Sometimes what you really need for dinner is something that’s unassuming and not at all fancy but is comforting and filling and tasty as can be. Basically, what you need is meat and potatoes, and this Cheesy Hamburger Potato Casserole is just the way to get it. I love this dish because it’s so easy to make and it’s just SO simple. It’s just a handful of economical ingredients that are tossed together and baked into deliciousness, so it’s humble, but you don’t need frills and fuss when it’s as scrumptious as this.

Beef. Potatoes. Cheese. You could say just those three words and I’d be confident that the dish would be good. There are a few other components, but rest assured that those are the main stars. The only prep you’ll need to do is browning some ground beef with onions and slicing your potatoes before you layer it all in a baking dish with some cheddar. Russets work great but you can use pretty much any potato you have on hand – as long as the tubers get tender, you’re good to go.

And then there’s a quick sauce that takes, ohhhh, about thirty seconds to mix up. And you know what I truly love about that sauce and this dish? It doesn’t use cream of mushroom soup as so many casseroles do, it uses canned cheddar soup and it lends such a luscious creamy cheesy flavor to the sauce that I’m gobsmacked we haven’t all been using it for casseroles more often. But you live and learn.

This is a dish where the oven does most of the work for you, which just means you’ll have plenty of time to do things outside of your kitchen. Like finally folding that laundry. Or pulling those weeds on the front path. Or just putting your feet up for a little while. (Hopefully it’s that last one!)