Meatloaf

Ingredients

· 2 lb. ground beef, 85-90% lean
· 1 can condensed tomato soup
· 1 small sweet onion chopped
· 1 egg
· 3-4 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
· 3/4 cup italian bread crumbs
· salt and pepper (be generous with the pepper)
· 1/2 cup cubed sharp cheddar (1/2-1/4 inch cubes)
· 3 or 4 slices of bacon


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Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl combine meat, soup, onion, egg, worcestershire, salt and pepper. Take off your rings and mush it all together. Add breadcrumbs and continue to mix with your hands. Mixture should hold its shape pretty well. If it's too wet, add more breadcrumbs. Shape it into a compressed loaf on a large broiler pan. Cut bacon slices in half and drape across the top of the loaf.

I like to bake mine on a large broiler pan, so the grease drips through the pan. If you don't have a broiler pan, you can use a deep cookie sheet covered with foil. You can also use a fancy meatloaf pan, but you'll need a big one in order to fit it all in. Bake at 350 for about an hour and a half.

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One of Tony's former coworkers became a fan of my meatloaf when Tony brought in leftovers for lunch. Paul became a good friend of ours, and one year I gave him a meatloaf sliced, indivdudally wrapped, and presented in a cookie tin for Christmas. He was so grateful wrote me a poem about my meatloaf which I am trying desperately to find. I'll be sure to post it when it turns up.

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