I took out some ground beef to defrost earlier with the plan to make nachos for dinner, but decided I really didn't want nachos in the end. I didn't want pasta because I had pasta last night. I didn't have potatoes or rice. Just quinoa. Quinoa and ground beef seemed like an odd paring to me until I went to yummly.com which allows you to put in what ingredients you want to be in a dish and it gives you a bunch of options. A quinoa chili came up, which I considered, but was lacking most of the ingredients. Then I found one for a quinoa meatloaf. I wasn't even sure if I liked meatloaf, but I didn't see why I wouldn't.
I played with the recipe a little because it looked kind of boring. For the vegetables I used leeks, red pepper and (frozen) corn because that is all I had. I fried up the leeks and red peppers with garlic. I put the corn, still frozen, directly into the ground beef. I had cut the recipe in half because of the amount of ground beef I had so guessed for the ketchup and worchestershire sauce measurements, and I used 1 egg. I put salt, pepper, a little cumin, chili powder, basil, thyme and tarragon in the meat mixture for the spices. To finish off the meat mixture, I shredded in some cheddar cheese. If I make this again, I'll put more cheese in because the bites that had a little cheese were delicious!
I took it out at 30 minutes and then let it sit for a bit, but decided it wasn't done. I put it back in for 10 more minutes and when I took it out again I could tell it looked done. It was nice a firm. It was pretty delicious!
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