{"id":1203,"date":"2009-01-11T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.wordpress.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2009-01-11T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T16:00:41","slug":"your-basic-meatloaf-with-oatmeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Avenaceous Meatloaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Knowing that\u00a0this blog and I are currently celebrating National Oatmeal Month, my college roommate Amy MacDonald recently\u00a0sent me Wordsmith.org’s word of the day for January 5. The word was AVENACEOUS. It means relating to or like oats.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amy, known to her college friends as “Our Amy” (we\u00a0like to take credit for her), is one of my favorite people in the world. She’s smart. She’s funny. She’s musical. And she’s as\u00a0practical and loving as they come. She has a terrific family, from matriarch Kathleen and\u00a0the seven(!) MacDonald siblings down to her own kids, Caitlin and William. Until recently I was under the impression that\u00a0Caitlin and William\u00a0were still extremely young. Last time I saw them they were sipping drinks of such an intense blue that only children under ten could digest them–or would want to try.\u00a0According to Amy’s most recent missive, however, they have somehow become teenagers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our Amy (glamorous earrings courtesy of Kathleen)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously, Amy and I don’t get together as often as we’d like. Unfortunately (from my point of view), she lives in California. Whenever we do, we talk for hours, just as though we were still sitting on our beds at Mount Holyoke. Even when we’re apart, we think of each other often. I’m convinced that no one else would have found the term avenaceous for me.\u00a0If you’d like to see Wordsmith’s full tribute to this\u00a0highly appropriate\u00a0word, look at http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/words\/avenaceous.html.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was going to call the dish below “Your Basic Meatloaf with Oatmeal,” but I think the new name is much classier. Classy or not,\u00a0this comfort food<\/span>\u00a0is a staple in my home in winter<\/span><\/span>. My mother Jan never uses breadcrumbs to fill out her loaf. Oats are much tastier and more nutritious as well. If you\u2019re feeding small children, chop the onion and bell pepper into very small pieces to disguise them a bit. Adults seem to like larger chunks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To keep from chilling your hands, take the ground meat out of the refrigerator about an hour before you\u2019re ready to put your loaf together. Enjoy your avenaceous meal!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Avenaceous Meatloaf<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2 pounds good-quality ground beef (or a combination of beef with pork\u2014or beef, pork, and veal!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 large onion, chopped<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 medium or 1\/2 large bell pepper, chopped<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1-1\/2 teaspoons salt<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

lots of freshly ground pepper<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 or 2 eggs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1\/2 cup old-fashioned oats plus a bit more if needed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1\/2 cup ketchup<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 tablespoons brown sugar<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1\/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the ground meat, onion, bell pepper, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. (Your clean hands are the best tools for putting them all together.)\u00a0 <\/span>Blend in 1 egg and the 1\/2 cup oatmeal. If it\u2019s hard to get everything to bind together, add another egg and\/or a few more oats. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Fashion the meat mixture into a rough log, and place it in a baking dish. In a small bowl, combine the ketchup, brown sugar, and mustard, and spread them over the meatloaf.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bake the loaf from 45 minutes to 1 hour. Serves 8.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\"meatloaf-ingredients-web1\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Knowing that\u00a0this blog and I are currently celebrating National Oatmeal Month, my college roommate Amy MacDonald recently\u00a0sent me Wordsmith.org’s word of the day for January 5. The word was AVENACEOUS. It means relating to or like oats. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amy, known to her college friends as “Our Amy” (we\u00a0like to take credit for her), is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[61,68,146,275,287,298,301,391,392],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}