Asian-Inspired Pork Meatloaf/Dumpling Filling

My name is Kylle, and I've been experimenting with food since I started cooking around age ten. My biggest failure was trying to create dessert mashed potato that included cinnamon and sugar. My family still likes to talk about how bad those potatoes were, and tease me about being worried for my next experiment.

I love cooking, though, and I can't stop experimenting more and more as time goes by. And, from what I hear from my gentleman, I shouldn't stop either!

My cooking is a strange combination of Chinese inspiration, random ingredients pieced together, and whatever I decide I want to try. I try to do a lot of fast, easy, and cheap meals, but that so often does not work out. I love complicated flavors and can almost never leave a recipe alone. I doubt this blog will be updated very regularly (I'm not great at habitual things), but I'm going to do my best to put up the best recipes I can come up with. Fair warning - most everything I do involves a lot of guesswork and estimated measurements, but I do my best.

Today, I made an Asian-inspired meatloaf from leftover dumpling pork with no recipe, and it ended up being DELICIOUS! You can either use the entire recipe for the meatloaf, or you can make some dumplings and then the meatloaf from the remains. Remember that the portions are easily altered to taste, and pretty much everything is estimated. Use your good judgement.

Asian-Inspired Pork Meatloaf (and/or Dumpling Filling)

2 lbs ground pork
1 bunch cilantro
6 green onions
3-5 cloves of garlic
1 inch of ginger paste (can use fresh shredded ginger)
~7 generous splashes of soy sauce
~3 generous splashes of sesame oil
~7 generous splashes of white (or rice) vinegar
~3 splashes of red wine vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
5 grinds of fresh ground pepper

Spicy Sauce
~4 tbsp soy sauce
~2 tbsp white or rice vinegar
3 splashes red wine vinegar
2 tsp sriracha
1/2 tsp sesame oil
(Whisk all ingredients together to combine)

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Mix all ingredients together. Form the mixture into a loaf, or put into a normal loaf pan. Cover with the sauce and put into the oven for 20-30 minutes depending on size. (I used only about 1/3 to 1/2 the mixture since I had made dumplings and fried rice a few days earlier.) Make sure your meatloaf is cooked through, and then enjoy with the remaining sauce. I baked potatoes and poured a little of the extra sauce on top with some melted cream cheese and fresh ground pepper.

I hope you enjoy this, and I look forward to sharing more with you!