Group cook with a neighbor. Meatloaf. "Want me to cook it?" "No, we'll
each do a meatloaf ..."
Only, I wanted to do
two different kinds. So I made two and didn't tell her until I showed up to her house. Now we have 3 meatloaves for 6 people. Lunch for a week!
Probably could have fit them both on the 22.5" but wanted different fuels for each meatloaf. These are all the details I can remember. By the time they were on the grills the kitchen was a wreck.
I *think* everything's in this picture:
- 3lbs total of ground chuck, one got 2lbs; the other 1lb + the 1lb of sage sausage
1) pork-free meatloaf:
- 2lbs ground beef
- half jar mild chow chow
- 1 egg, water added, whipped
- 1/4 cup quick oats oatmeal
- cocoa spice rub (from a friend)
smoothed flat on cookie sheet with wax paper
- bunch of raw kale sprinkled on it
- tub of feta cheese
Pull up wax paper on end; meatloaf automatically rolls up. Deposit onto bradley rack or similar.
Cook about an hour indirect with Kingsford Hickory (or hickory smoke wood ...) , then place sautéed mushroom slices on top, drizzle some sriracha mayo on top. (I used "Lee Kum Kee" brand but these days, everyone makes some kinda "sriracha" stuff. By the way, sriracha mayo is also very interesting for shrimp cocktails instead of regular cocktail sauce.)
No pix of the finished product, sorry, my world began to spin out of control fighting a carpenter bee that wanted a kettle.
2) w/ pork meatloaf
- 1lb ground beef
- 1lb sage sausage (like Jimmy Dean sage sausage)
- half bag broccoli slaw, finely chopped in food processor
- 1/4 cup quick oats oatmeal
- 1 egg, water added, whipped
- several portabella mushroom slices, finely chopped in food processor
- 1 can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, finely chopped in food processor
- Herbie's all-purpose seasoning (a local concoction, found @ Ace Hardware)
- wrapped in Jamón serrano (dry-cured Spanish ham, looks like but does not taste like prosciutto)
Cook about an hour indirect with regular charcoal (I used Coshell), then drizzle with some BBQ sauce/1000 Island combo.
and ... the tomato. Forgot to use it.