A Sneaky Meatloaf Recipe (from my other blog)

Sunday, September 19, 2010

too darned healthy

Another day of cooking. Well, just the late afternoon. I was in the mood for meatloaf...and made the best that ever came out of my oven. I could never repeat it. the secret ingredient will remain a mystery...

It was sensory seeking Ds's (12 y/o) homemade salsa. The background is that he woke up last Sunday morning, made and also ate some original salsa creation before the rest of us woke up. The whole corner of church where thankfully we were sitting, (rather tucked away, because somebody was late,) reeked of garlic breath...that is no exaggeration. If you ever saw our church, the cathedral ceiling is so high it really should have risen and dissipated, , but it hung there incriminating and infecting the air around us...I kept wishing it was wafting in from a post service luncheon...but no, it was my son's lethal breath.

Oh well, his garden concoction was still in the fridge this Sunday, well preserved by the garlic and onion. The peppers were perfectly wilted,it light on Mexican spices, heavy on onions, and the tomatoes and juice - just right, so, in it went. Were I to write a recipe it would be as follows: well, minus mystery salsa, that was (about a scant 1/2 cup.)

3lbs all natural ground turkey, both dark and white meat, and no skin

1 cup certified gluten-free rolled oats

scant 1/2cup of finely ground flax seed --I use an electric coffee grinder

1/2 a 4oz can of tomato paste

1tsp salt, or just a-half

14 tsp ground (powdered) white pepper

three small onions chopped fine in the food processor

1 medium zucchini grated

(If none of sjs' salsa-you can add a tablespoon or two of finely chopped green or red bell pepper

lots of parsley--so buy it in bulk, not a wussy little grocery sized bottle--go to the mega mart

five or six leaves of fresh basil chopped

ketchup for on top in a zig-zagged or criss-crossed pattern, to keep it moist.

Bake for longer than you think you should, because ground turkey still looks pink after it is probably done, but it looks gross that way.

I think that is what was in my meatloaf tonight. Most of my recipes are a case where the "jersey is retired" and this was one of them...I am sure i forgot an ingredient, and I used agave sweetened catsup-Ketchup... --it was too sweet and i was just wanted to use it up.

This is why I really can't sign up on make them a meal, because I never know how the meal will turn out. For instance, this one was so darned healthy, that a person or family that eats the typical American diet would go into a healing crisis* for the shock to their body from all the healthy stuff i put in it.

*Healing crisis--the reaction of your body when you make a sudden change in habit regarding things you put in your body...like a junk food withdrawal... sometimes you feel like you are getting the flu, but you are just changing your body chemistry so rapidly it is detoxing too fast and dumping too many toxins for your poor body to handle...but us, we eat heath food store silage all the time, so we are good on it.

Tonight i was not drowning my sorrows so much as drowning my tomorrow. I also made lentil soup, Tuscan roasted potatoes, and mock zucchini crab cakes, because tomorrow both kids have lessons on complete opposite ends of the county tomorrow evening at 4:30PM and who knows when the grown working dudes will show-up...this way everyone can fend for themselves in the fridge on their own body clock.

I hope to cook for Sunday and Monday next Saturday...that would be a rest. laundry tomorrow, including sheets. Oh, yeah, we borrowed Mark Lowry "Mouth In Motion" VHS form the library, and needed to return it, so we watched that before bedtime--too funny-temporary stress relief.