Turkey Meatloaf & Crash Hot Potatoes

Have you visited The Pioneer Woman's website or seen her show on The Food Network?  If not, go there! See it! She has awesome recipes and her blog/website is really fun to read.

Okay, now on to the food.  As a follow up to the eggplant post, last nights dinner included the delicious Gratin accompanied by turkey meatloaf and my attempt at making Pioneer Woman's Crash Hot Potatoes.  The meatloaf turned out delightful.  I always make beef meatloaf and this was the first time I tried it with turkey.  It was really good! Healthier for you in that turkey meat has less fat and calories, it's a great alternative.  I'll start with the meatloaf recipe which I slightly adapted from Cooking Light's version of Turkey Mini Meatloaves.

Turkey Meatloaf
Makes 5 mini loaves

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups chopped onion (I used sweet onion)
About 1/2-3/4 cup Italian breadcrumbs
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
2 1/2 teaspoons Worcester sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 eggs
1 1/4 lbs lean ground turkey
1/2 cup ketchup divided
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce (I used Tabasco)

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 400.
Saute onion on stove until soft.  Mix onion with next 7 ingredients through eggs with the turkey in a large bowl.  Stir in half the ketchup.  Form mixture into mini loaves and place on cookie sheet or jelly roll pan coated with cooking spray.  I made about five loaves of equal size.  Mixture will be very moist.  Combine remaining ketchup with hot sauce and brush mixture over each loaf. 
Bake loaves in oven for about 35-40 minutes or until internal temp reaches at least 165 degrees.


Now on to the potatoes! I saw the recipe for Crash Hot Potatoes and thought YUM! I used regular red potatoes.  I think I should have used the petite red potatoes instead.  I found that after I boiled the potatoes they were really hard to mash on the oily sheet, they slipped and slid around.  What ended up happening is we had a mess of mashed up potato that I baked anyways and it turned out great.  So even if a recipe doesn't come out as it should look, doesn't mean it wont be delish!!!

My Crash Hot Potato Mess

Crash Hot Potatoes

Ingredients:

As many potatoes as you would like to make
Olive oil
salt
pepper
herb of choice (I used rosemary)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450.

Bring pot of water to boil and add potatoes.  Boil until they are soft or fork tender.

Drizzle cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with olive oil generously.  This step is key so the potatoes don't stick at the end.

Once potatoes are done, place on cookie sheet and mash down with potatoe masher.  They are supposed to somewhat maintain form held together by the skin.  As you can see from my picture it was a mess! But I forged on and still made the recipe with my poorly mashed potatoes.

After you have successfully mashed to your hearts desire, sprinkle potatoes with salt, pepper and your herb.  Bake in oven for about 25 minutes or until crispy on top.  Enjoy!