Ham and Cheese Casserole

[senmut]

1 lb tiny cubed ham
2 cups cheese of choice
1 small to medium onion chopped small
8 ounces mushrooms of choice chopped small
1 cup milk
2 large eggs
1/2 cup Bisquick

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix the ham, onions, mushrooms in a 13X9 baking pan or casserole dish (Spray the pan if you want easier clean up, or layer with foil/parchment paper). Layer the cheese over top of it. Mix the Bisquick, eggs, and milk thoroughly, then pour over the mixture in the pan. Bake for 25 minutes. Makes 8 servings.

This is basically the Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie recipe off the Bisquick box, but made with ham instead. It has more flavor than the one made with hamburger, without having to add any seasoning at all.

Comments

[reginagiraffe]

Suppose I could use kielbasa instead?

Because if so, I have all of these incredients!

[senmut]

Oooh, now I hate the the GF doesn't like sausages. Because that sounds YUMMY! Yes!

[reginagiraffe]

My choices of cheese are cheddar and mozzarella? Which do you think would be better?

[senmut]

I think mozzarella, as it doesn't make as much grease as it melts.

[reginagiraffe]

I made this a couple of days ago and it was *delicious*.

Except there wasn't really enough biscuit stuff. Isn't it supposed to end up with a thin layer of biscuit on top? There was barely enough to hold the ingredients together.

I think next time I'll use 2 cups of milk, 2 eggs and 1 cup of Bisquick.

Plus I had to cook it for 30 minutes instead of 25.

But still... *delicious*.

[senmut]

Yeah, this one is intended to just hold it together, but increasing would give you that layer.

[mathsnerd]

What the heck is Bisquick? *puzzled*

[senmut]

From their wiki:

Bisquick is a pre-mixed baking product sold by General Mills under their Betty Crocker brand, consisting of flour, shortening, salt, and baking powder (a leavening agent). According to General Mills, Bisquick was born when one of their sales executives met a train dining car chef in 1930 who mixed lard and the dry ingredients for biscuits ahead of time. The recipe was adapted, using hydrogenated oil, thus eliminating the need for refrigeration (Sesame oil was originally used as a preservative, identified on the box as "Ingredient S" over the years), and officially introduced on grocers' shelves in 1931. Originally intended for making biscuits very quickly (hence its name), Bisquick can be used to make a wide variety of baked goods from pizza dough to pancakes to dumplings to snickerdoodle cookies.

I've used it all my life, and so has so much of my family, I never thought people might NOT know what it is. It's a handy shortcut.

[mathsnerd]

Ahhh, it's an American thing. I'm German, and though I lived in the States for a while, I never met this ingredient. I'm back home again now, so such short-cuts are not available to me. Thank you for clarifying!

[senmut]

That makes a lot of sense.