Meal No. 809: Lamb Meat Loaf

In the spirit of the Rosh Hashanah celebration of the Jewish New Year, it seemed fitting to offer up a lamb dish that was, well, at least sort of round. That means for last night's supper I perhaps repeated all-too-quickly the wonderful lamb meat loaf recipe using that terrific Tupelo Honey Cafe cookbook, a gift of my sister Allison.

Packed with finely-diced onion and shiitake mushroom that's been sautéed...

...plus a mix of other simple but good ingredients, this is one fine meat loaf. I made true homemade mashed potatoes and also offered up a mess of green beans to go with it. The challah loaf I made earlier yesterday afternoon was a welcome but rare addition of bread with this meal.

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"Lamb and Multi-Mushroom Meat Loaf," in Tupelo Honey Cafe: Spirited Recipes from Asheville's New South Kitchen, by Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (2011), p. 150.