After a long, painful wait, it's finally happening. I have my cocktail shaker on standby, my cherry apron around my waist, and a Pandora station dedicated to the Supremes. That's right, this Saturday, just a few short days away, Mad Men will make its season 5 premiere. More
To be clear, this isn't a deconstructed meatloaf-like patty between two slices of bread. It's an actual slice of meatloaf. The meatloaf is delicious, as one taste of any other meat product at Fatted Calf could have supported. Made from a combination of ground beef, pork, and bacon that's been cured in-house, the loaf is well seasoned with herbs, onions, and carrots. More
The plank served mainly as a way to grill the meatloaf but the wood imparts a nice smokiness to the meatloaf. It's filled with even more flavor from the herb stuffing and a barbecue sauce glaze. More
Clockwise from top left: Obama meatloaf; zombie meatloaf with pesto-spaghetti hair and hard-boiled egg eyes; SpongeBob Squareloaf; snowman loaf with turnip purée as body coloring. [Photographs: Meatloaf Creations] And you thought meatloaf cupcakes were the extent to which you could trompe l'oeil with ground meat and accompanying vegetable matter? Allow me to introduce you to the blog Meatloaf Creations, which turns the iconic American comfort food into a medium of expression you'd never dreamed of. Why? It's FUN! My kids love to get their hands messy in meat! When they help make their food, they're more likely to eat it. Which brings me to... It's Sneaky. Meatloaf is the ultimate place to hide veggies. Just give 'em a whirl... More
[Photograph: Not Martha] A layer of crispified cheese makes a delicious topping that also looks like the skin of a diseased, dismembered hand—perfect for Halloween. In her quest to make a meat hand, Not Martha tried two versions of a hand-shaped meatloaf before discovering the most gruesome of them all, featuring a top layer of browned cheese, onion fingernails, and an onion wrist bone. [via Metafilter] Related How to Make Ghostly Eggs Photo of the Day: Meat Head Photo of the Day: Ginger Skeleton Cookies... More
The 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman follows the rote daily routine of single mother Jeanne Dielman over three days, with a focus on housework. Naturally, that includes a significant amount of food preparation. Not having seen the movie, I'm taking the New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby's word for it: It's also not a movie to see on an empty stomach. At various points in the film the camera watches Jeanne as she cooks. Without cutting away or using any other ellipses, the movie attends to Jeanne's cooking as if it were a documentary, showing us how she prepares, among other things, what seems to be a succulent... More
For the last few years, folks have debated whether Chicago has matched or eclipsed great North American food towns like New York, San Francisco, or Montreal. While the debate rages on, one factor against our pre-eminence as a serious food town was our lack of fringe specialty food shops. Everyone knows the real top food cities reach a point of saturation where all the mainstream good restaurant ideas are taken and have been replicated a hundred fold and tweaked with zany minor iterations. Thus, the only way to be successful is to pursue culinary improbability, that brand of foodie entrepreneurship that spawns BLT cupcakes, deep fried mayonnaise, Kobe beef and foie gras-topped hamburgers, and Krispy Kreme milkshakes. While it’s true... More
Hot on the heels of our own Meatloaf Appreciation Day, the New York Times claims to have solved the meatloaf conundrum.... More
To make a meatloaf cupcake, top a bite-sized lump of meatloaf with mashed potato frosting and corn niblet jimmies. Aw! Meatloaf has never looked so cute.... More
Meatloaves from Off the Broiler, The Meatwave, Confabulation in the Kitchen, Last Night's Dinner, Erin Covert, and Nami-Nami. We had so many happy participants in our National Meatloaf Appreciation Day food event that we're sharing submissions in three groups—so much easier for you to digest! 15 more great meatloaf links, after the jump.... More
