News — MashedPotatoes

In a bowl mix together a can of tomato sauce with brown sugar. Whisk until incorporated, set to the side. Rinse and chop the potatoes. Place in the Instant Pot along with garlic cloves, water, and salt. Place a metal rack on top of the potatoes making it as even as possible. Create an aluminum foil pan and place on top of the rack. Then, carefully transfer mixed meat into the foil pan. Shape into a loaf and pour 1/4-1/3 cup of the sweet tomato sauce on top. Close lid making sure the steam valve is closed. Set on “manual”...

The recipe I am sharing with you is one of my family’s all-time favorite comfort foods:  meatloaf served with a side of steaming, buttermilk mashed potatoes.  For us, this is typically a cold-weather recipe, and, since the temperatures dipped this past weekend to give us a first sense of fall, it is exactly what my kids (and husband) asked for when they were all home. The story behind this meatloaf I have been making this recipe for a very long time.  I clipped it (and slightly adapted it) from a magazine about 20 years ago because I was intrigued by...

In a bowl mix together a can of tomato sauce with brown sugar. Whisk until incorporated, set to the side. Rinse and chop the potatoes. Place in the Instant Pot along with garlic cloves, water, and salt. Place a metal rack on top of the potatoes making it as even as possible. Create an aluminum foil pan and place on top of the rack. Then, carefully transfer mixed meat into the foil pan. Shape into a loaf and pour 1/4-1/3 cup of the sweet tomato sauce on top. Close lid making sure the steam valve is closed. Set on “manual”...