?? birthday dinner say what ??

[dytyna]

so, it's my friends birthday tomorrow, and i thought i'd make him a nice meal. i told him anything. anything.
and what does he ask me for?

meatloaf.

.....

that's right. meatloaf. Now, the guys never had it before. he's jamaican and has grown up in the city. his mother cooks all sorts of wonderful jerk chickens, cajun/southern-american/caribbean feasts. But he's never had suburban cooking. meatloaf, scalloped potatoes, that sorta stuff.
So the guy asks me for meatloaf.

And how can i say no? He's actually really excited about it. lol.

So, on to my question. i know how to make meatloaf. The kind my mother used to make with a packet of onion soup mix and all that jazz....
but i want to try to spice it up at least a little.
im going to do homeade scalloped potatoes with it, and some sort of veggie dish...
but i have no idea how to jazz up meatloaf. Any creative ways youve done it before? i was thinking of making it with mushrooms(?) but not sure. Perhaps even a mushroom gravy.

Any ideas?

...

i still can't believe he asked me to make meatloaf.
lol.