Banzai Burger Meatloaf

Okay it's pretty stinkin' simple (which is AWESOME for my crazy 'fred and I both going to school and working and having two kids' schedule!)

Ingredients:

1lb lean ground beef (I'm talking 96/4 lean)

Ciabotta bread cut in half is what I used tonight, I've also used the buns cut in half, which was great! You could use any bread that suits your fancy though, really.

1 Tablespoon Worsteshire sauce

1/4 cup of bread crumbs

2 eggs

1/4 cup of mayonaise

1/4 cup of teriyaki glaze (another 1/2 cup to use at the end)

1/2 pound of cheese

1/2 a can of crushed pineapple

mix all the ingredients together (except the bread)

I always do it with my hands, I believe it mixes better that way, but you can do it how you please!

Then just place the mix on the bread in a casserole dish.
This time I only did 3/4 of the mixture, and thought the small casserole dish would suffice, but it really didn't, it filled it up really quickly!


On top I threw some pineapple rings and finished it with the last 1/2 cup of teriyaki sauce and threw it in the oven at 375 for about an hour.

Mine is baking right now, so I don't have a finished picture-- I will post one later though! I just wanted to get this up before the night got away from me!

There is another version of this recipe called BBQ Bacon Burger Meatloaf, that I plan to post on tomorrow, so check back to get another delish idea for dinner!

Thanks for reading!

And remember, recipes are just guidelines! Make it your own!

Chicken Tacos

This might be one of my favorite meals ever, because I LOVE not having to work too hard for a "belicious" (oh yeah, thats how Jackson says delicious) dinner--This is why I LOVE crock pot meals-- Plus, it's HECKA good!

Chicken Tacos

2-4 chicken breasts (it's totally fine if they are frozen)

1 Jar of salsa - I love Pace Chunky Mild Salsa, but I've used Great Value Corn and Black Bean salsa and it was awesome too!

Tortillas

and whatever you like on your tacos, we usually have:

Cheese

Sour cream

Guacomole

Lettuce

Rice

So, you just throw the chicken

and the whole jar of salsa into the crock pot and wait about 4 hours (unless the chicken was thawed, then you only need to wait about 2 hours) then shred the chicken-- It should fall apart, if you are having to work pretty hard to shred it, it hasn't cooked long enough. After shredding, let it soak up the salsa juices some more-- maybe 1/2 an hour-- then serve on tortillas and enjoy!

Sometimes we put the chicken into the tortilla with some cheese and sour cream and then grill it on the foreman grill, and it becomes our version of "grilled stuffed burritos" -- I reccomend this! YUMM!

They come out looking like this!

My two year old loves these! He was too impatient (okay, hungry) to wait for the grilled stuffed kind, so his ended up coming out the end... He ate a lot of it with a fork, and didn't seem to mind.

You can always put this over rice- minus the tortilla or whatever suits your fancy!

Make it your own, remember what my mom always said, "a recipe is just a guideline! Do what you'd like with it!"

Amanda