When life hands you pears, make meatloaf

I promise that I won’t make every new entry be about food. But I spend a lot of time in the kitchen (barefoot, but not pregnant.) I love cooking and waste my time in the kitchen when I should be doing other things, like vacuuming or cleaning the bathroom.

My friend Karen gave me a box of pears last week. Even if we ate a pear at every meal, that’s a lot of pears for two people to consume. Though, these pears are so sweet and deliciously juicy that we have been giving it the old college try. Still, lots of pears remain.

So, of course, I used pears in my meatloaf last night. And it was yummy!! I’m not sure that the yumminess had anything to do with the pears, or if it was because of the great recipe I followed. And by “followed”, I mean added various ingredients without measuring or following a recipe. I know you are dying for the “recipe”, so I’m happy to share.

1 lb ground beef (I use beef from a local grower)
1 package sausage (from the family’s pigs…very local)
1 egg
some diced onion
a few shakes of italian seasoning
a few squeezes of ketchup
a few drops of worcestershire sauce
a glug of milk
3/4 cups bread crumbs
one pear, diced

Mix it together all ingredients. Fill 6 muffin cups with meat mix and bake at 375ish until they seem done. Put the remaining meat into 3 small loaf pans and freeze to cook at a later date.

(This is really how I cook.)

Oh, I also made some pear butter in the crockpot. I sort of, kind of followed a recipe. It is also delicious.

And I made my weekly loaf of “good whole wheat bread”. That is the name of the recipe that I actually followed. Though I shouldn’t really take credit for the bread. The breadmaker gets all of the credit. I just dump the ingredients in the pan.

And still, pears remain.