Random, but tasty, FYI

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr for the NYTimes

Did you know? Yum! Read upon the Serious Eats site today:

National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
We're declaring Thursday, October 18 "National Meatloaf Appreciation Day" to celebrate the great variety and limitless potential of this humble main course!

Which makes the recent photo of newly-arrived in NYC (and using of one Honey Locust Farm House's product line) chef Fabio Trabocchi so appropriate...in the NYTimes this past Wednesday. Make your own diced-not-ground meatloaf using his adapted recipe and marvel at your own creation with the attentive eye of an artist bent on limitless potential. No dice? Leave meatloaf as the old-school wonder that it is, then, and invite me over for leftover sandwiches.

Mom, this was one of the first dishes I can recall making... Thank you for letting me get out my kid energy in the all-too-gross-yet-wonderful hand mixing of ground chuck, eggs, catsup, and dehydrated onion. Cold hands, warm belly.