INGREDIENTS:

2 lbs. ground beef or ground venison
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup bread crumbs
24 oz. jar Pace medium or hot Salsa
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper corns
1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Mix all ingredients reserving 12 ozs. of Salsa for the topping.  Lightly grease a 9 x 13 inch Pyrex dish and add mixed meatloaf and shape into a loaf. Indent the top of the meatloaf with your fingers and add the balance of the salsa on top.  Place in a pre-heated 350 degree oven and bake for 1 hour.  Serve with your favorite sides.

YIELD: 8 or more servings

Recipe from Linda Murray of Rockingham, NC

This a quick and easy meatloaf recipe and Linda Murray planted the seed for my Quick Fix Chili Bean recipe by the usage of the salsa since it has everything you need already precut and seasoned.....Murray definitely "Cooks smarter not harder"...grin now.  A few sequence pixs below.  

PS   Linda Murray's original recipe called for 1 lb. ground beef, 1 slice of crumbed loaf bread and 1/2 the other ingredients listed but since I package my own ground venison in 2 lb. vacuum sealed bags the recipe was adjusted accordingly.  Pixs below: