Smokey Lew
Head Chef
Got a new cookbook for Christmas and it had a couple of meatloaf recipes in it I wanted to try. The book is called "Primal Cuts, Cooking with America's Best Butchers" by Marissa Guggiana. The book profiles (from the dust jacket) "more than 50 of our most gifted butchers and share their favorite dishes, personal stories, and cooking techniques." Pretty interesting concept for a cook book.
Anyway, I love meatloaf and tried out butcher Taylor Boetticher's Fatted Calf recipe. Fatted Calf is the name of the town in California he has his business in. Go figure. What's interesting about this meatloaf is that it combines beef with sweet pork sausage and diced up bacon in the mix of meat. It also has a nice blend of ketchup, Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce and horseradish in the meat mix and for the glaze on top of the loaf. It came out very tasty.
The turkey meatloaf recipe was provided by butcher Ron Savenor. His shop is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His recipe was pretty straight forward and I took the liberty of adding some of the sweet pork sausage and a couple of tablespoons of Suckle Busters Hoochie Mama BBQ rub to the turkey meat in the mix. The mix also had minced onion, carrot, and celery in it plus a couple of table spoons of club soda. Not sure what that did but I added it along with bread crumbs, egg, ketchup, garlic, salt, and pepper. This meatloaf came out really nice. The flavor profile is one of my favorites for meatloaf now.
I also added some chicken legs and thighs dusted with Chef Merito Chicken Seasoning and finished with Iron Chef General Tso's Sauce & Glaze. It came out pretty tasty but very gooey and sticky. Nice finger licking snack food.
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Anyway, I love meatloaf and tried out butcher Taylor Boetticher's Fatted Calf recipe. Fatted Calf is the name of the town in California he has his business in. Go figure. What's interesting about this meatloaf is that it combines beef with sweet pork sausage and diced up bacon in the mix of meat. It also has a nice blend of ketchup, Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce and horseradish in the meat mix and for the glaze on top of the loaf. It came out very tasty.
The turkey meatloaf recipe was provided by butcher Ron Savenor. His shop is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His recipe was pretty straight forward and I took the liberty of adding some of the sweet pork sausage and a couple of tablespoons of Suckle Busters Hoochie Mama BBQ rub to the turkey meat in the mix. The mix also had minced onion, carrot, and celery in it plus a couple of table spoons of club soda. Not sure what that did but I added it along with bread crumbs, egg, ketchup, garlic, salt, and pepper. This meatloaf came out really nice. The flavor profile is one of my favorites for meatloaf now.
I also added some chicken legs and thighs dusted with Chef Merito Chicken Seasoning and finished with Iron Chef General Tso's Sauce & Glaze. It came out pretty tasty but very gooey and sticky. Nice finger licking snack food.
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