This week we baked up a Toasty Cheese Bake casserole for our family night cooking adventure. This recipe comes from the Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library, 1971, Budget Casseroles.



This was another dish that was extremely easy to put together. Brown your meat, toast your bread, layer, and throw it in the oven.


The recipe calls for 1/2 pound of ground beef. We thought this amount was too little for a main course entree that contained so much bread. We decided to use 1 pound of beef instead.

Another change we made was in the cheese. We used shredded cheddar and Jack instead of Shredded American. Our grocer does not carry shredded American nor block American cheese, only sliced.


This Hamburger Cheese Bake recipe is fantastic. The hamburger almost tastes like sausage the way it blends with the egg, cheese, and mustard. If you are looking for an easy, different, meal, you might want to try this little treat.

This week our Family Night meal was Zippy Beef Casserole from The Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library (1971), Budget Casseroles.

When this recipe card came up I was thinking, "Oh, great, potato chips and pasta." The kids were excited about it, including the big kid, my husband.



This beef dish goes together really easily and has ingredients you may have in your kitchen right now. We decided to use small shell macaroni instead of elbow macaroni. I purchased the shell macaroni in error.

These casserole recipes are getting easier for my teen to put together. She is really getting the hang of the kitchen and is learning that if you can read, you can cook.

The Zippy Beef Casserole turned out to be one of the easiest dishes we've tackled yet. It was tasty. However, I am eliminating the chips next time. Something just does not seem right about putting pasta and potato chips together in a recipe.