The rice and bean dish was from this recipe, modified a tad.  I used chicken stock and went half black beans and half red, and added a good squeeze or two of lime juice from a green bottle.  Sue me.

The meatloaf was an experiment:  Half pork and half beef, with a big slug of mayo and milk, lots of bread crumbs, 2 eggs, ketchup, bbq sauce, and minced onions, garlic, carrots, and celery that had been sweated down in olive oil.  It ended up disconcertingly homogeneous and colored strangely but it tasted pretty good.