Brown Sugar Meatloaf

I come from a very meat-and-potatoes family.  My mom still has Fried Chicken Mondays and makes mashed potatoes just about every night with dinner.  She also buys a side of beef (that’s half a cow!) every year for just the four people still living in the house.  When I was a vegetarian in high school, I ate a salad for every meal because my mom didn’t know what else to make without meat in it.  Moral of the story: We eat a lot of meat.  And we eat a lot of potatoes.  With Mothers’ Day coming up, what better way to celebrate my mom and the childhood she gave me than to make my wonderful boyfriend a Brown Sugar Meatloaf and Fingerling Potatoes with Shallots and Garlic?

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