Marie Cookpad

    Meatloaf.  I put my hand up, I hated my mother's meatloaf when I was a child.  I think it had more to do with the quality of ground meat she used.  I was a fully grown adult and cooking for myself before I came to fully appreciate how delicious it can actually be!  In north America you will find Meatloaf Platter dinners offered in most Diner's, usually as a Blue Plate Special.  Normally accompanied with Mashed Potatoes, gravy and a vegetable on the side.    Todd is still not sure (after 20 years!) if meatloaf is something he loves or not, but yesterday he quite happily ate two slices.  The recipe I am sharing today is a riff on my usual version.  I added something that I received in my latest Degustabox to spice it up a bit, with most delicious results.   As those of you who have been reading me for a while know, I am the lucky recipient of the gift of a Degustabox each month. Once a month, around the middle of the ...

  Back in the late 1970's when I was a very young Bride with two small children we lived in Calgary, Alberta for a while, and the later on near Edmonton in a small town called Stony Plain.  We were friends with a lovely family, the McNevins.  Their son had been a soldier in my ex husband's Infantry Platoon, having gone through basic training together.    These people were the salt of the earth and so very kind to me.  I was thousands of miles away from my own family, with little or no support, with a husband who was often away and they kind of took me under their wing.  We often spent weekends with them and their family.    Mr McNevin had been a helicopter Pilot for a Heli-Ski company and my oldest son saw him as sort of  a Grandfather of sorts, and his wife Lil was almost like a Grandmother to the kids.  They had a very old and slobbery British bulldog, named Bing,  who was very gentle. He liked to pull our daughter Eileen aro...