This recipe for easy skillet meatloaf was born by virtue of the fact that I recently got myself a new cast iron skillet. In my house, any new kitchen item needs to be inaugurated with a seriously good recipe, and when you are welcoming something as substantially important as a cast iron skillet, that is even more important. As much as I love cooking up a mess of eggs in a frying pan, I needed something more dramatic. More beloved. More memorable. And so I took my favorite meatloaf recipe, which is filled with a mixture of beef and pork and veal and carrots and scallions and parsley and other good things, and I did a skillet version. And oh my goodness. Let's just say that the new skillet was successfully inaugurated, and I may never go back to the loaf pan version again, for multiple reasons. Want to know what those reasons are? Let's make it!