Tales from the Po' Boy
Po' man's Meat loaf.
Back in the mid to late 70's we had a Situation that cause a Beef Crisis here in the US. The core of the problem was pure fucking greed. The prices were so stupid high for the amount of limited beef in the supermarket that this began the rise of people eating chicken and pork which helped in the end Changed how we Americans eat our main meal.
One of the main stays of that time period was meat loaf. During that time soy extenders were placed in hamburger and it was actually good. The combination of people changing the types of meat to eat and the soy extenders caused the greedy money grab of the beef industry to collapse and meat prices went down for a long... long time. But the damage was done and people continued to eat a lot of seafood, chicken, and pork and other things to this day.
I have several recipes on Poor Man's Meat Loaf and the difference are what is available to me that works. A Real Poor Man Meatloaf are the ends of 3 or 4 days of other types of meals that would this be good in Da' loaf.
I ask my GF to get a a few pounds of regular hamburger. Nothing fancy. Unfortunately for me she LOVES my meatloaf... A LOT. So she bought me 8 pounds of hamburger meat. 15% fat. 30 Bucks. God help me... This is going to take effing long. Well time to grab all of the cooking equipment, Roll up my sleeves. Listen to Goblin Slayer while I prepare my loaves of Meat. you will need a decent food processor a large mixing bowl and several other smaller bowls to place items in.
NOTE: don't worry about cleaning the food processor every time as you will be using a lot and it is not necessary. The only thing you need to do first to put in on the processor is the toasted bread.
8 pounds of meat. Put in a large container and set it aside.
3 french rolls that were at their end of their life being sandwich material. Toasted, cut up and food processed until it is bread dust. Makes a little over 2 cups (1/2 liter). Put in a container and set it aside.
1 Onion. Cut and processed into a puree. Cut and processed into a puree. Makes around 1 cup. Put in a container and set it aside.
1 clump of Parsley. Cut and processed into a puree. Put in a container and set it aside.
4 apples that were in the fridge for 4 months. Yes they were usable for this. Cut and processed into a puree. Makes a little over 2 cups (1/2 liter).
Add 2 eggs and 1 cup of tard cum then starting add the other pureed contents with the last being the powdered toasted bread. Slowly add the powdered bread when it gets too clumpy and it will you add another cup of tard cum to make sure that the food processor does not bogged down. If you need more than tard cum (or water) then add enough until you get a nice semi firm goop.
You will add this goop into the container that you have the meat. Start mixing it together. Once that is done you want to place this meat stuff back into the food processor and start remixing everything in 1/2 filled sizes in the food processor. Then places the amounts of refined meat back in the Large bowl.
The reason why is a lot of people that I know do not like chunky style of meat loaf. By putting it back into the food processor you are making sure that you are breaking the crumpliness down from the chopped up material/vegetables/meat to a minced level.
Oil up your baking pans and place the contents in there. Bake at 350 degrees and check 40 minutes then every 10 minutes so to to make.
This makes around 12 1/2 pounds wet approx. 9 pounds cooked.
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So....
8 pounds of hamburger meat
2 cups of bread crumbs/dust
2+ cups of tard cum/water.
2 cups of minced apple.
2 eggs.
1 cup of minced onion.
1/4 cup of minced parsley.
Makes you a lot of food that you can freeze as well as give people a meal.
NOTE: I made 6, 1/2 pounds of meat loaf burgers and placed them in my fridge. The rest of meatloaf was baked.
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So what does this taste like and is it worth all of the work? Absol-fucking-lootly it is. It is so damned good at base level that even cooking the meat loaf burgers were incredibly juicy and with a lingering sweet apple taste. In my case I did not need any additional seasoning and/or flavorings added to the mix. 10 to 12 servings depending on how you want to serve the meat loaf and of course it freezes well.
Dinner was awesome and the old lady was happy. Got to keep Moma happy you know.
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The Burgers were great. Made them into Cheddar Cheese burgers with red onion, sweet pickles lettuce, mustard, and ketchup. With a side of Corn chips of course.
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NOTE: It was a cold day in my house so what you are seeing is heat/steam rising from the meal and the cooked burgers. Again incredibly juicy and tasty. Just to let people know that you can eat well without burning a hole in your wallet.
So this ends another session and another Po' boy recipe from....
The Red Chair...
