Cheddar Meat Loaves

Home Up Printer Friendly

LI'L CHEDDAR MEAT LOAVES

INGREDIENTS:

1 egg                                                         3/4 cup milk
1 cup (4 ozs.) shredded sharp               1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
           cheddar cheese                               1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped onion                               1 pound lean ground beef (venison works very well too)
2/3 cup ketchup                                        1/4 cup packed brown sugar (see note below)  or reduce to 1/8 cup
1 1/2 tablespoons prepared mustard    1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black peppercorns  (Tellicherry)

In a bowl, beat the egg and milk.  Stir in cheese, oats, onion and salt. Add beef and mix well.  Shape into eight loaves; placed in a greased 13-inch x 9-inch x 2-inch baking dish.  Combine ketchup, brown sugar and mustard; spoon over loaves.  Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until the meat is no longer pink and a meat thermometer reads at least 160 degrees.

YIELD:
8 servings.



Note: The sauce is too sweet for my taste, therefore reduced the brown sugar to 1/8 cup or less and original recipe had 1 1/2 teaspoons of prepared mustard but increased  the amount to tablespoons.  This recipe was originally published in Taste of Home if I not mistaken.

Pixs below taken on 11-22-08 of the Li'l cheddar meat loves in pictorial essay style:

I used 1.5 lbs. of 100 percent ground venison for this recipe today and Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese!

Used a low tech item instead of the food processor for shredding 1/4 lb. of the sharp cheddar cheese. Easier to clean...grin now!

The ole portable cutting board in use again.

One egg and 3/4 cup of whole milk ready to "beat."

Shredded sharp cheddar cheese, 1/2 cup quick oats, onions and milk ready to mix together.

Above ingredients well blended.

Ground venison added to the mixture and ready to mix with hands/fingers!

Ingredients well mixed by hand...don't over do since it could toughen the finished product.

  

Catsup, prepared mustard and brown sugar ready to be blended together.

Above ingredients well blended.

Cheddar meat loaves formed into oblong shape and placed on a heavy duty cookie sheet with the sauce on top and ready for the 350 degree F. oven.  Recipe calls for a 13x9x2 baking dish but how many men can follow instructions or use a road map ladies?  Grin again!  I would definitely use the baking dish if taking to a covered dish dinner and it saves one less item to clean.

Baked cheddar meat loaves ready to transfer to a dish for a presentation pix.

Those little individual serving size Li'l Cheddar Meat Loaves were served with mashed potatoes, green peas and rolls and were fantastic even if I did do them myself.  PS:  I flipped one upside down while placing in the serving plate which is easy to pick out; Give this recipe a try...easy to do.  Bill aka Mickey Porter 11-22-08.

LEAVING ON A SPIRITUAL NOTE

If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation will be attained.   

Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Open this link about faith in the King James Bible.

Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

Open this link of Bible Verses About Salvation, King James Version Bible (KJV).

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”

Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

IN GOD WE TRUST - GOD BLESS AMERICA - "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE"   JOHN 3:16 KJV 

Home Up Printer Friendly