Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole

[charisstoma]

Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole
Ingredients

1 lb. of Ground Beef
28 oz spaghetti sauce
8 oz of Cream Cheese
1/4 cup of Sour Cream
1/2 lb. of Cottage Cheese
Whole Stick of Butter
1lb pasta such as elbow noodles or rotini
Bag of shredded cheese (I use pizza blend)
optional: sliced mushrooms, diced bell pepper, diced onion

Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Boil the noodles. Mix together the cream cheese, sour cream and cottage cheese in a mixer to thoroughly mixed together. Set aside. If you have chosen to use the bell pepper or onion saute them for 3 minuted then toss in the hamburger meat. Brown hamburger meat in a skillet and drain. Add spaghetti sauce and mix together. Put a few slices of butter in bottom of a 9×13 casserole dish. Then layer half of the noodles in the bottom of the dish. Spread the cheese mixture over this layer. Then add the rest of the noodles on top of this with a few pats of butter.
Now pour the red sauce and meat on top and spread.
Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and spread cheese on top and return to oven for another 15 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

Comments

[writer-klmeri.livejournal.com]

Have you made this with the mushrooms/onions/peppers? Did they cook sufficiently?

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Haven't made any of these from yesterday as I found them on FB page of a friend. Think that the mushrooms would be okay but the recipe calls for bell peppers and onions to be sauteed for 3 minutes and then tossed in with the meat to be browned.

Many of my main dishes start with the ground beef being browned and I throw in the onions/green peppers mid-way through that before any sauces being added. They all turn out well. Mushrooms are more delicate so doubt that's a problem.
Have on one occasion zapped onions and the peppers in the microwave if I doubted they'd be done.