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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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.
That is a very original sounding recipe, different from anything I have tried. Thanks for posting.
Besides putting the mash potatoes on the bottom and adding some cheese too...I thought I was making the classic version all these years.
I never heard of corn in it before, lol. But I'm no expert.