The weight of the years

I only worked until 3 am -- the exhaustion and eyestrain and the beginnings of artist's cramp in my right hand just became too much. *sigh* What a wimp I'm becoming in my old age. Fifteen years ago I would have pulled a 24 hour shift without even breaking a sweat.

I uploaded the pages I'd finished (9) and sent my editor an email stating that the rest of the pages would be done by Saturday afternoon, since it turns out that I promised him the issue "by the end of the week", which could arguably be Saturday. He's okay with that.

Off to Safeway in a few minutes to pick up meatloaf fixin's and some other groceries. No sign of George's brother yet, and he was supposed to come by for 1 pm. Perhaps he's forgotten, or is too sick to come because of the new medications he's on, and since he doesn't have a phone there's not much chance he's going to get in touch with us if that's the case.

In any case... yeah. Meatloaf tonight.

Oh, and when I was going through my cookbooks yesterday I found three real gems from the 1950's. More on that later.

Especially for...

I saw this and immediately thought of you, bodi_kat.

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Meatloaf and a 50's flashback

The meatloaf is almost done, and it smells gooooooooooood. We'll be having it with gravy, rice, and mixed veg.

A couple of posts back I mentioned some cookbooks from the 1950's that I'd run across. They're from Good Housekeeping, and some pages from Good Housekeeping's Ten P.M. Cook Book are under the cut. Be warned: they are not for the faint of heart.

( I can't believe what they're eating... )

If anyone's interested, I might post more pages, or pages from the other two books in the series that I happen to have in my possession.

Meatloaf report

We just ate some of the meatloaf, and it was marvelous. Makes me wonder why I haven't bothered to make that particular dish in almost ten years.

Yes, ten years. At least. I think I'll be making it more often from now on.

The recipe:

2 beaten eggs
4 tablespoons ketchup
3 large dollops of HP Sauce
1 packet onion soup mix

Stir these ingredients together, then add:

1 kg (2.3 lbs) lean ground beef
1/3 cup oatmeal (or more until desired consistency is reached)

Mix thoroughly. Divide meat between two 9"x5" loaf pans and bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.

( For those of you who actually care, a picture. Yes, a picture of my meatloaf. So sad. )