This is how recipes are passed down in my family

Saturday afternoon, I am on the phone with Nani

me: Nani, what goes in your meatloaf. I've looked all over the internet and these recipes have way too many ingredients in them.

Nani: Well lets see...meat

me: how much?

Nani: well how much meatloaf do you want?

me: enough...how about a 1 1/2 lbs of meat?

Nani: that works. Ok, so meat, crackers, salt, pepper, worshtich... sauce. That's it.

me: awesome. Thanks

Tuesday night, I am again on the phone with Nani

me: ok, now how do you make meatloaf?

Nani: ok, so first you wash your hands and dump everything into a bowl. Oh, and I forgot to tell you an egg.

me: well luckily I bought eggs for something else.

Nani: ok, good. Now smush it all together.

me: well how much of everything?

Nani: ok, one sleeve of crackers, the whole onion...

me: I don't have an onion. You've never mentioned an onion.

Nani: I didn't? Well shoot. Ok, do you have an onion soup packet?

me: As a matter of fact yes.

Nani: ok, use 1/2 of that. That should work.

me: ok, I've got meat, crackers, an egg, onion packet. How much worshtich...sauce?

Nani: well you probably don't need it since you used the onion packet.

me: great.

Nani: ok, now you smush. And that requires actually touching the raw meat.

me: oh, I can touch the meat. I'm so over that now.

Nani: What?!?! That's crazy.
[I should now interject that this used to be a problem for me. Up until very recently, I did not touch raw meat. It was gross and slimey. I have since gotten over it. I have shown that raw meat who is boss]

me: ok, thoroughly smuched together. How long do I cook it?

Nani: well it depends on what shape you mold it into.

me: ok, I'm just going to stick it in for 30 minutes and check on it after that.

Nani: yeah, just cook it until it's done.