Shemzo's Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Cooking skill needed: 1/10
Difficulty: 1/10
Preparation: 15 mins
Cooking time: 45 mins

Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 kg of Potatoes
2. Salt
3. Butter

Steps:

• Skin potatoes and cut them into quarters.
• Boil them
• Once soft, strain potatoes and put inside a bowl (where you can mash it).
  
• Put in the butter while the potatoes are still hot so that it can melt and be mashed easily.
  
• Use as much/as little butter as you like. The taste should be according to how you want it to taste like. Buttery or less buttery.
  
• Mash mash mash.
  
• Add salt.
  
• Taste. Yum-O!!!
  

Shemzo's Meatloaf

Ingredients:

1. 1kg minced beef (fresh, not frozen)
2. 1 large onion, chopped
3. 1 egg, scrambled (not cooked version ok?)
4. 1/2 cup ketchup
5. 1/4 cup breadcrumbs
6. 4 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce
7. 2 tbsp of dark soy sauce
8. salt
9. black pepper
10. 2 tsp of Oregano spice
    
11. 2 tsp brown sugar or 1/3 cup of evaporated milk (optional)
12. 3 hard boiled eggs
13. some melted butter
    

Steps:

• Mix 1-11 in a big bowl.
  
• Take 1/3 of the meat and place it on a glass dish (like something you'll cook lasagna in).
  
• Place the 3 hard boiled eggs vertically along the top of the 1/3 layer of meat.
  
• Take the rest of the meat and put it on top of the eggs. Cover it and the neatly shape it into what looks like a loaf of bread.
  
• Put it in the oven at 180°C. Bake for 30-35 minutes.
  
• Take it out of the oven, drain the oil. (Don't throw it, keep it aside). The meatloaf by this time will shrink a little.
  
• Lather your meatloaf all over with the mashed potatoes.
  
• Baste the meatloaf (now covered in mashed potatoes) with melted butter.
• Put it in the oven for another 10-15 minutes until it becomes golden-y yellow.
  

Gravy

• Put the remainder of the oil in a saucepan.
  
• Thicken it with flour.
  
• Add seasoning or water IF needed. (salt/pepper)

or

• Buy "Western Family" beef gravy.
• Heat it up.
  
• Serve. :D

Taddaaaa!! All done!! For the mashed potatoes, you can add an egg, cream cheese or double whipped cream in it. It all depends on how "rich" and "fattening" you want it to be. If you don't want it all over your meatloaf, you can also just serve it as a side dish.

Also, if you want a quicker way of eating your "meat", you can just shape the meat into burger patties and grill them or cook them as you would cook a burger. Makes a good homemade burger too! Yum Yum!

Another tip, don't follow the exact measurements. Follow your sense of smell.. like Ratatouille!! I mean the measurements is just a guideline. You can add more, as long as you don't add like a whole bottle of ketchup or soy sauce.

Well, that's all from me. Hope you guys try it out.. :D

Note: Sorry peepz!! No pictures of the meatloaf I made.. By the time I went to take the camera, and came down, it was all cut up already. :(