Tonight I had to make dinner from stuff that I already had. This is what I came up with.

1 lb ground beef

salt, pepper, garlic, dried onion or real onion (I had both but I was way too lazy to cut up a real onion. Dirty and knife and a cutting board? Please.)

package of boxed Au Gratin potatoes (and the milk and butter that you need to make them)

can of cheddar cheese soup

frozen or canned green beans

 

I browned the beef. I almost burned it because I wandered away and watched "The X Effect" on MTV for awhile. I added garlic and onion and salt and pepper to the beef. I drained it. I added a little more salt, pepper, garlic and onion, because duh, I just drained it. Oops.

I dumped the beef into a glass casserole baking dish thing. Then I mixed in the can of cheddar cheese soup and some frozen green beans and mixed it all up. Then I had fun using a spatula to press it into kind of a loaf. You don't have to do that. It was just fun. Then I mixed up the au gratins in a bowl, and dumped it over the top of the meat-square.  Then I thought better of it and moved the potatoes to the sides of the dish. My dish was big enough to do that. I just didn't want all the potatoes to be on top because they might get hard and crispy. I wanted most of them in the au-gratin juice on the sides.

So then I put it in the oven at 450 degrees for 25 minutes. When it was done I let it sit and thicken for about 10 minutes.