This brown sugar meatloaf is an easy and tasty dish. It tastes as good as it smells!

cooking spray

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup tomato sauce

3/4 kg lean ground beef

2 large eggs

1 small onion, chopped

3/4 cup milk

3/4 cup finely crushed saltine cracker crumbs

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C, lightly grease a 5x9-inch loaf pan. Press brown sugar into the bottom of the prepared loaf pan and spread tomato sauce over top sugar.

Mix all remaining ingredients thoroughly in a mixing bowl and shape into a loaf. Place on top of the tomato sauce and sugar crust. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour or until juices are clear.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Servings: 8

Marjorie William's 100th birthday was celebrated last Thursday the 16th of February and she thoroughly enjoyed her day. Family and friends helped her celebrate with lunch at the Sun Lai Chinese restaurant in Bellara. Lifetime friends from Melbourne as well as her niece who travelled from Port Douglas surprised and delighted her with an unexpected visit.

Marjorie moved to Bribie from Melbourne when she was 94 and has enjoyed every minute of living here, she loves to sit in the shade of the palm trees in her son’s yard and enjoy the cooling breeze. She always said laughter is the best medicine and it seems that it must work.

She loves to " have a chat " and will happily talk about times from the past and changes that she has seen over the past 100 years and her memory is still very clear with every detail. She likes to walk to the local newsagent once a week to buy her favourite magazine and some scratchies but complains that she never wins a big prize. (I would think she is not the only one with that complaint but it's a bit of fun.)

She said that she is now starting her second 100 years, and " why not? "