Mmmm...Leftovers

You know the best part of having a roast? Leftovers! You may not agree with me, I used to hate leftover roast. But then we found a few recipes in an old 1950's cookbook that call for leftover roast. One of our favorites is

Meatloaf in a Blanket

• 1 onion chopped
• bacon drippings, or butter, lard, etc.
• 2 cups finely chopped cooked potatoes (right from your crockpot roast)
• 1 1/2 cups chopped cooked beef 
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk (of whatever variety, we do Soy with this recipe)
• Salt and Pepper
• Baking Powder Biscuit dough (made with 2 cups flour)

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F
Brown onion in drippings, add potatoes, mix well. Combine everything else in skillet except dough. Heat thoroughly, making sure egg is cooked.
Roll biscuit dough into rectangle 1/2 inch thick. Shape hot meat mixture into a loaf in the middle of the dough. Draw dough up over mixture to form a roll (one big honking roll). Press edges together. Slash top a few times.
Place on baking sheet and bake 15-20 minutes.
Serve with a Mushroom Gravy


This takes a few times of making it to start making it look pretty. But it is yummy. We will throw in carrots as well if we have some leftover from our roast.

Yes, we now make roast so that we can have leftovers. We also will double to triple this recipe. The part you cook in a skillet, will look sort of like a very large omelet with not enough eggs. Where the name meatloaf came from I don't know. (Except it is meat, in a loaf, hmmmm.) We also like making this for the missionaries if we are feeding them and sending them home with the leftovers. Without the gravy it travels really well and can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner.