry mustard and tobasco sauce, and it had a nice tang to it.

This was a really good recipe to make for a large group, especially since it made a lot for a reasonably low price. We ended up with enough meat loaf for 10 people with about 5-6 servings left over, and our total cost for the meat loaf was maybe $15, tops.

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