So this week was all about soul food for me. Comforting warm, yummy food for the heart and the belly... and I was going to make my Grandmother's recipe for meatloaf. I had it planned out, I bought the ingredients. I had the hamburger in the bowl...but when I was looking for the recipe in my homemade cookbook I made for myself, I found a recipe for brown sugar meat loaf. Now in this homemade cook book, are not just recipe I have already tried but, recipe I want to try. So since I have started this awesome adventure I thought, "What the Hay." So Brown Sugar Meatloaf it is.

Brown Sugar Meatloaf

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup Ketchup

1 lb Hamburger meat

1 tbs Worcestershire Sauce

3/4 cup Milk

2 Eggs

1 1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Pepper

1 tsp Onion Powder 

1/4 tsp Ginger

Quick Oats 

1. Mix Together Brown Sugar and Ketchup and spread on the bottom of the slow cooker.

2. Mix the rest of the ingredients together. Now this part is kind of tricky. The amount of Quick Oats depends on the consistency of the meat mixture. You don't want it to liquidy. It needs to be any a semi damp ball, and that is when you will know you have put enough. I think I probably put in about a cup.

4. Place Mixture over Brown Sugar Ketchup in Slow Cooker

3. Cook on Low 6 hours.

I turned it over because that is where the pretty brown sugar ketchup glazed side was...it was really god=)

Slow Cooker Cheesy Mexican Chicken

Okay Now just as a reminder I am only cooking for two with minimal to no left overs because we don't eat left overs enough, and that just requires me to clean out yucky refrigerators at least once a week. Now on to the recipe.

Cheesy Mexican Chicken

Two Large Frozen Chicken Breasts (I buy chicken breasts frozen in a bag, so I can get out what I need.)

1 can (10-3/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup

1 cup shredded Cheese

1/2 cup milk

1 Packet of Taco Seasoning Mix ( I happened to have the low sodium Old El Paso one so that is what I used.

1. Place the frozen chicken breasts in you slow cooker. (make sure your slow cooker is off because putting frozen meat in a hot slow cooker can make the insert crack.)

2. Put all other ingredients in a bowl and mix together.

Ignore what is in the background my kitchen is a mess.

3. Pour mixture over chicken.

4. I am cooking it on low for 8 hours.

I am going to serve it over rice. But you can serve this in taco's, use it as the filling for enchilada's whatever you desire.