Easy simple dish utilizing sauerkraut, venison burger, and instant mashed potatoes. It is a riff on shepherd's pie that the retired farm wives cooked in our school cafeteria. We had a Frank's Kraut plant right in town and a number of local farmers grew kraut cabbage on contract for the three local Kraut factories in Black Creek, Shiocton, and Bear Creek.
You haven't enjoyed a high school job until you pitched those huge kraut cabbage heads, 3 at a time, with a pitch fork, up and over the side of a dump truck with an extra plank or two on the top of the box. The best time is in November when it's about 34 degrees and the field thaws in the late morning. The mud is ferocious, usually you are pulling the dump truck with a big ass tractor or a small Cat. The frost is melting off the cabbage heads that the migrant workers have cut with butcher knifes, bent over at the waist. The hardest kind of stoop labor I have ever done. Woe be to any critter like a frog, toad, or meadow vole unlucky enough to run from one of those Mexicans with a butcher knife. They can throw one as accurately as a twenny two at close range. I'd never even look at one of their sisters.
So, melting frost, wet cabbage heads 11 to 15 lbs. each, three speared at a time, lifted over your head as high as you can dripping ice cold muddy water down your neck, for a buck sixty an hour.
Anyway, Shiocton school cafeteria kraut casserole. Brown up a pound of burger, put it in the bottom of a casserole dish, drain 3/4 to 1 lb. of kraut and layer it on top of the burger. Cover that with an inch and a half of mashed potatoes. The very best are home made with a little garlic and some stinky cheese like bleu or feta mixed in. Bake that a half hour at 350. Melt a couple tablespoons of butter in the microwave and brush it on top of the mashed potatoes and put it back in under the broiler until all of the tater peaks are browned.
An excellent variation is to use a good fresh ground bulk sausage in place of the burger. Of course schools used commo ground beef, potatoes, and bent and dented 1 gallon cans of kraut straight from the Frank's plant.
I can't even imagine destroying a wonderful, corned beef sandwich by putting something as disgusting as sauerkraut on it. 
You would think but that's not the case. Nearest Sam's is in Springfield Missouri............2 1/2 hours away. Were lucky to have Walmart. Had a Costco membership when we lived in Michigan. Much preferred over Sam's.
