NOTES:  This is an excellent venison meat loaf recipe and you can easily substitute ground beef if Bambi sensitive!  I originally did this recipe with 1 pound of sausage but cut the amount back to 1/2 lb. of hot sausage and updated the recipe ingredients listing.  There is just enough heat in this recipe to make you think you are down in Louisiana Cajun country but not to the point where your nose gets athletic on you.  You can just as easily do this one in a bread or loaf pan and add half the meat mixture and then layer with the veggies and the cheese and add the remaining meat mixture and top with your favorite BBQ sauce or ketchup based sauce.  If rolling like a log, be sure and tightly close each end of the log otherwise some of the cheese will melt out which it did on this one but not too much.  The veggie mixture that I used is pretty much standard for a lot of my recipes where bell pepper, mushrooms, garlic and green onions are required.  I added a couple tablespoons of white sugar to my standard BBQ sauce recipe to sweeten it up a notch for this recipe.  You can easily let this recipe sit for about 25 to 30 minutes before slicing into some magnum size thick slices since the Pyrex dish holds the heat for a long time.  The last pixs posted were taken right before I sliced the remaining venison stuffed meat log and placed into containers for later usage and the venison stuffed meat log did slice much better yet was still warm enough to eat.

This recipe was inspired by Capt. Robert Webster of Hamlet NC who cooks/smokes the venison log on his UDS aka Ugly Drum Smoker while he is smoking other meats and uses the venison log as an appetizer since it comes off the UDS much sooner than other meats.  Robert lines a meat loaf pan with wax paper and places one half of the meat mixture in the pan, mash it down in the center to form a cavity and adds the veggie mixture and then the cheese and tops with the remaining meat mixture.  He then removes the log from the pan and with the aid of the wax paper shapes the meat mixture into a round log and places the formed log  in on his UDS (without the wax paper).  Six of one and half a dozen of another on the assembly procedures.

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My bride rolled the venison mixture into a log for me after seeing me fumble with the freezer wrap paper which I used instead of wax paper.  This is a very delicious and moist meat loaf recipe with excellent texture and eye appeal.  View my Wild Bill's Meat Loaf recipe which is similar to this one. 

Web published by Bill aka Mickey Porter 05-20-13.

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