Bacon Wrapped Meat Loaf

Had the urge today to do something unusual... that is to cook something from the oven toaster. The best recipe to attempt this is I think the humble Meatloaf from scratch... so here's whats for dinner tonight. Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf.

1/2 k ground pork
1/2 k ground beef
about 2 cups of bread crumbs
6 eggs, (4 hard boiled)
4 medium onions chopped
1 whole bulb of garlic chopped
half a butter
1 tsp dried oregano, 1 bayleaf
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup parsley
1 small can pimiento chopped
salt and pepper
strips of fatty bacon

preheat your oven toaster to its highest of 250 and set to 50 mins... the steps below should take you around 10 mins so that's enough time to preheat.

in a pan saute onions in a bit of oil together with the oregano and bay leaf until translucent. fish out the bay leaf and set aside to cool.

in a mixing bowl, put the meats, bread crumbs, 2 eggs, the cooled onions, garlic, parsley, pimiento, salt and pepper and worcestershire sauce. mix thoroughly. if the mixture is too wet, just add more breadcrumbs. but it should have the texture of bread dough...

flatten the mixture to level, and then divide it into 4 equal parts. get one part and place it in a 1 1/2 foot aluminum foil, flatten to a 7x3 rectangle then place 2 hard boiled eggs on the center then cover it with another 1/4 of the mixture. mold into a block, making sure its stable and firm cover with strips of bacon, making sure to tuck it from below. lift foil edges and fold making a pocket. do the same with the remaining mixture.

place foil pockets carefully in a tray that would fit inside the toaster. place inside and cook with its juices for 30-40 mins... then after, open the foil and drain the liquid that came out of it and replace the meat loafs, without the foil, on the same tray to cook again for the next 10-15 minutes until the bacon strips are golden brown...

save the drained liquid for gravy by putting it in a sauce pan, add a tablespoon of flour, then whisk until the floor is cooked, dissolve a beef stock cube in a cup of hot water and pour into the mixture, stir until it thickens, add half a cup of milk, stir and season with pepper or your fave dried herbs...

serves 10-15 people.

happy eating folks!