Meat Loaf, not Purina...

Meatloaf

Ok, so it kinda looks like I ate dog food for dinner, with a side of broccoli and mashed potatoes. I swear I didn't. Friday night on my way home from work I stopped in at Borders in search of a specific cookbook that I'd been looking at online. I found the one I was looking for but after thumbing through it at the store, I decided it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I headed over to the gluten-free section to see if there was anything over there. That's where I found it, I had forgotten about it, but it's exactly what I needed... Carol Fenster's 1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes cookbook. I took a quick look through it, but right away, I knew I needed to add this to my library. I absolutely love it. She really has given us the "encyclopedia of gluten-free recipes" in this book. This is the perfect thing to help me with my meal planning issues. It is packed full of delicious and easy recipes. I already had a pound of ground beef in the fridge so I looked up ground beef in the index and went straight to her meatloaf recipe.

The meatloaf that I grew up with was very basic, meat, breadcrumbs, egg, salt, pepper... I don't even know if it had ketchup in it. She also had a recipe that was made with stove top stuffing... soooo delicious. This recipe calls for tomato sauce and onions so I knew it would be different, but I love to try new things. Unfortunately my brain was mush today and I forgot a few things when I went to the grocery store, so I improvised a little. It called for tomato sauce, which you add brown sugar, worcestershire sauce and seasonings to, but I forgot it so I used ketchup instead. I know ketchup already has sugar in it but I went ahead and added the other ingredients as if I had used tomato sauce. I thought it tasted pretty good. I used Shabtai Gourmet GF Preadcrumbs, but next time I'd use something else. I was at Good Health today and had the Gillian's GF Bread Crumbs in my hands but I put them down and forgot to go back and get them. I picked up a Namaste Foods muffin mix though, I'm making that next.

I highly recommend this cookbook, it is awesome, I will use it all the time. I can't wait until the next time. There are so many recipes it's almost overwhelming, but that's ok, I'll make my way through it! Now, it's off to attempt those muffins...

Comments

Liz said…
You just reminded me that I need to review that book! The publishers of it sent me a copy in the Fall and I totally forgot to review it. Whoops.

Anyway, it is a great book and I'm glad the meatloaf was tasty! I made an apricot chicken dish from it recently that was amazing.
Marlow said…
Looks yummy!! Oh mashed potatoes, how I wish your starches didn't turn into sugar!!
:) Your post cracked me up! By the way, I LOVE this cookbook too... The pizza crust recipe is excellent - just made it last night (again).

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