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Default Friday Night Dinner 10/12/18

Terry Coombs > wrote:
> On 10/12/2018 4:48 PM, Jinx the Minx wrote:
>> Gary > wrote:
>>> Jinx the Minx wrote:
>>>> It’s an uncomfortable 40 degrees out so a comfort classic, hamburger
>>>> hotdish, is on the menu for tonight.
>>> I just looked that up. Sounds good. I see many variations after
>>> beef and egg noodles. How do you make yours?
>>>

>> No noodles. Its pretty much scalloped potatoes with carrots, and browned
>> hamburger (with diced onion) instead of ham. The ratio of meat and carrot
>> to potato is higher, too., like 1/3 each. Mixed with a basic scalloped
>> potato sauce (no cream of soup). Dont skimp on salt and pepper else its
>> pretty dang bland. Then baked a long dang time until the carrots and
>> potatoes are soft, which depends on how thin you cut them. Hard to screw
>> up and my kid likes it. I only make it when its the two of us home.
>>
>> If I were to re-write the recipe using noodles, Id omit the carrot, add
>> mushrooms, use cream of mush soup and call it stroganoff hotdish. Ha!
>>

> * That sounds a bit like a layered casserole my wife useta make ,
> layers of sliced taters , green beans , mushrooms , ground beef , thick
> slices of onion and topped with a can of Cream O' Something soup .
>


Im not even sure my recipe is a real recipeits just something my mom
made when I was a kid and my daughter likes it, so I make it for her. Ive
never, ever seen nor heard of it anywhere else. I just googled it and
cant even find anything super similar online (although I didnt search
long).