lets talk about one of my favorite dishes meatloaf
Oh man.  Your mom must have been a better cook than mine!
I can't answer that for sure but she likes to bake it in the oven with a mix of different peppers and onions some people ever smoked it
my mom put ketchup on the top of the loaf before baking.  I'm telling you, I gagged the whole time I ate it.
lol that's to bad what meat does she use some use pork beef and seafood 
She used beef.  Maybe pork would have been better.  Who created meatloaf, anyway?
well it seems like it was first mentioned in the Roman cookery collection "Apicius" as early as the 5th century.
I believe it's that old.  Lots of time to improve it, but some cooks still haven't!  I think in the US it's more of a southern dish.
it seems like usa have gotten most of the recipes from german-americans
That is my dad's ethnicity, but not my mom's.  Would explain why he always wanted it, and why she couldn't cook it well!