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Good morning!
Friday, Sep 5, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller * I tweaked my mom’s meatloaf recipe just a little bit yesterday and then added fresh sweet corn to the gravy. Man, it was good… 
* Those are my own homegrown tomatoes, by the way… All winter without ‘em’s a culinary bummer Weekend plans?
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- Mish mash - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 8:11 am:
Looks good! Any chance we can get the recipe?
- Levois - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 8:15 am:
That looks good! And you can’t go wrong with sweet corn.
- Downstate - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 8:32 am:
Rich,
That plate looks delicious! I’m hoping you got a 2nd serving!
- H-W - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 8:44 am:
Hot air balloon rally and arts festival in Macomb. Each year about 20-25 hot air balloons fly in for the weekend. Food trucks and live music too, make for a great weekend.
- Blue Dog - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 8:58 am:
Meal looks great. my tomatoes just got rolling.
- Wonderful World - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 8:59 am:
Come on - recipes are made to be shared.
- Voice_of_Liberty - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 9:30 am:
Adding the sweet corn was very Illinois. Looks great!
- goober - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 9:32 am:
Are those canned peas?
- Bear Down - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 9:34 am:
Did you drink the juice?
- JoanP - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 9:38 am:
That looks yummy. (Except for the canned peas, sorry.)
- Terra - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 9:50 am:
Oatmeal in meatloaf is such a good binder.
- Dirty Red - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 10:04 am:
Not a cook (just ask my housemates), but what would happen if you cut the potatoes before baking them in the gravy?
Weekend plans:
- Neighborhood meeting with the mayor and alderman.
- Picking apples at the family lot.
- Kids have sleepovers with friends and Mass with Mom.
- Laundry.
Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, I hope to see you back here on Monday safe and sound.
- RiverNorthGuy - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 10:52 am:
Looks great, Rich!
Weekend plans:
-Watching the Arsenal Women kick off their season tomorrow morning.
-Lincoln Park Zoo with family coming in from the suburbs then Taste of Chicago at night.
-Cubs game Sunday.
Everyone stay safe out there this weekend. Hoping for no federal government shenanigans.
- Stix Hix - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 11:00 am:
Weekend plans: Pickin’ ‘maters.
- Loop Lady - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 11:00 am:
Going to see The Who.
Wouldn’t miss it.
Long live rock!
- PeoriaLover - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 11:30 am:
Are those oats in the meat? That’s a choice.
- JoanP - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 11:34 am:
Forgot to say my weekend plans:
- giving a couple of tours at a historic home
- Hokusai exhibit at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn.
- RNUG - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 11:36 am:
Been out to LA. Going to keep driving home on old 66.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 11:47 am:
===That’s a choice===
And a good one. Good binder, tastes great.
- thisjustinagain - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 12:18 pm:
1. Mom’s meatloaf: Bread crumbs and egg added as a binder. Those peas look kinda pale, but I’m all in.
2. Weekend: Thinking about projects (like whether one should just be cancelled) and housekeeping. Yeah, it’s a show-stopper weekend here.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 12:21 pm:
=== Those peas look kinda pale===
It’s a taste thing for me. I have always preferred canned peas to fresh or frozen, preferably LeSeurer.
- 3eyes - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 12:27 pm:
Really loving this content Rich! Please post more with recipes in the future. 😍👍
- No Relation - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 1:01 pm:
Over the years I have noticed I share the same musical interests as Rich and now I see we share the same longing for can peas over frozen peas.
This weekend is the Elnora Guitar Festival at Krannert.
- Pot calling kettle - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 1:38 pm:
The garden provides!
Over the past week, we made large batches of salsa and bruschetta topping (OMG, the tomatoes, hot peppers, garlic…). Over the weekend, we’ll be canning tomatoes and, time permitting, collecting signatures on petitions.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 1:45 pm:
There’s something beautiful about a plate with no kale on it.
- Honeybear - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 2:34 pm:
Cripes that looks like 50 dollars of ground beef there. lol
- yinn - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 2:35 pm:
I made meatloaf yesterday, too. Love using oats, as my mom and gran did. But a couple years ago, I discovered how bread crumbs can lighten up a loaf (as I’m sure the meatball makers already know). Now I use crumbs as well as oats, the results always delicious even as I still experiment with texture via proportions of each.
p.s. I love peas both canned and fresh, but they are wholly different animals of the veg world, and I would never compare the two.
- yinn - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 2:55 pm:
==Cripes that looks like 50 dollars of ground beef there==
That reminds me, during the Great Recession I participated in an informal contest to see how big a legit meatloaf could be made with the standard amount of 1 lb of ground beef. I don’t quite remember if anyone succeeded in more than doubling the weight, but I do know that everybody won.
- Honeybear - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 3:34 pm:
“It’s a taste thing for me. I have always preferred canned peas to fresh or frozen, preferably LeSeurer.”
Individual preferences are such an interesting thing. I’m rather the opposite. I literally go nuts when they have fresh peas at the store. I’ve been known to shell peas happily for 2 hours. Oh the joy of fresh peas. But you enjoy them how you like them. Each to their own. That is a lovely meal regardless.
- Honeybear - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 3:36 pm:
As for the weekend it’s porch painting time. We got most of it done but there’s always that final 5 percent that seems to take as long as the previous 95 percent. But it’ll be finished by Sunday.
- Honeybear - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 3:37 pm:
What kind of tomatoes did you grow Rich?
- ArchPundit - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 3:55 pm:
===It’s a taste thing for me. I have always preferred canned peas to fresh or frozen, preferably LeSeurer.
LOL–I have learned to like fresh and frozen, but my Grandma served Le Sueur and still love them.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 4:07 pm:
===What kind of tomatoes===
Three different kinds.
- H-W - Friday, Sep 5, 25 @ 4:16 pm:
=== I have always preferred canned peas to fresh or frozen, preferably LeSeurer.===
H-W (stabbing heart): “And you were my mentor here. Argh.
Peace be with you each