Meatloaf Wellington

Julie's told me her mom use to make meatloaf Wellington for the family when she was a kid. Apparently she stuffed the meatloaf with mushrooms and cheese and then wrapped the thing in Pillsbury croissant dough. Mmmm. It sounds decadent and delicious and silly. I'll have to get in tough with her mother and find out weather she baked it for a while before she put on the dough. Its a little harder to sear out a bunch of ground meat like you can a filet. We used to sear out the whole filet on the grill, put duxelles all over the top and then wrap it so the heat of cooking the pastry would finish off an already cooking piece of meat. A meatloaf Wellington would have to be no so huge I can imagine. So it wouldn't fall in on itself. Meatloaf is not fabulous rare either. But I can imagine a juicy, cheesy meatloaf with crisp pastry. It does sound great. Hearing about it makes me also want to do a beef bourguignon pot pie. I haven't made those in a long time.