Grandma's Hamburger Hot Dish

This recipe has potential. The flavors were decent, but next time I would make some tweaks. We found the cashews to be an odd addition, and ended up taking them off, even though we love cashews. I feel like another flavor of cream soup, other than cream of chicken, would have worked better. The recipe doesn’t state what size casserole dish to use. For the record, 9 x 13 would be too big so use something smaller. Are we supposed to drain the canned mushrooms? Next time I would NOT, because the dish came out pretty dry, and some of the noodles were still crunchy. The beef/onion/celery mixture desperately needs some sort of seasoning, and thankfully I added salt and pepper. In step 4, I would also keep the dish covered the whole cook time, otherwise the dish dries out quickly and the cashews get too brown. Other than that, this was a nice change of pace, but not sure if I’d make this again.

Even after adding salt and pepper it was still on the bland side. I used fresh mushrooms and added a couple of handfuls of spinach that I needed to use up. I substituted the cashews with butter drizzled panko bread crumbs. Don't think we will be craving this anytime soon.