Easter Meat Loaf

Well, it wasn't actually planned. I've got a married young'un who's not eating properly and I wanted to fix them a week night meal they could warm up and eat in split shifts or whenever. It would be a nice meat loaf with a homemade salsa topping and some tomato gravy. Planned it for Wednesday night, but my son asked for Friday. Fine. Then he asked for Sunday when they normally come over for dinner. I said fine, then on Saturday realized that Sunday was Easter. Too late to change my menu plans.

Then on Sunday morning my son invites us to his wife's family's fabulous Easter smorgasborg featuring all sorts of dips, fried chicken, stuffed manacotti, asparagus, desserts galore and more.

Home by 3:00. But wanting to think about food? Wanting to finish off the meat loaf? Talk about not wanting to eat anything, especally meat loaf? But we did, pushing bits of food around on our plates and mumbling about how good this meat loaf really was.

To make matters slightly worse my daughter-in-law had talked long distance to her parents, telling them their Sunday plans and that they'd be sharing an Easter meal with us. Having meat loaf. The parentos replied "E A S T E R M E A T L O A F ?" See what I mean?

Oh well. Our rep is ruined but the kids got to take home a complete meat loaf with lots of tomato gravy that hopefully they can parcel out over the week for some nourishment.