Dear Readers: If you’re planning a holiday dinner with your family and friends, my Taco Casserole recipe is a delicious addition to your menu. It is made without measuring the ingredients so that you can basically use whatever you have on hand or any of the leftovers you might have in your refrigerator. Here it is:

Hard taco shells, tortilla chips or corn chips broken into small pieces

Salsa

Cooked taco meat, ground beef or shredded boneless chicken

Beans

Cheese

Green peppers

Sour cream

Black olives

Chopped lettuce

Heat oven to 350 F. Grease or spray nonstick spray onto a casserole dish (the size depends on how much you want to make).

Put a bit of salsa on the bottom, then add taco or corn chips. Layer with leftover taco meat, beans, cheese, peppers and more salsa.

Bake until hot then cover with sour cream, olives and chopped lettuce before serving. Enjoy!

This recipe and over a dozen more of my most popular recipes are in my “Heloise’s All-Time Favorite Recipes” pamphlet. For a limited time when you order this pamphlet by visiting www.Heloise.com, you’ll also receive the “Heloise’s Main Dishes” pamphlet for free!

This pamphlet has many more original recipes, including Holiday Ham, Mother’s Cornbread Dressing and others you can serve with your holiday meals. — Heloise

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