For dinner I made Turkey Couscous Meatloaves. This is one of many recipes that I find when perusing the vast depths of the internet instead of doing various relatively productive things. I don't typically have an interest in anything named "meatloaf," or anything that is made primarily of meat, or anything that is made of turkey meat, but something about this appealed to me (probably the bacon and the glaze... more the fact that there IS a glaze rather than what the glaze is...) and for some reason, I happened to have a pound of ground turkey in the freezer, although I can't remember what possessed me to buy such a thing.
This was easy to make. Granted, I did not shape any meatloaves, nor did I even defrost the meat. That is not something I want to stick my hands in. But that is why I have a live-in sous chef. (Come to think of it, I did not chop the onions, I did not chop the sage... hmm, what DID I do?)
The cooked couscous helped to give the loaf more substance while the zucchini kept it very moist. The bacon and glaze (essentially a barbecue sauce) gave it flavor, which ground turkey does not really possess on its own.
In an effort to make eating a pile of meat more appealing to me, I roasted some asparagus with a spray of olive oil, plus salt and pepper. My oven was happy to multitask and waste less energy. The asparagus was pretty good although it has been sitting in my fridge for several days. I am sure looking forward to some fresh asparagus from a closer location than Mexico.
This recipe makes 4 loaves, and as there are only two of us, and I don't eat piles of meat often, I froze the other two. I expect that they can be reheated in the oven and with a thermometer it would be easy to determine when they were done. It will be nice to reach in and pull those out on a busy, exhausting day. That is what the freezer is for. After those two are gone, I might make this again, or maybe down the shore this summer for the family.
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