Cheeseburger Pie

I’ve finally got back into the swing of cooking more regularly again.   For those who don’t know, my sweet husband of 32 years passed last November.  I had spent the last year taking care of him best I could, and our meals surrounded what he could eat (which wasn’t much due to his esophageal cancer).   It’s still a huge adjustment doing life without my bestest friend, but the Lord has been good to me.    I was doing Trim Healthy Mama, Whole 30, and Paleo type recipes prior to his being ill, and have only been partly on this past year for above stated reasons.   I didn’t gain during the stressful year, but I need to get off the weight I accumulated post 8 babies and a year of cancer myself.   Okay, enough about me.  This is a recipe from Trim Healthy Mama called Cheeseburger Pie.  For you THMers, it’s an S meal.    If you are low carbing it or doing Atkins, etc, this is a low carb meal.    I tweaked it a bit for my little fella and I to eat for lunch today and share with his siblings tomorrow, because they are at home school camp this week.    It’s smells fantastic.

Ingredients:

• 2# ground beef
• sea salt
• an onion
• 12 oz grated cheese (I used 6 oz, and added 6 cheese slices for the top)
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup Ranch dressing (they use mayo in their recipe)
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• pickles
• tomatoes
• Whatever burger seasonings you like.  I like Montreal steak seasoning

1.  I chopped up an onion and threw it in the pan with the beef.  Browned & drained the beef.
2.  Then I added Montreal steak seasoning, but use what you like in your burgers.
3.  I put mixture into my casserole dish and threw in 6 oz grated cheese ( okay, I’ll be honest, I don’t measure.  But that’s what their book, which I highly recommend, suggests.  I threw in a handful or so).
4.   I layered sliced tomatoes and pickles on top .
5.   In a bowl I beat the eggs, ranch, heavy cream, ,salt and pepper.
6.   I poured the eggs mixture over the beef, and then I added sliced cheddar cheese.
7.   Baked at 350 for 35 minutes.

Voila, enjoy!   (Tweaked from page 326 in Trim Healthy Mama)  By the way, the 9 year old thinks it’s pretty yummy!!

 

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