Mini Foods

January's theme was mini foods.  Honestly, I mostly chose this because I really wanted to make my new favorite meatloaf recipe, and I like cooking it in muffin tins so you can make extra and freeze the amount your family will eat for later.  I decided mini-cornbread muffins were also appropriate.
The meatloaf is a Test Kitchen recipe, altered by my mother-in-law.  Here's a link to my google doc with her edits.  The glaze is sooo good and the meatloaf is especially tender and moist because of the secret ingredient- gelatin.  Weird eh?  If you're going to use the muffin tins, make sure you use extra lean ground beef, otherwise you will be super grossed out by the congealed fat that will appear on the surface.

The cornbread muffins are from The Bread Bible - I've really liked this cookbook so far.
You can see the changes I made at my note at the very bottom.

Melissa outdid herself and made mini quiches and sweet potato fries.  Both of which were delicious!




Lindsay cheated and bought her mini sesame seed cheesecakes from Les Madeleines.  I thought they were good, but I don't think anyone else was crazy about the sesame after-taste.  (I did have a cold though and was super congested, perhaps I didn't get the full taste).