A Proverbs 31 Kind of Day

What is "Piquant Sauce?" I don't know! All I know is this:  growing up, whenever we had meatloaf, my mom made "piquant sauce" to put on top of it! I never hear other people talk about their mom's "piquant sauce." Think about it! Do you ever hear, "OH!  I only eat my mom's piquant sauce!" "OH!  They have the BEST piquant sauce ever!" "Excuse me, do you have any piquant sauce?" "You could put some piquant sauce on that -- it'd be great!" Yeah, me either! Do you eat piquant sauce? Have you ever had piquant sauce? Do you even know what piquant sauce is? I looked it up! As in, just today! As in, just a few minutes ago! Here are some of the things I found out about "piquant sauce." Piquant sauce   is a style of cooking used for rabbit, duck, alligator, chicken and seafood A piquant sauce is a spicy sauce sharp in taste; exciting or interesting You may be t...

I grew up with my mom making meatloaf. I'd call it "homemade" meatloaf. What I have learned as I have grown up, everyone has "their" favorite meatloaf and nobody really eats meatloaf made by other people. It's kind of a weird thing to me, but at the same time, I totally understand it. Think about it . . . when you're having company over, do you ever think, "I'll make meatloaf." Nope. I don't! When you're taking a meal to someone recovering from an illness or surgery, do you ever think, "I bet they'll love to have a pan of my meatloaf." Nope. Me either! Meatloaf is incredibly individual, and even familial. My mom's recipe that she gave me is "hers." But truthfully, it's really the recipe from the back of the seasoning packet. Being gluten free has caused some changes in my cooking. One is meatloaf. While I have found gluten free packages of meatloaf sea...