Election Night Comfort Food

Meatloaf

1.5 - 2 lb ground beef
1 small onion (chopped)
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/4 tsp herbes de provence
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1 chunk Italian bread (broken into bread crumbs)
1/4 tsp paprika (smoked if you have it)
1 can tomato sauce (puree)
1 can tomato paste

Mix it all together. Put it in a casserole dish. Bake it at 350 F for an hour. Bake some potatoes with it. Eat it. Take comfort in its warm, meaty goodness. Put some butter on your potatoes and enjoy the comforting starches. Drink a good lager or some warm cider with this.

This is a very moist meatloaf. If you want your meatloaf to be more loafy, then drop the tomato sauce and maybe add a little ketchup to make everything stick. I am also thinking of doing a version where I use crushed water crackers in place of the Italian bread.

I have no idea who first came up with meatloaf. Wikipedia doesn't seem to know either. I know that this is roughly adapted from my grandmother's recipe which is probably adapted from a Depression era meal. I added the herbes de provence to replace the tarragon and the paprika and changed around some ratios and specified the bread. My grandmother's recipe doesn't specify how the meat is cooked or at what temperature. But this is truly the comfort food of my childhood and meatloaf with potatoes and some cider...

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I taste something sweet.

I think it is called hope.