Meatloaf is ground beef, and if your smart, pork sausage mixed with some extra seasoning and stuff, shoved in a loaf pan, and baked until fully cooked through. There are different things you can put on top as it’s being baked, my personal preference is bbq sauce. My wife likes a can of cream of mushroom soup.

One of the best things ever is a proper meatloaf. Something even better is the next day using the leftovers in a sandwich.

I do not recommend this for a beginner, but intermediate skill should have no problem. And if you don’t have time, save this for the weekend.

But with the cat, I had a bottle of Cabernet Merlot on the shelf, but too close to the edge. Some point in the early morning the bottle found itself on the floor missing it’s bottom. I figured one of my cats checked it out and knocked it off.

I didn’t use any special ingredients. Sear a chuck roast, cook the onions and garlic, deglaze with half a bottle of red and then reduce around half. Add a few cups of beef stock with fresh rosemary and thyme. I would have added fresh tarragon, but I only had dry. I also used some celery leaf. Meat back in the pot, oven preheat to 325f for two and a half hours. Add carrots and celery and continue for another hour. Once our, I pulled the meat to a serving dish and added a thickener to the sauce. Once thickened, pour back over the meat and enjoy.

It was super tender and delicious. I don’t have much in the way of poetry for you, but damn it was tasty.

You know, I think I should ask my it guy.

I have my primary daily driver laptop running Arch for web programming and writing, my side laptop running arch for monitoring services and writing, my server computer running (again) arch that I use for web dev and jellyfin streaming, and my work laptop running Ubuntu for server management. Not to mention my chromebook for paper weight, and my wife’s laptop on Win10 she uses for design stuff. Nobody running games outside of my xBox One.