Meatloaf

So here’s the deal, I hate meatloaf but my husband loves it. He asked me to make meatloaf so that he could have a meatloaf sandwich.  After reading many recipes and reviews, here is a recipe that I came up with for meatloaf.  I was pleasantly surprised and I loved this recipe.  I can actually say that I like meatloaf.

Meatloaf

2 pounds ground beef

1 onion, chopped or 1 Tbls. dry onion

1 tsp. minced garlic

1 Tbls. oil

2 eggs

2 Tbls. Worcestershire sauce

1 cup oats

1 tsp. salt

½ tsp. pepper

Sauce            

1 Tbls. brown sugar

1 tsp. prepared mustard

1/2 cup ketchup

¼ tsp. garlic salt

1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Sauté onion and garlic with the oil (if using dried onions skip this step). In a bowl combine all the meatloaf ingredients. I like to mix my meatloaf in my KitchenAid.  Press meatloaf mixture into a greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hr and 15 min.  Mix the sauce ingredients together and spread evenly on top of the meat loaf the last 10 minutes of the baking time. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.  Serves 6-8

I always make two loaves so that my husband can have a meat loaf sandwich the next day.

Food for thought: For the past couple of weeks I have been focusing on asking the Lord to help ease my burden.  I had a lot on my plate and I wanted help to deal with the stress that comes with being pulled in so many directions.  

Every morning I have been praying to the Lord to help my burdens to be lighter.  Which the Lord did, I have had very little stress with all that I had going and was able to clearly think through everything that I needed to do.  However I was not prepared to have all my burdens eased, even burdens that I didn't realize that I had been carrying.  

Twenty plus years ago someone I loved really hurt me emotionally.  I thought that I was over this experience, I held no grudges towards this person and I now have a great relationship with this person. So it shocked me when my husband pointed out that I truly had not dealt with the emotions and the scars that were left from this experience.  I spent 24 hours crying and confronting the scars that were still in my heart. But when I asked the Lord once again to ease the burden of the pain and hurt that I felt it was gone in an instant.  Not until the burden had been lifted from my heart, did I realized how heavy laden I was because of the hurt I had been carrying. Richard G Scott said, “Complete healing will come through your faith in Jesus Christ and His power and capacity, through His Atonement, to heal the scars of that which is unjust and undeserved. You may find that hard to believe with your current feelings. I have witnessed how the Savior has healed aggravated cases of abuse in that way. Ponder the power of the Atonement.  Pray to understand how it can heal you.”  

 I testify to you that if you will humbly go to the Lord and ask for your burdens to be eased he will ease them, even the burdens you didn't realize you had.