Boston Market Meatloaf / Lame BS Outing email

Corey is trying to get me to think about certain things involving nakedness: I DON'T THINK SO!!!!

Hey, I got another weird-sounding email from the usual suspect about the Bible Study outing: Dearest Beautiful, Good David Fellowship:

This Friday, Sept. 29th, is sweet "Bible Study Group Outing Night." What will you wear? Where will you go? Check with your group and go, go, go. Say YES, I love Jesus and I love, love, love my Bible Study group. Hooray for happiness! Hooray for Christian memories!

Randal's group and Billy's group will be going to Moxie's Restaurant in Richmond at 7:30pm. Wide, open arms to other groups who wish to join too.

At least her P.S. about some United States meeting on the future of the Association of North American Chinese Evangelical Free Churches sounds normal... and so does her email about birthday pictures! o_O


Boston Market Meatloaf

In the early 90s, Boston Chicken was on a roll. The home meal replacement chain's stock was soaring and the lines were filled with hungry customers waiting to sink their teeth into a serving of the chain's delicious rotisserie chicken. So successful was the chain with chicken that the company quickly decided it was time to introduce other entrée selections, the first of which was a delicious barbecue sauce-covered ground sirloin meatloaf. But offering the other entrées presented the company with a dilemma: what to do about the name. The bigwigs decided it was time to change the name to Boston Market, to reflect a wider menu. That meant replacing signs on hundreds of units and retooling the marketing campaigns.

That name change, plus rapid expansion of the chain and growth of other similar home-style meal concepts sent the company into a tailspin. By 1988, Boston Market's goose was cooked: the company filed for bankruptcy. Soon McDonald's stepped in to purchase the company, with the idea of closing many of the stores for good, and slapping Golden Arches on the rest. But that plan was scrapped when, after selling many of the under-performing Boston Markets, the chain began to fly once again. Within a year of the acquisition, Boston Market was profitable, and those meals with the home-cooked taste are still being served at over 700 Boston Market restaurants across the country.

1 cup tomato sauce
1½ tablespoon Kraft barbecue sauce
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1½ lbs 10% fat ground sirloin
6 tablespoon all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon onion powder
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
dash garlic powder

Preheat oven to 400°F. Combine the tomato sauce, barbecue sauce, and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat the mixture until it begins to bubble, stirring often, then remove it from the heat.

In a large bowl, add all but 2 tablespoon of the tomato sauce to the meat. Use a large wooden spoon or your hands to work the sauce into the meat until it is very well combined. Combine the remaining ingredients with the ground sirloin -- flour, salt, onion powder and ground pepper. Use the wooden spoon or your hands to work the spices and flour into the meat.

Load the meat into a loaf pan (preferably a meatloaf pan with two sections which allows the fat to drain, but if you don't have one of those a regular loaf pan will work). Wrap foil over the pan and place it into the oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, take the meatloaf from the oven, remove the foil and, if you aren't using a meatloaf pan, drain the fat.

Using a knife, slice the meatloaf all the way through into 8 slices while it is still in the pan. This will help to cook the center of the meatloaf. Pour the remaining 2 tablespoon of sauce over the top of the meatloaf, in a stream down the center. Don't spread the sauce. Place the meatloaf back into the oven, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes or until it is done. Remove and allow it to cool for a few minutes before serving. Makes 4 servings.