Mexican-Style Meatloaf, a fiesta for your mouth

Hola!! :)
in honor of my amazing dinner (yes, I tooted my own horn, toot toot.) I made last night, I had to open with a little espanol... are you fluent or semi-fluent in spanish? I took up to Spanish 5 in highschool and two years in college, I feel like I lost a lot of it once I stopped using it... they say if you dont use it, you lose it --- its true. I wish I could brush back up on it, I now am very fluent in "spanglish" ;)

Thanks for your sweet feedback on my post yesterday, I wasn't sure how it would go over, it wasnt my usual post, it was a little deep :D but I get kinda inspirational every now and again -- haha!

One last thing before I share my meatloaf that was muy excellente ;) --- Hubby and I took Brutus to the vet last night for a couple boosters and guess how much the little beast weighs??? 46.4 lbs!!! he is just a little over 4mos. old... UNBELIEVABLE! I am sucha proud mama ;) and Rich is a proud poppa... oh my goodness... can you imagine how ridic we will be when we have children?? RIDIC. lol

our baby when we first got him <3

our "baby" napping last night after the vet <3

I almost cried leaving him this morning --- I am headed home/Milwaukee for the weekend and I hate saying goodbye to him and my hubby... why am I such a dork? hahaha! I know I'll see them Sunday, silly silly.

Ok, ok... enough of my ramblings... here is the yummy recipe!! Let me know if you try this combo ;)

Mexican Meatloaf

[[ Meatloaf monster ready for the oven. ]]

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. grass-fed beef (or other lean ground meat -- could use other beef or turkey.)
• 2 servings (= 10 crackers) whole grain saltines (crushed)
• 2 servings (= 2 - 3/4 C.) PictSweet(c) Seasoning Blends pepper/onion/celery mix (frozen section. I might steam this first next time, it was REALLY cold mixing it in. haha)
• 1 serving (= 3 T.) liquid egg whites
• 1/4 C. home-made(or other of your choice) salsa
• Seasoning of choice (you dont need much since the frozen veg. blend has seasonin as well) --- I used a pinch of fresh(dried thank you to hubby) parsley, garlic powder, onion powder
• 1/4 C. Reduced Fat mexican cheese blend

Make it:

• Mix first 6 ingredients in a large bowl
• Form into a loaf and put in the bottom of a sprayed roasting pan
• Cover roasting pan with foil and then place lid on top
• Put in a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes
• Uncover (be very careful of the foil -- use hot pads), continue cooking until middle is no longer pink (about 15 min more)
• Cut up and enjoy ;)

served with steamed broccoli w/ a little light butter(made w/ conola oil) and shake of garlic powder...

so so so so so yummy!!!!

I hope you all have an amazzzzing weekend.

I will probably not be blogging because I will be so busy :)

I will leave you with these words of wisdom....



go WINsconsin!! ;) ... I would put up a badgers photo too but these were fresh on my camera roll ;) SO ... ON WISCONSIN for the badgers too... cant wait!!! :D

~Stay healthy, happy, and be kind~

xoxo Amy