2 lbs hamburger, pork, or ground meat of choice
1 onion, thinly sliced
4 frozen mini corn on the cobs
4 medium potatoes, use red or golden, peeled and sliced thin
2 – 2 ½ carrots, per Hobo, peeled and sliced, or made into match sticks
2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
2 Tablespoons real butter, in 4 pieces
Real olive oil spray
4 pieces of aluminum foil
2 cookie sheets
Heat your oven to 350 degrees F.
You will need one piece of foil per Hobo, making sure it is large enough to hold all the ingredients, and have room to fold over.
Lay out your 4 foil pieces. Make 4 meat patties out of the ground meat, and place the patties in the middle of each piece of foil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Add the chopped garlic over each of the patties.
Divide onion slices between the 4 Hobos, and lay them on top of the meat patties. Then add potatoes, and carrots, putting them on top, and around, the meat patties.
Add one mini corn on the cob to each Hobo. Salt and pepper the entire thing to taste. Sprinkle parsley flakes over each Hobo, and add a pat of butter to the top of the potato carrot mixture.
Spray the entire thing with olive oil. Fold up the foil, put them on cookie sheets, and bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour 15 minutes. You want to make sure the carrots are done, so it may take longer.
You can easily change these around, adding more or less vegetables, add different vegetables, or change the spices. For example, we have made these with pork chops instead of ground meat, and included sliced and peeled apple. Be creative with these, always use a meat thermometer to make sure it is done.
You can make more Hobos depending on the size of your crowd, and how hungry you are.
Children have fun eating these like this: put a cooled foil packet on a plate for each person. Open the foil, careful of the steam, and eat right out of the packet.
