Terry Coombs > wrote:
> On 10/12/2018 7:42 PM, Jinx the Minx wrote:
>> 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!
>>>>
>>> Â* 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 €œreal€� recipe€”its 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).
>>
> Â* Where do you think "real" recipes came from ? "No Ogg , you stupid
> cave dweller , the meat goes over the fire fat side UP !" And thus was
> born the first "real" recipe ...
>

True enough! By €œreal€� I mostly meant identifiable by some greater
collective of people, either by region, or culture, etc. The only two
people that I know that make this are my mother and me, but I dont doubt
there are lots of similar things out there.