The Mystery of Rachel's Meatloaf

Hello, everyone. I am currently watching Iron Chef America, and although I do not ever wish to be on the show because I would only make cookies and cupcakes and no actual food, I thoroughly enjoy their creativity.

Tonight in Morrow was during at-home cookin'. Well, except for my house, because my mother never made me meatloaf because she didn't like it. I think I have mentioned this before. Anyyywayyy...

For dinz tonight, we had Caesar salad, spinach salad, meatloaf with mushroom gravy, lentil patties, (dirty) mashed potatoes, corn, blueberry oatmeal delicious cake, and buttercrunch ice cream. Contrary to what was on the 2eat site, there were no buttermilk biscuits. A disappointment, but we survived.

"Thirty minutes have elapsed"

I was suffering from some stomach issues at dinner time, so I, unfortunately, was not able to partake in all the delicious offerings. I nommed on some salad, corn, and a little mashed potatoes and gravy, and, of course, dessert. All super helpful to my stomach ache. Psh, sure.

From those who ate the meatloaf, it was apparently quite good. Rachel looked down at her plate later in the evening, and discovered a bite taken from her meatloaf that she did not take, and was not there moments earlier. Twas a little scary. The mushroom gravy was quite flavorful, and a very nice touch to the mashed potatoes. I put the term "dirty" in quotes because they were not described as such, but dirty mashed potatoes typically are prepared in the way we had them tonight--with the skins mixed in. Yum.

The corn was, well, corn. It's hard to go wrong there. According to Nina, the lentil patties were very good.

For dessert, Miss Samara and I put some of the ultra delicious blueberry crumble cake in a bowl and placed the buttercrunch ice cream over it. She warmed hers for a little bit, I did not. It might have been the most delicious thing, ever. I wanted to never hit the bottom of the bowl...I might have made a few trips back to the dessert bar to prevent that from happening.

Mary-Kate was responsible for the delightful musical choices.
Julie entertained us with her always smart-driving-in-treacherous-conditions stories. We apparently repeated the same statement a few times, yet I cannot remember it at all.


"Fifteen minutes to go"

Overall, tonight was delicious homecookin', so appropriate since Morrow is our true home. I will be reporting about brunch on Sunday, so have a great and safe weekend, and never forget: nom nom nommmmz nom nomity nomnomnom.