Sometimes plain regular ass American dinner (like chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans or something) goes really hard. Add in apple sauce to a homemade meat and potatoes plate? Now we are in heaven.
We call it the blue plate special and it hits pretty hard especially when nothing sounds good and you don't want to think about what to make.
I love a good homemade traditional American comfort food plate. My grandma's italian breaded chicken cutlets with mashed potatoes and applesauce was in particular a childhood favorite. Pork chops and meatloaf go hard too.
My view on meatloaf is weird because I suspect my mom never made it right. Like I prefer my meatloaf kinda dry with slightly burnt crispy ends smothered in ketchup because that is how my mom made it. I order meatloaf from a nice restaurant and I get this moist meat sponge and I am like wtf is this? Even though I know that is the correct way to make meatloaf, and I was probably just conditioned to like bad meatloaf.
yeah, I agree actually. I bought a variety pack recently and those are the clear GOAT. I don't even know what I was on about when I said that. think I was high tbh. I mean, they're good and all but I had some earlier and they were cool, not the best tho
my mom’s meatloaf was similar except instead of smothering it in ketchup I’d smother it in gravy she’d make from a packet mix. I loved it.
She mixed it in the meatloaf but didn’t smother it. I know people around here that do though. I also liked it the next day even more.
I don't eat meatloaf often but I remember my mom made a Mac n cheese filled bacon wrapped meat loaf once when I was a kid and it was fucking dope
Yeah growing up when my mom made meatloaf, she’d mix ketchup in with the meat. My wife likes doing that too. But she’ll also top it with a tomato sauce of some sort
My mom also put the tons of onions in her meatloaf The only regular thing my mom would make the I never warmed up to was her tuna pasta salad mixed with peas. Peas don't go with tuna salad at all but I guess my mom liked it lol
Meatloaf and Beans and Cornbread are the only two meals my family would regularly make that I refused to eat as a kid. I've recently come around slightly on meatloaf and will eat it now. Still not big on cornbread unless it's super moist and sweet.
The top needs to be a little crispy and the inside needs to be moist as hell. And it needs to be kinda sweet. I got some cornbread from this kinda shitty buffet last year, and it was this bland half baked dry doughy nonsense.
Sun chips / meatloaf and cornbread are all losers to me. I don't 'hate' any of them, but rarely do I enjoy them, or think of them as something I'd purchase willingly.