House Butch
Life with Mrs. deWinter

Mrs. deWinter isn't home yet. She works long hours. She works hard for a living. She says, "Who needs a wife when I've got a house butch."

Tonight, she's having meatloaf, mushrooms in brown sauce, and steamed broccoli for dinner.

Polish House Butch Meatloaf

olive oil
onions, garlic, celery
salt, pepper, fines herbes, ground mustard, sage, italian seasoning
Worcestershire sauce

Saute the onions, garlic and celery slowly in olive oil until the onions are transparent. Add all the dry seasonings early so that their flavors are taken into the vegetables. When the onions are transparent, add the Worcestershire sauce, stir a few times, and take off the fire.

two egg yolks
1 lb. ground turkey
1 lb. ground beef
bread crumbs

Now about the bread crumbs. Mrs. deWinter will never eat an entire loaf of bread. In all these years we've been together, I've never seen her do it. It's not even about not liking the heel of the bread. Frankly, I don't know what it's about. I just know that she, who loves bread, never ever ever eats the last few pieces, whether its a staple sandwich bread or a fancy sourdough from the bakery. So, the birds and squirrels are lucky around here, and recipes that call for bread crumbs are my friend. I just put several pieces of bread in the oven when it's preheating, and by the time I'm ready for them, they're dry and crumble like the proverbial cookie.

Mrs. deWinter's charming quirks aside, mix all ingredients with your hands (yes, the hands are very important here). Put into an ungreased baking pan (a loaf pan is too small). With your wooden spoon, make several indentations in the top of the dish.

butter
1 tbs. flour
3/4 cup heavy cream

Cook at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes, basting several times with butter. Just before the loaf is done, sprinkle with the flour and spoon the cream onto the top of the loaf.

Mushrooms in Brown Sauce

coarsely chopped mushrooms
5 tbs. butter
salt, pepper
1 and 1/2 cups brown sauce
1/4 cup sherry or Madeira or Merlot

While your brown sauce is warming, saute the mushrooms slowly in the butter. [Make your own brown sauce or use any vegetable or soup or beef broth in your cupboard.] When your mushrooms are soft and dark, season with salt and pepper and combine with brown sauce and sherry.

Broccoli

No brainer. Steam it. Embellish with lemon juice.

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