Meatloaf!

The one that I made the last few times was basically:

1kg beef mince
1 onion finely chopped
1 clove garlic finely chopped
2 T chutney or tomato sauce -whatever you have
1 egg beaten
Half a cup of breadcrumbs OR 4 slices bread soaked in milk and mushed up (I find this actually gives a nicer texture. You need about 1/2-3/4 c milk)
Herbs - fresh or dried, whatever you like
Salt and pepper

Mix the whole lot up with your hands, shape into a meatloaf. Place in big oven dish, and cover with slices of bacon.

I like to put chopped veggies e.g. potato, pumpkin, beetroot, kumara around it and bake for 1 hr at 180 degrees.

I also sometimes make a mushroom sauce to go with it - fry off a small onion and a clove of garlic, add some chopped mushrooms (as much as you like and whatever you have on hand), when all nice and golden add about a cup of chicken stock, bring to boil and thicken with cornflour if you like or cook until reduced by half.

Hope this helps!

I do meatloaf in the crockpot. 500gm mince, mixed with a egg, a few spoons of chutney, a decent squirt of tomatoe sauce, some dried herbs/salt/pepper and some crished corn chips. Shape it into a loaf on a peice of baking paper, then use the baking paper to lift it into the slow cooker. Cook for 6 hrs on low.