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Mom’s Pizza Loaf: My mom’s take on meatloaf–a mixture of ground beef, Italian sausage, and pizza seasonings that stuffed with cheese! This Pizza Loaf tastes nothing like traditional meatloaf but just like pizza and is sure to be a hit with your family as much as it is with mine! #SundaySupper

Mom's Pizza Loaf: My mom's take on meatloaf--a mixture of ground beef, italian sausage, and pizza seasonings that stuffed with cheese! ThisPizza Loaf tastes nothing like traditional meatlloaf but just like pizza and is sure to be a hit with your family as much as it is with mine! #SundaySupper

This week, Sunday Supper is all about Mom’s. Not what our mom’s would love for us to make them, but what we remember as a dish associated with our own mom’s. And nothing reminds me more of my childhood dinners around our oak dinner table, than Pizza Loaf.


What you ask, is Pizza Loaf? My mom’s take on meatloaf. In fact, I had never even tasted a tradtional meatloaf until my late 20s. When my mom made meatloaf, she mixed up a mixture of flavorful meat, pizza sauce and stuffed it with gooey cheese and baked smoothered in more pizza sauce and topped with more cheese–sounds pretty awesome, huh? Just look at that cheese oozing out when you slice it!Pizza Loaf: A cheesy stuffed meatloaf that tastes just like pizza.

Dinner at my house as a child was a family event.

We gathered around our large dining room table and fought about where each of us kids got to sit (we had to resort to rotations between the 4 kids between who got to sit by mom and who my dad, etc). We always had to drink milk and dinner was often one of mom’s go-tos like tacos, chicken pot pie, spaghetti with mom’s sauce, pot roast, pizza bread, or Amish chicken.

But we could always count on Pizza Loaf with parsley potatoes and canned green beans.

It was one of my Dad’s favorites. It was one of the kids’ favorites. Heck, I bet it was one of my mom’s favorites, because it made us all happy and is not that hard to make!

Moms Pizza Loaf: My mom's take on meatloaf--a mixture of ground beef, Italian sausage, and pizza seasonings that stuffed with cheese! This Pizza Loaf tastes nothing like traditional meatloaf but just like pizza and is sure to be a hit with your family as much as it is with mine!

You simply mix up the meat with a few seasonings. Flatten out and top with cheese. Roll into shape of loaf. Place on broiler pan and top with additional sauce and cheese.Mom's Pizza Loaf: My mom's take on meatloaf--a mixture of ground beef, Italian sausage, and pizza seasonings that stuffed with cheese! This Pizza Loaf tastes nothing like traditional meatloaf but just like pizza and is sure to be a hit with your family as much as it is with mine! #SundaySupper

My mom and I chuckle about this meal now, as it is one neither one of us have made in nearly a decade–the Pizza Loaf is great, but honestly something we had both forgotten about for years.

Now both of us, like to cook things that are bit lighter, like this Paleo Meatloaf from Nostastic.

But let me tell you, I made this recipe just like Mom and served it up just like Mom would with the parsely potatoes and canned beans and my family RAVED about it!

Every last bit was devoured and they have been begging me to make it again.

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Mom's Pizza Loaf #SundaySupper

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 6 -8
Author A Mind Full Mom

Ingredients

  • 1 pound lean ground beef
  • 1/2 pound Italian sausage I used ground Italian chicken sausage
  • 1 cup pizza sauce divided
  • 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
  • 4 eggs whisked
  • 1 teaspoon oregano
  • 2 tablespoons dried parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • 8 ounces 1 cup shredded or sliced Mozzarella or Provolone cheese, divided

Instructions

  1. Mix meat with eggs, bread crumbs, salt, oregano,parsley, parmesan and 1/3 cup
  2. pizza sauce.
  3. Flatten and top with 2/3 cup mozzarella or provolone cheese.
  4. Roll meat around cheese and shape in loaf.
  5. Place meat on broiler pan or loaf pan and top with remaining sauce and cheese.
  6. Bake at 375 for 1 hour.

Pizza Meatloaf: Cheesy, stuffed meatloaf that tastes just like pizza. I guess it goes to show you, sometimes you don’t mess with the recipes of your childhood. They survived the test of time, because they were family pleasers and typically without fancy ingredients.  I mean take a look at those side dishes–the potatoes are just boiled and then tossed with butter, salt and dried parsley and the green beans are served from the can. But simple sometimes can be best.Mom's Pizza Loaf: My mom's take on meatloaf--a mixture of ground beef, Italian sausage, and pizza seasonings that stuffed with cheese! This Pizza Loaf tastes nothing like traditional meatloaf but just like pizza and is sure to be a hit with your family as much as it is with mine! #SundaySupper

I would love to know, What dish do you associate with your Mom? Check out what my #SundaySupper Family remembers when they think of Mom. There are some great recipes here!

 

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  1. I made an Italian meatloaf a few weeks ago, but your pizza version sounds so much better! Love that you added Italian sausage to the mix!

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  3. Your mom is a freaking genius, Kristen, and you can tell her I said so! I’m so glad you decided to share her pizza loaf.

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  9. You know I’ve never actually made meatloaf, though I’ve thought of trying a variation on i in recent years but this looks tasty. Very creative!

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    • Thanks Maria–it is funny because we didn’t think this was creative at all because we had it weekly 🙂 The first time I saw regular meatloaf, I was like “What is that?!!”

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