{"id":1591,"date":"2012-01-01T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2012-01-01T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:21:33","slug":"grain-free-meatloaf-comfort-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2012\/01\/01\/grain-free-meatloaf-comfort-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Grain-Free Meatloaf – Comfort Food!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Grainfree<\/a>Meatloaf has always been one of my comfort foods.\u00a0 It can be a meal in one with the vegetables, meat, and sauce on top.\u00a0 To make the traditional meatloaf with breadcrumbs more nutrient dense and make it safe for those who can’t (or don’t want to) eat grains, here’s a version that\u00a0uses almond flour or coconut flour instead of breadcrumbs.\u00a0 Since it tastes just like the traditional meatloaf, my family loves it as much as I do, so I usually make a double recipe.\u00a0 Here’s how I make meatloaf:<\/p>\n

1 pound ground beef,\u00a0local Law Ranch<\/a> grassfed beef
\n1\/2 cup chopped organic onion
\n1\/2 cup chopped organic red or green pepper (farmers market)
\n1\/2 cup chopped organic celery
\n1\/2 cup almond or coconut flour (either one works well)
\n1\/2 cup grated cheese (I use finely shredded parmigiano reggiano)
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt (Celtic Sea Salt)
\n1\/4 teaspoon freshly grated organic black pepper
\n1 teaspoon organic prepared mustard
\n1\/2 cup tomato sauce (Muir Glen organic)
\n2 eggs, from pastured chickens<\/p>\n

Heat oven to 350 F.\u00a0 You can use a loaf pan or an 8 X 8 or 9 X 9 glass dish.\u00a0 When I double the recipe, I bake the meatloaf in\u00a0a 9 X 13 pan.<\/p>\n

Mix the onion, celery, pepper, almond (or coconut)\u00a0flour, salt, black\u00a0 pepper, mustard, shredded cheese, half the tomato sauce, and eggs together.\u00a0 [Note: I don’t usually measure the onion, celery, or pepper.\u00a0 I just chop and estimate.]<\/p>\n

Add the ground beef and mix well.\u00a0 I usually use a plastic food handler glove and mix with my hand.<\/p>\n

Put the mixture in the pan and spread the remaining tomato sauce over the loaf.<\/p>\n

Bake for\u00a01 hour and 10 minutes.\u00a0 Cool slightly (my family usually doesn’t want to wait for it to cool, and it works out fine).<\/p>\n

The amount of tomato sauce can be\u00a0doubled if you like your meatloaf tomatoey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meatloaf has always been one of my comfort foods.\u00a0 It can be a meal in one with the vegetables, meat, and sauce on top.\u00a0 To make the traditional meatloaf with breadcrumbs more nutrient dense and make it safe for those …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,18,21,19,9],"tags":[87,86,39,41,36,32],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-low-carbohydrate","category-organic-food","category-pastured-eggs","category-real-food","category-traditional-food","tag-almond-flour","tag-coconut-flour","tag-farmers-market","tag-grassfed-beef","tag-pastured-eggs-2","tag-recipes-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-pF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}