| 1 1/2 lbs | ground beef |
| 1/2 lb | ground pork |
| 2 | eggs |
| 1/2 cup | bread crumbs (i used italian flavored crumbs) |
| 1/2 | green pepper, minced |
| 1 stalk | celery minced |
| 1 1/2 tsp | salt |
| 1/2 tsp | pepper |
| worcestershire sauce to taste | |
| the surprise |
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix everything well, form into loaf in a baking pan. Embed one of the following items of your choice: 1 medium peeled zuchinni, 1 peeled banana, 1 hot dog, 4 small breakfast sausage links, 1/2 cup corn, 4 whole mushrooms, 4 peeled laughing cows. Bake 1 hour 15 min.
We blind taste-tested 4 different gravy mixes. It was supposed to be mushroom gravy but two brands didn't have a mushroom flavor. We added 1/4 lb sliced, fresh mushrooms to each recipe. SAMPLE A won hands down.
| Codename | Brand | Yumminess Rating (1=delicious, 5=lobdel) |
| SAMPLE A | Knorr "Classic Brown Gravy Mix" | 1.8 |
| SAMPLE B | Schilling "Mushroom Gravy Mix" | 2.2 |
| SAMPLE C | Lawry "Brown Gravy Mix" | 4.5 |
| SAMPLE D | Crown Colony "Mushroom Gravy Mix" | 4.1 |