Today is my first recipe for our “Foods from the Heartland” theme this month (beef and grains). And boy, my sweetie was happy to hear about this month’s theme. He can’t help it. He’s a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy: the son of a butcher. A Piggly-Wiggly butcher no less and I admit when it comes to buying beef I do appreciate his input. So on one of our cooler Carolina nights I whipped up this easy casserole that is topped with one of his favorites – cornbread.