Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 1 ⁄2 cups marinara sauce
- 1 ⁄4 cup diced red onion
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ⁄2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 2 tsp garlic minced
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 ⁄2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- oregano
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a 9″x 5″ loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Grab a large bowl, mix the ground beef, 1 cup of the marinara sauce, diced red onion, eggs, Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning, and salt and pepper. Use your hands. Getting messy is swell!
- Fill loaf pan with the meatloaf mixture, patting with your hands to form an even top.
- Bake uncovered for 45 minutes.
- Remove loaf from oven and then top with the remaining 1⁄2 cup of marinara sauce, and all of the mozzarella cheese. Return to oven and bake an additional 30 minutes (Your meat thermometer (you have one, right?) should register 165 degrees.
- Drain fat from pan.
- Let the loaf rest 10 minutes
- Sprinkle with oregano (or use a decorative sprig bit) and cut 8 equal slices.
- Eat it.
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Brian Gerard (Lewandowski) writes books critics call "aggressively adequate"—better than "aggressively terrible" but somehow more concerning. He once traded a MetroCard for a pitchfork on a subway platform and now uses it exclusively for dramatic pointing. He lives on a farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia with three disappointed potted plants, a judgmental pig named Trouble McFussbucket, and a wife who smiles politely at his life choices.
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His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his well-being). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting for an agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
See my Amazon author page and buy my books.
His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his well-being). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting for an agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
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