Foods that Start with M

Think of a giant, rectangular meatball. It usually has an egg added along with some type of extender such as rolled oats or bread crumbs, and most cooks add their own extras such as onions, garlic, mushrooms, tomato sauce, or even grated zucchini to hide the veggies from picky eaters. It's a recipe designed to stretch a pound of inexpensive meat to enough to feed a large family. I always used the recipe from the Quaker Oats box. My mom's recipe called for equal parts ground beef and ground pork, tomato juice, chopped onions, crushed saltine crackers and salt and pepper. It was terrible right out of the oven, but it made really good sandwiches the next day when cold, with thick slices put between two slices of white bread smeared with lots of Miracle Whip and plenty of dill pickles. Ah, the good ol' days of the 1960s when we thought anything Mom made was good for us.