Hamburger Cornbread Casserole

Thought I'd share a simple, hardy family favorite meal... 

Hamburger Cornbread Casserole with mashed potatoes and green beans

"Hamburger-Cornbread Casserole"

(I double this recipe for our family)

1lb. of cooked, drained hamburger

1 med. chopped onion

1 chopped green pepper, sauteed

1 (8 oz) can of tomato sauce  (I use 1 1/2 pints of my canned tomato sauce)

1 (16 oz) can red kidney beans

Handful of shredded cheddar cheese (if ya want)

1 box cornbread (I mix my own from cornmeal and I DO NOT double the cornbread when I double the recipe)

*** Today I also added some garlic powder and chipotle powder

Preheat oven 425

In a large bowl mix together hamburger, onions, peppers, tomatoes, shredded cheese and red kidney beans. Salt/pepper to taste. Add ingredients to a casserole dish. Prepare cornbread and spread over top of hamburger mixture. Bake 20-25 mins.

Fresh collard green & cornbread cakes

This is what we had for dinner, its good!

I can see us eatin it a lot this summer

We have a very LONG row of collard greens in our G-A-R-D-E-N

*** Heres how I fixed it ***

Cook up 3 slices of bacon in a big skillet as its cookin wash, dry your greens the best you can, cut up.  After bacon is done sit aside to cool, add alittle oil (olive oil) to the bacon grease then saute up some onion & garlic, then add your greens, a can of drained whatever beans you have on hand, salt, pepper, alittle hot pepper flakes & alittle hot sauce is good to add.  Mix it around a few times while cookin, I like to saute mine.  When done crumble the bacon on top.  I put alittle apple cider vinegar on top of mine own bowl. 

Happy Cookin ;)

Taco soup w/cornbread

Heres what we had for dinner tonight. I had some friends askin me for the recipe so here ya go...

...Recipe...

Taco Soup
2 lbs. lean ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
4 15 oz. can pinto beans, undrained
2 15 oz. can tomato sauce
2 16 oz, cans corn, undrained
2 8 oz. cans green chiles, ( I used 2 cans tomatoes w/green chiles)
2 pkg. taco seasoning
2 pkg. ranch dip seasoning
2 cups water

Brown beef w/onion, drain fat. I added everything to my crockpot, cook on low about 7 hours.

Or add everything to a large pot add remaining ingredients. Bring to boil while stirring, reduce heat, simmer uncovered 1 hour.

Makes 20, 1 cup servings (If your doing ww, 1 pts. per cup)

* You can serve this with sour cream, shredded cheese and tortilla chips. I ate mine over top a slice of cornbread.

Ham and Cheddar Cornbread

...Tonights Dinner...

Pic. speaks for itself... It was good stuff, family liked it.

*I seen this recipe and wanted to try it. I just made my cornbread as usual, then poured half in the pan, topped it with ham slices and cheese then poured the rest of the cornbread mixture on that and baked for 20-25 mins. I will be makin this again. It went great with our beans tonight.

3 Family Favorite Recipes...

Well...
Not Everyone's Favorites!
(recipes after last picture)

Mexican Rice and Black Bean Casserole

Chicken a' la King w/Cornbread

Make your own sundae...
Dylan's bowl, My bowl, lol

"Hamburger-Cornbread Casserole"

1lb. of cooked, drained hamburger
1 med. chopped onion, 1 chopped green pepper, sauteed
1 sm. (8 oz) can of tomatoes (I use 1 quart of my canned tomatoes)
1 (16 oz) can red kidney beans
handful of shredded cheddar cheese (if ya want)
1 box cornbread (I mix my own from cornmeal)

Preheat oven 425
In a large bowl mix together hamburger, onions, peppers, tomatoes, shredded cheese and red kidney beans. Salt/pepper to taste. Add ingredients to a casserole dish. Prepare cornbread and spread over top of hamburger mixture. Bake 20-25 mins.
(I double this recipe for our family)

"Chicken a' la King"

1 thawed bag of mixed veggies (peas, corn,carrots, g.beans, lima beans)
1 cup of sliced mushrooms (more if ya like)
1 1/4 chicken broth
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup flour
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup cooking sherry or apple cider
2 cups cooked, chopped chicken
1 tsp. dried tarragon (I use more, I love the taste of it in this recipe)
salt and pepper
6 squares of corn bread

Combine mixed veggies, mushrooms, broth in a med. saucepan. Simmer, covered, until veggies are cooked. Drain, reserving veggies and broth in separate bowls. Melt butter in a large saucepan over med. heat. Add flour. Cook, stirring continually for 1 min. Whisk in reserved broth, milk and sherry or apple cider. Reduce heat. Cook, whisking continually, until thickened, about 2 mins. add chicken, mixed veggies, tarragon, salt, pepper. Heat to serving temperature. Spoon chicken mixture over corn bread square and enjoy :)
(I double this recipe too)

"Mexican Rice and Black Bean Casserole"

Basically the recipe for the Mexican rice and black bean cass. is... Brown and drain 1 lb. sausage, saute some green pepper, cook enough rice to make 2 cups (or use leftover rice). Put all this in a bowl then added 2 cans undrained mexican style tomatoes (I just use 1 quart of my canned tomatoes) about 1/2 shredded cheese, 1 can of black beans (drained and rinsed) and I also added a can of drained corn. Mix all together, put in baking dish and cook at 350 for about 45 mins. We put salsa and sour cream on our own serving . We also ate it with tortilla chips, I think it would taste great rolled up in a flour tortilla....

* Now if ya try these let me know how your family likes em :)