Food.  I love it.

Most of my family doesn’t get the way I adore certain foods.   The texture and the taste can make or break an item for me.

Hershey Kisses.  Okay, not the best chocolate but there is something about that candy that I can seriously OD on.

There are countless examples of what I’ll head straight for like a cat faced with catnip.

Enter a night that the family unit needs dinner.  Fast, tasty, and what I have on hand and it better not be spaghetti.  Again.

Google the ingredients.  Toss the first few suggestions as meh.

What I found, what the family fell on like starving fiends and was requested over and over.

It’s become comfort food.  It’s become 4 bodies in agreement on what’s being served.

Consider me speechless.

Simple ingredients and yet fit my simple requirements to make it sing.

Ingredients:

1 pound ground beef
1 can (10 3/4 oz.) Campbell’s® Condensed Cream of Celery Soup (regular or 98% Fat Free)
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 cups frozen hash-brown potatoes
3 slices process American cheese

Directions:

COOK beef in skillet until browned. Pour off fat.

ADD soup, water, ketchup and Worcestershire. Heat to a boil. Stir in potatoes. Cover and cook over low heat 10 min. or until done. Top with cheese.

That’s it.   Only one suggestion was offered on the first outing of this recipe.  Swap out the Worcestershire and add mustard.   Yeah, we’re great foodies.  Really.  Snort.

The other thing.  I didn’t have Cream of Celery that night.  I had cream of broccoli.  Girl turned up her nose but it warmed the cold shell of my heart to see her diving into seconds.

Last night’s offering was yet different again.   Cream of potato soup.  Added in mixed veggies.    And doubled the spuds, the soup amount and a bit extra water.  Still good but not the best zing I expected.

Would I do it that way again?   More than likely no.

Will this simple recipe get made again?  I have a feeling it will become a requested item much like the dreaded spaghetti.

Now if they’ll all fall in line over lima bean soup.

Got a recipe you love to cook and they love to eat?