I could not believe it was Monday morning. I had no time and no groceries. I found 1 lb. of ground beef in the freezer and grabbed the stack of recipes. I wondered how long that ground beef had been in the freezer. I found the perfect way to start. My friend Barb thought she would be funny at my retirement party and give me a packet of the McCormick seasoning called appropriately, “Meatloaf”. Mix with milk (all we had was fat free), an egg, breadcrumbs and bake. I could only make half the recipe as the package called for two pounds of ground beef. Of course, I was busy that evening when Terry got home (I’m retired, not dead!) so I left instructions for him to bake his first surprise meatloaf. Later that evening, I got this huge text about how awesome I was when he saw it. It does not take much to make him happy. When I got home, I asked for his score. “Score?” he said. “Yes, we should score these each week. If mine is a 10, then how do you rank all the others?” “Well, whose recipe, was it?” “Oh no, you can’t know that. It will impact your scoring.” He said “Well, it was interesting. It all sort of fell apart. Like loose hamburger.” I immediately thought of the 90s sitcom that referenced ‘loose meat sandwiches’. It sounded gross back then and it did not hit me any better now. “I give it a 6.”
“What? On a scale of 1 to 10? You must be kidding?”, I said. I knew immediately he was being generous because he is too nice to hurt the feelings of the person who gave us this recipe.
He had no idea it was a package of spices with one egg, breadcrumbs and milk. Well, the joke is on him because that is a tight range for 41 more Meatloaf Mondays.
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