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In America I think we love meatloaf, am I correct?
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And I've got several meatloaf recipes that are my favorite.
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My Aunt Peggy's Traditional Meatloaf is delicious.
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I get a lot of feedback on it.
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And then when we were in the smaller restaurant
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down the street we served a Cheeseburger Meatloaf
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with a cheese sauce, and people loved it.
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And I'm gonna be making that in another video soon.
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But today I'm making,
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and I have to keep myself from getting confused,
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I'm making a Cheeseburger Meatloaf,
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but not the Cheeseburger Meatloaf with the sauce (laughs).
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So, I'm gonna start with about six pieces of bacon.
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And I don't like, the recipe calls for cooked bacon,
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but when I'm using bacon that's gonna get cooked again
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I don't want it like crispy.
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I want some of the fat still left in bacon.
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So, I'm gonna cut this up,
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and it's gonna be going into our hamburger mixture.
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In fact, Troy and I, the GM at The Lady and Sons,
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we were working on a new menu for the restaurant,
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and I noticed that you know,
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how did I leave meatloaf off the menu.
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So, we're bringing meatloaf back because it's, like I said,
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just one of people's favorite things.
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We grew up on meatloaf.
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All right, so I got that chopped,
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and you know, it's just simple.
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and naturally the bacon,
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So, remember, if you want some of the bacon fat
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don't cook your bacon all the way crispy.
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Because this is cooked perfectly
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where I'm gonna have flavor also from the bacon, all right?
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cheese, and that's why we're calling it
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a Cheeseburger Meatloaf.
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Mayonnaise makes everything better, just like that butter.
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I was so distressed yesterday 'cause I didn't have
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a teaspoon of butter in my house.
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And butter and mayonnaise,
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I get the chilly-willies if I (laughs),
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if I get to a point when I don't have those two things.
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All right, so, and meatloaf to me is
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better just mixing it by hand.
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I'm gonna put a little salt and pepper in this too I think.
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Just a little, we can always add more at the table.
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Now, this meatloaf is similar to my Aunt Peggy's Meatloaf
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because we're gonna put kind of a sweet topping on it.
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All right, and I just washed my hands so I'm going in
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and mixing this, finish mixing it by hand.
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Okay, like I said, if we use a whole can of diced tomatoes
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it would make this too soupy so,
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like I said, I'm gonna use like half a can.
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Now I'm just gonna pull out what I think is half a can.
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That looks like a half a can, doesn't it Eddie?
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- Mm-mm-mm, this is gonna be so good.
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And I love a meatloaf sandwich.
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Do you like a meatloaf sandwich Eddie?
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- Love a meatloaf sandwich.
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Now, this is just something that I have done for years.
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You don't have to do this if you don't want to,
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a grade of hamburger meat mix like a 70/30,
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I mean that'd be a lot of fat in it.
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But if you're using like a 90/10, 90% meat and 30% fat.
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And I just would put this bread down in my casserole dish
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so it could soak up the grease.
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Like I said, if you're using a hamburger meat
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that's got low fat you probably wouldn't need it,
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but you'd be amazed at the fat that that bread will soak up.
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In fact, my family kinda likes to nibble on that bread,
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but that's not what it's used for.
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That's not what it's supposed to be.
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So, I'm just gonna form this into a loaf,
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gonna mold it real good so it won't crack or come apart.
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That's a pretty meatloaf isn't it Eddie?
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- Huh, it's big, yeah.
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Yeah, that one little pound of hamburger
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went a long way didn't it, by the time we added stuff to it.
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All right, this Cheeseburger Meatloaf does have
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a little sauce to go on top,
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and that's brown sugar, ketchup, and a little mustard.
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And this just makes that meatloaf so tasty.
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And if you want to double this recipe,
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by all means do it because I like
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kind of a nice, thick coating.
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And sometimes I'll wait until my meatloaf is like half done
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and then spread this out.
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So, and you know what?
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I think that's what I'm gonna do today.
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I think I'm gonna let it cook for a little while
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and then I'll spread that on.
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So, and I'll just cook away.
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All right, I think I got that patted down good.
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So, we are gonna cook this
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from anywhere from 45 minutes to 60 minutes.
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Yum, but halfway through I'll come back
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and put the topping on it.
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I would double this recipe y'all on the topping,
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But I'm gonna take our meatloaf out
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because it's been cooking for 20 minutes.
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I didn't want this to evaporate 'cause see,
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that's not a whole bunch of sauce,
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and that sauce just makes it so tasty.
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But see, if I had put that on at the start of the cooking
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it would eventually almost disappear,
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and I don't want that to happen.
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I don't want my sauce disappearing
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'cause that's the good part.
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I'm gonna set it for 20 more minutes,
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so that would bring us to 40 minutes cooking time.
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And I'll probably need to run it back
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another five or 10 minutes.
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Now, I wound up cooking that for 60 minutes.
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you can see that there was not much fat in this meat,
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you know, not a whole bunch of grease.
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And you see how that worked by me putting on that topping
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halfway through the cooking after 20 minutes, see,
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it just kind of caramelized a little bit
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but it didn't go away.
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And if you wanted to you could take the meatloaf
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off that bread, but I just, you see, leave it on there
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and then peel it off when I slice it.
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I'm gonna put it up here so y'all can see it good.
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Whew, I am so hungry.
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just brings a wonderful flavor
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to this meatloaf, a wonderful flavor.
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I can't hardly wait for a sandwich (laughs).
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is just perfectly sweet
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with the savory of the loaf.
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So, you can certainly make this ahead of time
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and just throw it back in the oven for a few minutes
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or slice it and throw it in the microwave.
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Or slice it and put it in a skillet
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like you would a hamburger.
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Either way, I think y'all are gonna love this.
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One more great recipe down (laughs).
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