I really wish I had a better picture of these suckers. Let’s just review… they are meatloaves stuffed with a homemade beer cheese, topped with bacon and an awesome glaze and then grilled. What could possibly be bad? Except my picture of them, of course. You see, I had people waiting to eat and well photography was just low on my priority list at that moment.
I made these during our family vacation this summer. It was actually kind of a staycation since we
were all at my parents’ place. We had an
absolute blast playing in and around the water, boating, relaxing, laughing,
eating, swimming, floating, playing bags, tea parties, kiddo dance parties,
etc. We also had the third annual Lake
House Chef Challenge, but that is another post another time. I have to share some of my favorite photos
from the week.
My mom and I figured that we served about 400 meals that
week. If you know us you know that it
was not frozen pizza and premade stuff.
We like to make things difficult apparently. Below is the menu for the week. You will notice that a lot of the items are
featured on this site. We had a big
folder with all of the recipes so we were ready to go each day.
In case you were wondering, this is what one of the refrigerators looked like. I am sure my mom will be thrilled I am sharing this.
We pretty much stuck to the menu! The lake is about 15 miles from a decent grocery store so we had to be REALLY prepared. We also wanted to make as many things ahead of time as possible. One of the things we made in advance was this dish. I made the beer cheese and meatloaf mixture earlier in the month, assembled them, wrapped them individually in plastic wrap and stuck them in the freezer. I let them defrost in the fridge and then topped them with the bacon and made the glaze the day we grilled them up. It worked out really well.
FYI…. The beer cheese is pretty awesome as a dip with pretzels.
