Food H &P:
• 1 pound of ground beef or ground turkey
• ½ cup of diced onion
• 1 cup of oatmeal
• 2 eggs
• 1 T of Worcestershire sauce
• Salt and Pepper
• 2 cups of shredded pepper jack cheese
• ¼ cup of ketchup
• ½ tsp of chili powder
Food Rx
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a loaf pan.
Mix the 1st 6 ingredients, adding the amount of salt and pepper that you would prefer. Press half of mixture in the bottom of the pan, cover with the cheese. Then press the remaining meat on top of the cheese. Top with the ketchup. Lastly sprinkle the chili powder on top.
Bake, covered with foil for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake another 25 minutes or until the edges are bubbling and meat is no longer pink.
Let sit 5 minutes before slicing.
This meatloaf takes comfort food to the next level! You could think of it as “impregnated” with cheese! Speaking of being pregnant, most people are surprised with the volume of patients that come into an Emergency Room requesting a pregnancy test. Although they passed multiple drug stores en route to the hospital a lot of my patients believe there’s something definitive about an official ER test. I explain every shift that my hospital test is no different than the one that could have been picked up at the patient’s convenience; thus saving a couple of hours and a hefty bill! Although there is also the other extreme, when a patient is asked what brings them to the ER I get the response of nausea, fatigue, and dizziness all the while getting no thought of the possibly of pregnancy. I never imagined how many times I would give the sex education talk. Most of my patients feel that if that are not wishing to become pregnant then it is not possible. After many years this trend remains; however, now I give my spill and heat up my leftover meatloaf and conclude that my routine day just got so much better!