Hometown Buffet Meatloaf Recipe
If you have followed SoCal Field Trips for sometime now, you may have noticed that something is missing! As a lifestyle blog I feature all sorts of activities, crafts, restaurants and more.
However, very seldom do I feature a recipe. I don’t like to cook. Rather, I just don’t like to cook small meals.If you ask me to cook for a large group (10+ people), I will make a feast. But when I have to make dinner for my own family, I simply cringe. I get stuck, I stare at the fridge and then eventually go out to eat.Thankfully, last Thursday when I was in one of those “I don’t know what to cook” moods, we headed to HomeTown Buffet in Laguna Niguel for dinner.Now through March 26, 2015, Thursdays nights is VeggieTales Night at HomeTown Buffet!Every Thursday, kids visiting from 5 to 8 p.m.
Receive a free VeggieTales themed Character Mask including games, and coloring fun featuring Bob the Tomato, Larry The Cucumber and Phillipe Pea.Each character mask includes a $2 off coupon on the purchase of the new VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark DVD, which is available at major retailers starting on March 3, 2015.My children had a blast making their Larry The Cumber masks!HomeTown Buffet Family Night makes for a great outing when mom or dad need a night off from cooking. Plus children get all you-can-eat for only $1.99!After Field Trip Boy and Field Trip Girl made their masks, we headed over to the buffet area to make our plates.
I enjoyed some fresh vegetables and a crisp salad, while my children created their own works of art from HomeTown Buffet’s wide variety of food selections. Field Trip Girl stayed true to her nature and selected a pepperoni and cheese pizza and carrots. Field Trip Boy got a bit more creative and tried HomeTown Buffet’s mashed potatoes, tacos, a sliver of roast beef from the carvery station and a few of their other tasty side dishes.For desert, I had a sample from HomeTown Buffet’s new line of Cinnabon treats and my kids opted for ice cream.
They are traditionalists! The next time I am at HomeTown Buffet I want to try their classic Blue Raspberry, Cherry or Coca Cola Icee. It reminds me of my younger days!Now I have the pleasure of sharing with you all that HomeTown Buffet and VeggieTales has to offer through a giveaway!In honor of Lent, HomeTown Buffet is offering their best catches of the season with a special Seafood Fridays menu. Every Friday night, starting on February 20, guests may enjoy an assortment of seafood options including Popcorn Shrimp, Butterfly Shrimp, Baked Fish, Garlic and Italian Herb Fish, Fried Fish, Southern Fried Fish (Ryan’s), and Atlantic Salmon (Old Country Buffet and HomeTown Buffet).I am hosting a giveaway for one lucky winner to win 2 tickets to enjoy Seafood Fridays at Hometown Buffet.Secondly, I am doing another giveaway to win 1 copy of the movie VeggieTales Beauty and the Beet. My kids watched it over President’s Day weekend and thought it was cute!Rules: US Residents Only. No purchase necessary to enter. Two winners will be randomly selected via RaffleCopter and notified via email.
Winner must respond within 48 hours to claim the prize or a new winner will be chosen via RaffleCopter. The tickets will be shipped directly from the sponsor.Good luck!JilleenDisclosure: We received a complimentary meal at HomeTown Buffet to help facilitate this post. All opinions are 100% our own.
My wife and I were driving through Manchester, Connecticut last Friday, kinda-sorta looking for a place to have supper, when we happened to notice a Hometown Buffet. When Lynnafred was a tyke, there was a Hometown Buffet in Enfield and Friday nights were Hometown Buffet nights.
Hometown Buffet Meatloaf Recipe From Scratch
The food was not horrendous, little Lynnafred could always find something she liked on the steam tables, and - best of all - it was cheap to feed a kid there (they used to charge $1 per year of an under-8-year-old kid's age. Hell of good deal.). There's no way for me to gently segue into a description of the food here so I'll just get right to it.
Hometown Buffet Recipes
The front and center table has always featured the Hometown Buffet staples: Meat loaf, oven-roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, mac and cheese, baked potatoes, yeast rolls, and cornbread. Mass-market mac and cheese is far too salty for my present tastes, which is just as well because the edges were drying out and slightly darkened as though it had been made a while ago and finally made it to the table. I took a chicken wing and a small scoop of potatoes which was an immediate cause for regret. The spuds had developed a skin and a long sheet of it lifted along with scoop. No gravy for me, either, since I couldn't decide whether to take some of the thick grey part or watery brown part.
The meat loaf must have been pretty good though, because there were nothing but crumbs in the pan, and as soon as more would come out it was immediately scarfed up by hungry (and probably undiscriminating) hoards. In all fairness, the rolls and cornbread were decent. Finding something to drink was even harder than finding a clean fork. I poured a sip's worth of iced tea so I could see if it was sweetened or not.
I never found out, since the tea smelled as if it were brewed from used toilet paper. 'Filtered water' must have been filtered though a jug of bleach. Perhaps, though, this is a characteristic of the water in Manchester because all the water-based beverages available had that bleachy chlorine flavor hanging over every sip. Luckily, there was chocolate milk.
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(In the background is a view of Maryanne's plate as she attempts more or less successfully to rip her cut-resistant chicken into bite-sized pieces with a dull knife.). Many of the staff were completely unprofessional, loudly chatting with each other about the drinking they planned to to after work as they were setting out food at the steam tables, customers milling around them. They made no attempt to censor any of their profanity-laced language, even around the kids.
(A notable exception to this was the young woman clearing plates from our table, who was pleasant, friendly, and patient even to the most difficult patron despite being responsible for busing tables across half of the dining floor. We gave her a great tip. She deserved every penny.).