Boston Market Meatloaf

[mitch5252]

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(First 3 ingredients = sauce. Column 1 is 1 1/2 recipe. Column 2 is original. I felt there was not enough sauce, so next time, I I will increase by half.) And then when the recipe calls for reserving 2 T. of sauce, do more...)

This is REALLY good. I won't "Create A Meatloaf" again...I'll use this recipe.

Boston Market Meatloaf

1 1/2 C. 1 cup Tomato sauce
2 1/4 T. 1 1/2 T. Barbecue Sauce
1 1/2 t. 1 T. Sugar

1 1/2 pounds Ground sirloin
6 T Flour
3/4 t. Salt
1/2 t. Onion powder
1/4 t. Ground black pepper
Dash garlic powder

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2. Combine the tomato sauce, barbecue sauce and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat the mixture until it begins to bubble, stirring often, then remove it from the heat.

3. Reserve 2 Tbl sauce. In a large bowl combine the remaining sauce and meat until throughly mixed.

4. Add the remaining ingredients to the meat mixture and stir until combined.

5. Place the meatloaf into a loaf pan. Cover with foil and place in oven for 30 minutes.

6.Remove meatloaf from oven, uncover, and carefully drain the fat.

7. Using a knife, slice the meatloaf all the way through into 8 slices while still in the pan. Pour the reserved sauce over the top of the meatloaf, in a stream down the center. DO NOT SPREAD THE SAUCE.

8. Return the meatloaf to the oven, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes or until done. Remove and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving.

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[sharon]

Thanks Mitch, I'll try it one of these days.

[bluepinecones]

That does sound good, Mitch. Will give it a try.
As you know, I don't cook much but think I can handle meatloaf. My favorite recipe is the one that was the old Ouaker Oats boxes.

[avalen]

they stole my recipe, I kid you not, thats how I've always made it and it was the best!
The Boston Markets in my area closed down recently, within the last few months. I knew
they would cause their stuff was way too expensive and they never had any business.
Serves them right for stealing my recipe, wonder how they got in my recipe box, cause
I kept it put away, really I did.

[BarbaraRose]

I thought meatloaf was always made with bread in the recipe. I guess that is how my Grandma and my mom always made it.

[mitch5252]

I thought meatloaf was always made with bread in the recipe.

Just to absorb the grease and keep those extra calories headin' for your mouth...

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[Bethers]

Oh, that sounds yummy. Since I can never leave a recipe alone, I'd probably lower the amount of tomato sauce and add more bbq sauce, but that's just me

If I read your recipe right, you lowered the amount of sugar for when you make more. I might even try it with none. I rarely use sugar or salt in recipes that call for them (obviously, can't do that in all of them - )

Will- one of these days - be trying this!

[VickieP]

they stole my recipe, I kid you not, thats how I've always made it and it was the best!
The Boston Markets in my area closed down recently, within the last few months. I knew
they would cause their stuff was way too expensive and they never had any business.
Serves them right for stealing my recipe, wonder how they got in my recipe box, cause
I kept it put away, really I did.

Maybe Mr. Happy Pants slipped your recipe in his pants and out of the house!

[mitch5252]

If I read your recipe right, you lowered the amount of sugar for when you make more.

Thanks for the catch, Beth. I have edited my original post - it was a typo!

Thing I've learned in the last couple of years is to try a recipe as is, observe and taste the end result, and, if worth trying again, make my adjustments from there. I guess that would be because I don't have any professional training and don't have the knowledge and palate to do it right the first time with my own adjustments...ah, the voice of my own experience is speaking now!

PS: I remember trying, as a very young married girl, making my Mom's vegetable soup - I thought, "Ah, Italian spices for my Italian husband"...ACK...down the terlett it went!

PPS: Thank you, Soos, for ACK...

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[avalen]

they stole my recipe, I kid you not, thats how I've always made it and it was the best!
The Boston Markets in my area closed down recently, within the last few months. I knew
they would cause their stuff was way too expensive and they never had any business.
Serves them right for stealing my recipe, wonder how they got in my recipe box, cause
I kept it put away, really I did.

Maybe Mr. Happy Pants slipped your recipe in his pants and out of the house!

I always added special K serial all crushed up, and then made the loaves on a broiler
pan so the grease would drip out of it. But I used bbq sauce and a couple eggs.

[VickieP]

You actually never said what to do with the reserve sauce, should I mail it to you???

[mitch5252]

You actually never said what to do with the reserve sauce, should I mail it to you???

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Dearest Doofus,

Please go back and read instruction #7.
Do you and Barbie share a common bloodline?

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[VickieP]

Dearest Doofus,

Please go back and read instruction #7.
Do you and Barbie share a common bloodline?

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I guess so, I don't know why I read that and was jotting it down, thinking I was gonna make it for supper and I forgot that you put the sauce in the raw meat and put the remainder on after slicing. I was thinking that you put the sauce on after slicing and then was supposed to use the rest when you plated it.

[mitch5252]

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I LOVE when people try to explain "dumb"...

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[VickieP]

..I LOVE when people try to explain "dumb".....

...to a dummy!