This is a no-spend day. In fact, I haven't even gone out of the house.
I had a interesting struggle trying to make meatloaf today. I decided to use my cousin's recipe, since I like it so well, but I didn't read it carefully. I ended up with three loaves that were very wet and loose. I thought they would firm up in cooking, but they didn't. I checked them at 35 minutes, when I was planning to top them with cheese and sauce. They disintegrated.
I wanted to save all that meat, so I tried to turn it into chili, but the texture was all wrong. So I made corn pone pie. That's a casserole with a thick chili base, with corn bread cooked on top. It turned out great! My cousin said I could make it every day. That's good, because there was so much meat I froze half of it!
My sister and her husband came over for cards -- free entertainment. They brought steamed clams and fruit salad. But we were so stocked with food -- and not big seafood fans -- they took back the clams. But the fruit salad was great with the corn pone pie.
The meatloaf that wasn't
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There was egg in the recipe, but evidently not enough. Two eggs for 2 1/2 lbs. of meat. They didn't do the job.