Today I
learned a valuable lesson. Do not leave
the house when the oven is on auto-clean.
Earlier today I made meatloaf for dinner. Unfortunately for me, the juices of the
meatloaf oozed over the side of the pan burning on the bottom of the oven
causing my house to fill with a light veil of smoke. After eating dinner, I turned on the “self-cleaning”
oven. For the first half hour or so
everything seemed to be fine. All of a sudden I heard a strange popping noise. Quickly, I ran to the kitchen to investigate
the noise. Pop! I heard it again. But this time I saw where it was coming from. Behind my oven a puff of flame leapt out, grazing
the wall. OMG! I quickly turned off my oven and ran to wake
up Brian. Thankfully, this is a new oven,
still under warranty. Tomorrow I will
contact the store where I bought it and have them fix it. Thank God my house did not catch on fire;
where would my two cats and my dog live?
Lesson learned, don’t leave the house when the oven is cleaning.
Firehouse Meatloaf
Put 2 lbs or 1 kilo of ground
beef into a bowl. Add one package of dry
onion soup mix, one egg, 1 cup of ketchup, 2 tablespoons of mustard, 1
tablespoon of Montreal steak seasoning (or a pepper seasoning) and 10 shakes of
Worcestershire sauce. Take a cup of oat
meal and put it in the food processor and chop it fine, dump into meat mixture. Chop up: 2 carrots, ½ green pepper, one onion
and 2 cloves of garlic; stir into meat mixture until all the ingredients are completely
mixed together. Place uncooked meatloaf into a bread pan. Now, in a bowl mix ½ cup of ketchup with 2
heaping tablespoons full of brown sugar, mix well and pure over the meatloaf
covering the top. Place in a 350F
(175C) for about one hour, or until
completely cooked. In order to not get
the meatloaf juices all over the bottom of the oven, place a cookie sheet or a pan
on the rack below the pan. Enjoy!
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