Meatball-Style Stuffed Meatloaf on Monday October 6
Bruce loves meatloaf and he loves meatballs, so I made the best of both using the ingredients from my family’s recipe. I stuffed the meatloaf with homemade mozzarella cheese, sliced prosciutto, and fresh basil.
I topped the loaf with homemade tomato sauce and let the oven do the rest. The meatloaf was served with more tomato sauce and some orzo that was tossed with the olive sauce we made on Sunday to go with the lamb.
We enjoyed a nice salad of arugula, gorgonzola dolce, amazing concord grapes, with a white balsamic vinaigrette. The wine was Treviso Malbec 2005.
We Still Had Fresh Truffles on February 7
I made meatloaf with paprika mushroom gravy (a Hungarian twist) and served it with truffled, paprika mashed potatoes. I can’t believe we still had truffles!!
Bruce made a salad of mixed baby greens, apple, kumquat, roasted walnut and shaved Parmesan cheese. The dressing was a balsamic vinaigrette. We drank red wine that from Italy that is almost my namesake: Eliseo from Toscana.
Who We Are
Sunburned and full!
My husband, Bruce, and I live on the beautiful Oregon Coast. We are passionate home cooks and make dinner from scratch almost every night of the week. We shop the farmer’s market, buy as much from local producers as we can, and support the organic, sustainable, and Slow Food movements. We believe that knowing where your food comes from, cooking from scratch, eating well, in season, and together at the table are all part of living healthy. You won’t find many foods from the middles aisles of the grocery store in our house!! This blog is an account of our home-cooked meals for the year 2008 (and now 2009). The way it works is I prepare the main entree’ (I usually don’t follow a recipe–I like to think of recipes as reference and use them to generate ideas) while Bruce usually makes a salad to match. We eat the salad after we eat the main entree’. We learned to eat that way when we visited Italy and prefer it now. We always have a bottle of wine with dinner, so we’ve documented it as well. We don’t go by what’s best with white or red, we just drink what we like. This project started in December 2007 when there were many discussions regarding the frequency in which favorite dishes were made. We determined that the best way to know how often we ate pasta with Bolognese sauce (or anything else) was to document it. We have been doing just that in a journal since January 1, 2008. I then decided that it would be better to put it on a blog; not for public attention, but for easier storage management and transferability of the data. If you happen to stumble across this blog and find it interesting, or would like to know how we made something, let me know–I am happy to share.
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