Cooking Meatloaf the Newbie Way

When you were a kid, your mom never failed to amaze you with her cooking. In fact, your favorite treat was that terrific crockpot meatloaf recipe she cooks whenever there are special occasions in the family.

Indeed, nothing is more palatable than to have a crockpot meatloaf recipe on the table. It makes every holiday worth celebrating and an ordinary day special.

Now that you are already a grown up, you want to learn cooking as well and of course you want to start with a delicious meatloaf recipe. However, what bothers you is that meatloaf can be complicated to cook. In fact, as far as you can remember, your mother has used several spices and aromatic ingredients to make her every meatloaf recipe captivating.

Perhaps, this is not the ripe time for you to aim for the most complicated meatloaf recipe. You are just a newbie thus you can settle for an easy-to-make yet delicious meatloaf recipe. Here is an example...

In this meatloaf recipe, you will need the following:

1 ½ pounds ground beef

1 cup bread crumbs

1 cup milk

1/3 cup ketchup

1 egg

2 tablespoons prepared mustard

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 onion (chopped)

salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius.

2. In a bowl, combine the beef, bread crumbs, onion, milk and egg. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Place the mixture in a lightly greased 5x9 loaf pan or shape it into a loaf and press it into a lightly greased 9x13 baking dish.

3. In a separate bowl, mix sugar ketchup and prepared mustard. Mix well. Glaze the mixture over the meatloaf.

4. Bake it for 1 hour at 175 degrees Celsius.

This meatloaf recipe is so easy that it will only take you an hour and 10 minutes to prepare and cook it. Isn't that wonderful? Your delicious meatloaf recipe that makes up 8 servings is now ready to be devoured.

Another easy meatloaf recipe is the meatless meatloaf. Perhaps you will be asking, is there something like meatless meatloaf? Certainly, there is. And it is also one of the easiest recipes that you can cook.

Gather the following ingredients to get started:

3 tablespoons dry vegetable bouillon

2 pints cottage cheese

1 cup pecans, chopped

½ cup milk

½ cup butter, melted

½ cup onions, chopped

5 eggs, beaten

7 ounces Special K

1 tablespoon Accent

1 tablespoon green bell pepper, chopped.

Here is what you should do. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix all ingredients. Bake it in a 9x5 loaf pan for an hour. That's it, your meatless meatloaf is done! In a little more than an hour, you can already savor your first meatloaf recipe.

If you want a no fail newbie meatloaf recipe, the aforementioned recipes can be what you are looking for. They will neither keep you too long nor keep your tasters waiting. They can arrive smoky on the table too soon that they can expect it.

After you have learned the basics in cooking, you can start experimenting different recipes. You can even make your own version of a tempting meatloaf recipe.

Cooking has never been this easy. Your qualms are stopping you then, you never imagined it could be this exciting and engrossing.