I doubt my older sister reads my blog but she would get a giggle out of this. I remember my mom was always trying new recipes and made some strange meat with red sauce and beans. Now from that you may think I'm talking about chili but it wasn't I think squash was involved too. She served it with mashed potatoes. It was awful, and inedible. We piled up our mashed potatoes and used the beans as "clifdivers" and called them bloody divers for the streak of read sauce left on the mashed potatoes. Now mashed potatoes are fun to play with in the kitchen.
How about some meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potato frosting, you can even dye potatoes for different colored "frosting" if you have some fun shaped pans you can make hearts, stars etc. I have even seen it as a April fools cake decorated with peas and "April fools day written in ketchup.
*photo by hhm.
