One might think that meat is a critical part of meatloaf. One might also think you only need one pound of ground beef for a one pound loaf pan. Welp, this one was wrong.
I was so excited today when I went to the butchers and got ALL OF THE MEATS, that I didn't notice that one pound of ground beef is only about the size of two small apples. The pan is about four times that size... Well, cupcakes are small! I can use a cupcake pan and stop filling it when I run out of meat!
You can use a lot of things as fillers in meatloaf. I almost ran out of cupcake pan. This is what I added, approximately and in this order.
0) Preheat oven at 400 F.
1) Hard boil three eggs; peel and quarter.
2) Fry up a sliced onion with red pepper flakes, a tbsp of minced garlic, Worcestershire, Maggie and soy sauces.
3) Line cupcake tin with a slice of thick cut bacon in each cup; bake for 10 minutes or so. Crispier is better, but make sure they don't collapse in on themselves.
4) Toss onions in mixer with the pound of meat (half chuck, half baconburger) and start mixing in crap, like 1/4 lb sliced onion cheese in pieces, 1/4c hemp seeds, 1/2c almond meal, 1/4c wheat bran, 1/4c flax seeds, and about a tbsp of sundried tomatoes in oil I had left.
5) Once the meat is all mixed and seasonings are adjusted, pull the bacon cups out of the oven and place tray on a trivet. Using two spoons, put about a tbsp of meat inside each bacon-wrapped cup, add 1/4 hard egg, and fill to the top with the rest of the meat.
6) Bake for 25 minutes, or until desired cookedness.
7) Let cool on trivet.
They came out very nice and moist, but the texture was a bit creamier than your standard loaf. Once they were baking, I thought of other things I could have added that I have used successfully in meatballs, like rice (quinoa would also work), chipotle, green olives, chicken shreds, cream cheese, cocktail onions, panko or toast crumbs...
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