Italian Meatloaf

This Italian Meatloaf Recipe is just the thing you need on a cold day when you're looking for something hearty to warm you up! With ground beef, mild Italian sausage, spices and shredded cheese it's also the perfect addition to leftover meals the next day. The preparation for this meatloaf recipe doesn't take all that long, pop it in the oven and dinner is ready is about an hour. Janet's Appalachian Kitchen is a recipe site where you are going to find plenty of good home cooked recipes. Janet, the creator of this recipe site, has been sharing recipes since 2013. She says that cooking has been a part of her life since she was old enough to stand on a stool and stir a pot of something helping out with her Grandmothers cooking. She is a cancer survivor and appreciates the simple things in life more than ever which much sums up her cooking style as well. On the site, you will find all sorts of delicious recipes from main dish recipes, appetizer recipes, soup recipes, crock pot recipes and more. On the site, you will also find Janet's step by step video recipe tutorials which are a great opportunity to get a quick recipe cooking lesson in the privacy of your home.

Most of us have heard of a meatloaf recipe at some point in our lives. Meatloaf is a simple recipe that typically includes ground meat that is mixed with other ingredients. The ingredients are then formed into a loaf shape and then baked or smoked. Meatloaf is shaped and formed by either cooking it in a loaf pan or forming it by hand on a flat baking sheet. Meatloaf is usually made from ground beef, but you will also find it made with pork, lamb, venison, veal, poultry and seafood. The origins of meatloaf are European, with meatloaf of minced meat being mentioned in the famous Roman cookery collection. The meatloaf recipe is a traditional Scandinavian, German and Belgian dish, and it is a cousin to the Dutch meatball. The American meatloaf recipe has its recipe origins in scrapple, which is a mixture of ground pork and cornmeal that has been served by German-Americans in Pennsylvania since the Colonial times. Although the American version of meatloaf did not appear in cookbooks until about the late 19th century.

The creator of this Italian Meatloaf Recipe baked her meatloaf recipe in her Portuguese stoneware. What sort of baking dish do you use for your meatloaf recipes? Stoneware is the ceramic that is made out of naturally occurring stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay. Typically stoneware is dense, impermeable and hard enough that it resists scratching which differs from porcelain because it is more opaque, and normally only partially vitrified. Stoneware is usually grey colored or brownish because of impurities in the clay which are used, and it is for normally glazed. Stoneware can be either once-fired or twice-fired. With the maximum firing temperatures varying significantly. To produce a better quality fired glaze finish on the stoneware piece, typically twice-firing can be used. You will find the finishes and the artwork used on the finished stoneware pieces varying greatly depending on the country that it was created in. You will find stoneware from different countries including Portugal, England, China and America. You will find beautiful examples of stoneware that date back thousands of years that still exist today.