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Easy Mexican Casserole

Feb-19-2009 By Joan

Casserole recipes save both time and money, and everybody loves a good budget recipe using hamburger. My family loves this Mexican meal in a dish.

Ingredients

2 lb hamburger
1 medium onion chopped
16oz can black beans
15 1/4 oz can tomato sauce
10 oz can enchilada sauce
2 c shredded cheddar cheese
6 oz tortilla chips

Directions

Brown hamburger, adding onion and cooking until onion is soft. Drain.

Stir in remaining ingredients, except for chips and 2/3 cup of cheese.

Layer chips on the bottom of a 9×13 inch baking dish, keeping back a few. Add hamburger mixture over chips. Crumble the rest of the chips and sprinkle over the top. Add remaining cheese last.

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Serve with sour cream and guacamole, add a green salad and you have an easy dinner recipe.


Jumble cookies

Here are two of my favorite cookie recipes. Jumble cookies and Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies. Your family will love them and both are delicious!

Jumble Cookies

This jumble cookie recipe is super easy to make and were a favorite of my grandmother’s. The cinnamon also creates a mouth-watering fragrance in your kitchen!

Jumble cookies

Ingredients for Jumble Cookies

1 c butter
1 c sugar
1 tbs cinnamon
3 c flour

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in cinnamon and gradually add flour.

Roll into tube about 2 inches thick and refrigerate dough for a couple of hours.

Remove from frig, slice and flatten.

Sprinkle each cookie with sugar and bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.

Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 c shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Cream first 4 ingredients.

Add dry ingredients slowly and blend well.

Roll into a 2 inch tube and refrigerate for several hours.

Slice tube into cookies, flatten them and bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.

Try Watkins quality vanilla and cinnamon in these recipes! You’ll taste the difference.