Food Experiment

[patgund]

Tonight, (with the help of the lovely and talented seattlejo), I tried a recipe I've been wanting to make.

Namely "Cajun Meatloaf".

The base recipe was pretty straight forward, but I did want to do some tweaking of it to fit household tastes and allergies. The changes were:

Removed the green bell peppers and celery
Used salted butter
Increased the onions to one cup
Increased the green onions to 1/2 cup
3 tablespoons of minced garlic

I used garlic tabasco instead of regular, because I like the milder taste of it. Also used asian fish sauce rather than worcestershire.

Two mistakes I made though. The recipe called for 1 tablespoon of tabasco and 1 tablespoon of worcestershire. I was going to double both but accidently used a teaspoon rather than a tablespoon.

The results??



Here's an almost intact shot of the loaf. I was going to get a couple pictures of the slices, but.......



As you can see, it was a hit. (smile)

Things I want to change next time. Add one more egg as a binder. Maybe try sourdough crumbs sometime. Oh, and double the recipe. Yep, double the recipe.

(crossposted to patgund and food_porn)

Comments

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Meatloaf never photographs well. I mean, i loved it, it just never looks as good on photo as it does in person.

[ophy.livejournal.com]

How does one make a cajun anything without all three components of the trinity?

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Because I lothe bell pepper and one of the people in the house is very allergic to it?

Celery was iffy to me. So yeah, I was down to one element of the trinity :-) Cajun was in quotes for a reason.....

One idea I was thinking of for the future was using rice instead of bread crumbs though.