My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
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Lol. Maybe it was just vegetables then. I was thinking if meat was in it it would be like one of those biscuit casseroles or a pot pie.
I make what I call sausage casserole. Sausage (from our farm raised hogs) brown rice, onions, peppers, celery, peas, carrots, green beans and a little bullion. My kids like that with cheese on top. I quit buying most meats from stores and we are going to fill the freezer with venison, pork, fish, and wild turkey and hope to get some other small game birds. My garden gave some great produce this year (first year) and I put in strawberries, blueberries and raspberries
Yeah, I was thinking of that at first but that's not so much with a crust, it's potatoes, I think. But similar in the sense it would be filling and comforting.
I mix in some cheese to the mash potatoes, and do a thin layer on the bottom of a casserole with the mash, then seasoned ground beef with a can of sweet corn overlayed with a can of creamed corn. Then a thick layer of the mash with some extra cheese on top or bread crumbs. Beef gravy or ketchup when served depending on taste. I grew up with ketchup on top. Husband thinks that's gross so I make the gravy.
Condensed cream of mushrooms, canned green beans and cripsy French onions memory.
Homemade French meat pie, touche on toast with mustard, homemade beans with a big glob of bacon fat with fresh baked bread.
We ate a lot of Italian and French foods. I had an Italian Nana and a French memere.