These mini-meatloaves prove that good things come in small packages; when that package includes both meatloaf and cheese, you can be sure that even the picky eaters will go back for seconds. We dedicate to an LGBT Hero who is said to have been our greatest song writer on the 20th century, Cole Porter. Read about him after the recipe.
Ingredients
1 cup breadcrumbs
¼ cup whole milk
2 lbs ground beef
1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbs smoky paprika
1 onion grated
1 egg
Directions:
Place the hamburger in a large bowl, add the breadcrumbs, Worchestershire sauce, paprika, and one egg. Pour in the ½ cup milk.
Grate the onion into the mix. Then cafefully mix this all together until well blended.
Let sit on the counter while you pre heat the oven to 425°F.
This sitting time allows the mostiure to get into the crumbs.
This also allowed me to cut up the broccolli and drizle oil over. Line two rimed baking sheets with foil. Fill one with the brocccoli florretes, set aside.
When oven is ready, spray a ¾ cup measure then pack with the meat mixture. Use a table knife to run along the edge and plop this on the other baking sheet. This made 8 mini loafs, so space them evenly on the pan.
Place the meat loafs on the top rack in the hot oven for 10 minutes.
Then slide in the broccoli on the lower rack. Re-set the timer for
20 minutes.
This should give you time to clean up and prepare the other vegetable, in this case Mac & Cheese.
Cut up eight slices of cheese into fourths.
In a small bowl mix ½ cup of tomato ketchup with 2 Tbs of mustard and 3 Tbs brown sugar. Stir until well blended.
When the timer goes off, slide out the meat loaves and spoon 2 Tbs of ketchup mix on each, return to oven for 2 more minutes.
Take out the broccolli and place in serving dish. Carefully top each meat loaf with to squares of cheese. Return to oven for 3 minutes or until cheese is well melted.
Remove from oven and allow to rest while fixing the Mac & Cheese.
What a complete comfort meal!
Serving Size: 1 Mini Meat Loaf
- Calories140 * Calories from Fat 80 * Total Fat 8g * Saturated Fat 3 1/2g
- Cholesterol 50mg * Sodium 270mg
So honored to serve this to my Master Indy
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to nurture, assist, and sustain
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Cole Porter
Cole Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) has been considered one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film.
Born to wealth and privilege in Peru Indiana, Porter defied his family's wishes and took up music as a profession. Although classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters of the Broadway musical stage.
Unlike many composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. A serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued successfully to shape American Musical history. This urban gay man had been the toast of society around the world.
Cole was the only surviving child of a wealthy family. His father, Samuel Porter, was a druggist by trade. His mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Omar "J. O." Cole, "the richest man in Indiana", a coal and timber speculator who dominated the family. J. O. Cole built the couple a house on his Peru-area property, known as Westleigh Farms.
His strong-willed mother doted on him. Cole learned the violin at age six, the piano at eight, and wrote his first operetta (with help from his mother) at ten. His father was a shy and unassertive man. While not playing a major role in raising Porter, the father was an amateur poet. No doubt that may have influenced his son's gifts for rhyme and meter. Porter's father was also a talented singer and pianist, but the father-son relationship was not very close.
J. O. Cole wanted his grandson to become a lawyer and sent him to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts in 1905. Porter brought an upright piano with him to school. He quickly found that music, and his ability to entertain, made it easy to make friends. Entering Yale University in 1909, Porter majored in English, minored in music, and also studied French.
In his senior year, he was elected president of the Yale Glee Club and was its principal soloist. Porter wrote 300 songs while at Yale some of which are still being sung.
During college, Porter became acquainted with New York City's gay nightlife, taking the train there for dinner, theater, and nights on the town, before returning to New Haven, Connecticut, early in the morning.
After graduating from Yale, Porter enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1913. He soon felt that law bored him. At the suggestion of the dean of the law school, Cole switched to Harvard's music department, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. His mother did not object to this move, but it was kept a secret from J. O. Cole.
In 1915, Porter's first song on Broadway, "Esmeralda", appeared in the revue Hands Up. The quick success was immediately followed by failure.
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he served in the French Foreign Legion in North Africa and was transferred to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau, teaching gunnery to American soldiers. He had a specially constructed portable piano made for him so that he could carry it on his back and entertain the troops in their bivouacs.
Porter maintained a luxury apartment in Paris, where he entertained lavishly. His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with "much gay and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians and a large surplus of recreational drugs". In 1918, he met Linda Thomas, a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcée eight years his senior. She was beautiful and well-connected socially; the couple shared mutual interests and she became Porter's confidante and companion. The couple married the following year. She was well aware of Porter's homosexuality, but it was mutually advantageous for them to marry.
It brought a respectable heterosexual facade in an era when being gay was not acknowledged. They were genuinely devoted to each other and remained married until her death in 1954.
Meanwhile, Porter's first big hit was the song "Old-Fashioned Garden" from the revue Hitchy-Koo in 1919.
In 1923, Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, and the Porters began living in rented palaces in Venice.It is said that they once hired the entire Ballets Russes to entertain guests, and for a party at Ca' Rezzonico, (which he rented for today's equivalent of $59,000 a month), he hired 50 gondoliers to act as footmen and had a troupe of tightrope walkers perform in a blaze of lights. Amid this extravagant lifestyle, Porter continued to write songs with his wife's encouragement.
In 1923, he collaborated with Gerald Murphy on a short ballet, Within the Quota, depicting the adventures of an immigrant to America who becomes a film star. The work, written for the Ballets suédois, lasts about 16 minutes. Porter's work was one of the earliest symphonic jazz-based compositions, predating George Gershwin's Rhapsody in
At the age of 36, Porter was back on Broadway in 1928 with the musical Paris, his first really big hit. It included his song "Let's Do It" that became a musical standard. Porter was finally accepted into the upper echelon of Broadway songwriters. This was followed by "What Is This Thing Called Love?" which became immensely popular. Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) included "You Do Something to Me", another famous entry into the Great American Songbook.
The New Yorkers (1930) acquired instant notoriety for including a song about a streetwalker, "Love for Sale". The lyric was considered too explicit for radio at the time, though it was recorded and aired as an instrumental and rapidly became a standard. Porter often referred to it as his favorite of his songs.
Next came Fred Astaire's last stage show, Gay Divorce (1932). It featured a hit that became Porter's best-known song, "Night and Day".
1934, producer Vinton Freedley planned a story about a shipwreck and a desert island. For the songs, he decided on Porter. A drastic last-minute rewrite was necessitated by news of a major shipping accident. Nevertheless, the show, “Anything Goes”, was an immediate hit. Porter wrote what many consider his greatest score of this period. The New Yorker magazine said, "Mr. Porter is in a class by himself". Its songs include "I Get a Kick Out of You", "All Through the Night", "You're the Top" (one of his best-known songs), and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow", as well as the title number, “Anything Goes”.
Now at the height of his success, Porter was able to enjoy the opening night of his musicals; he would make a grand entrance and sit in front. Russel Crouse commented, "Cole's opening-night behavior is as indecent as that of a bridegroom who has a good time at his own wedding."
Jubilee (1935), written with Moss Hart while on a cruise around the world, was not a major hit, running for only 169 performances, but it featured two songs that have since become standards, "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Those Things". Red, Hot and Blue (1936), featuring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, ran for only 183 performances and introduced "It's De-Lovely".
Porter also wrote for Hollywood in the mid-1930s. His scores included "You'd Be So Easy to Love" and "I've Got You Under My Skin", and "In the Still of the Night".
Porter also composed the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for an unproduced movie, in 1934, but it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers sang it in the 1944 film Hollywood Canteen. Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and other artists also popularized it in the 1940s.
The Porters moved to Hollywood in December 1935, but Porter's wife did not like the environment. Porter's homosexual peccadillos, formerly very discreet, became less so and she retreated to their Paris house. When his film assignment on Rosalie was finished in 1937, Porter hastened to Paris to make peace with Linda, but she remained cool. Porter returned to New York in October 1937 without her. They were soon reunited by an accident Porter suffered.
In 1937, Porter was riding at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, when his horse rolled on him and crushed his legs, leaving him substantially crippled and in constant pain for the rest of his life.
Though doctors said that his right leg would have to be amputated, and possibly the left one as well, he refused. Linda rushed from Paris to be with him and supported him in his refusal of amputation. He remained in the hospital for seven months before being allowed to go home to his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He resumed work as soon as he could, finding it took his mind off his perpetual pain.
You Never Know (1938), ran for only 78 performances. The score included the hit song "At Long Last Love". This was followed by Leave It to Me! (1938); the show introduced Mary Martin, singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", and "From Now On".
The forties brought some less than stellar shows and the critics did not pull their punches. After two flops, many thought that Porter's best period was over.
In constant pain, Porter made a comeback in 1948 with Kiss Me, Kate. It was by far his most successful show. The production won the Tony Award for best musical (the first Tony awarded in that category), and Porter won for best composer and lyricist. The score includes "Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Wunderbar", "So In Love", "Too Darn Hot", "Always True to You (in My Fashion)", and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare".
His next show, Can-Can (1952), featuring "C'est Magnifique" and "It's All Right with Me", was another big hit.
Porter's wife, Linda, died in 1954. Despite his years of extramarital homosexual relationships, she had been a source of friendship and support, and her death was a blow for Porter. He tended to escape into alcohol and painkillers.
In 1956 his friend Kathern Hepburn asked him to write a special song for her musical version of Philidelphia Story to be called High Society. Porter responded with his last all-time hit: “True Love”.
By 1958, Porter's injuries caused a series of problems. After 34 operations, his right leg had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb. His friend Noël Coward visited him in the hospital and wrote in his diary, "The lines of ceaseless pain have been wiped from his face... I am convinced that his whole life will cheer up and that his work will profit accordingly."
Porter never wrote another song after the amputation and spent the remaining six years of his life in relative seclusion. He told friends, "I am only half a man now." He continued to live in the Waldorf Towers in New York, and he stayed in California during the summers.
Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73, having written more than 800 songs.
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