I made a meatloaf yesterday for the USA v. Canada game. The meatloaf turned out better than the game.
I used New Holland’s Dragon Milk Oak Barrel Ale to flavor up the sauce. I kind of realized it wasn’t the best choice while I was buying it, but I was tired of looking and wanted to get started cooking. In retrospect I think a smoked beer like Schlenkerla or maybe even New Holland’s Charkoota Rye would have been a much better solution. Doppelbocks always seem to work well when cooking with red meat.
Anyhoo, here’s the recipe:
1lb 85% Ground Beer
1lb Jimmy Dean spicy breakfast sausage (I will use 3/4lb next time)
1 cup Ritz crackers crushed up
1 small white onion diced
1/2 a green pepper diced
1/2 a red pepper diced
7 garlic cloves diced
1 tsp Worsteschire sauce
2 eggs
1 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp cayenne
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp black pepper
2 tbsp Baldridge’sMix all that together and put into a loaf pan. Cook at 375* for 45 minutes. Then cover with this sauce and cook for another 15 minutes.
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup Captain Curt’s BBQ Sauce
8 ounces of Dragon’s Milk
1/2 cup of diced onions
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp cayenneReduce the sauce until it’s nice and thick.
After the meatloaf is done, transfer that bad boy to a plate and let it sit for about 15 minutes or so. While it’s doing that why not crumble up some bacon on the top of it?
Delicious.