Finally – a recipe post!!  So all around Pinterest you see these delicious-looking meals, that require hours and hours of prep.  I got to thinking that people should be sharing their “go-to” meals.  You know, you have a standard maybe 10 meals that you make repetitively – at least I do.  I fill in with fancy or different ones, but I’ve got several main ones I can whip up anytime.

Mexican Pie is one my standard meals.  I don’t know why it’s called “mexican pie” because I’m sure it’s not very Mexican, and it’s not very pie-like, but whatever.  I make it different every time, so if you’re a exact-measurement type of person (which I am when I’m baking, but not when I’m cooking dinner) this might be a hard-to-read post for you.  But if you’re looking for a new go-to meal, I may have the answer!

First up, I realize I’m not a food photographer – they could have made this look delicious!!

So, start off with about 1 pound of hamburger – – if you’re on top of things, you might even have baggies of pre-cooked hamburger in your freezer.  You can add whatever to it you’d like – often I throw in diced green peppers, but this time I didn’t have any.  I put in onions and a little taco seasoning.

Then I like to have a filler to go with the hamburger – but you could just use straight hamburger, which I’ve done several times.  Anyways, filler – often I use some leftover cooked rice.  This time I didn’t have any leftover rice on hand, so I made some Quinoa – –

Meanwhile, grab a box of corn muffin mix and make it according to the directions on the back.  Then drain a can of corn and dump the corn into the muffin batter – just to add more to the meal.  Sometimes I make it without the can of corn.

 Now, take your hamburger mix and stir in the quinoa or rice or whatever or nothing.  Sometimes I add black beans as more filler.  I was out of black beans so I threw in Red Kidney Beans.  Sometimes I don’t put in beans at all.  Take that mix and add about 1 cup of Salsa – mmmm.  Stir it all together. Then put it all into a baking dish:

 Pour the cornbread mixture on top:

 Bake at 350 until the cornbread is cooked all the way through in the middle (you can see where I poked this to make sure it was cooked) – maybe 30-40 minutes:

That’s it!  Dish it out….

Then I like to chop it all up on my plate.  You can add salsa and sour cream, etc, to top it off.

 Enjoy!!