Salmagundi Bake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup uncooked long grain rice (I use brown)
1 teaspoon salt
pepper
2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
1 cup hot water
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 lb hamburger
1 teaspoon salt (another one)
1 1/2 cups frozen corn
2 tablespoons chili powder (or to taste)
4 slices bacon

Preparation

Put rice in a un-greased 2 QT casserole dish and sprinkle the first tsp salt and the pepper over the rice.
Pour ONE can of the tomato sauce and the hot water over the rice.
Layer the onions and green pepper next.
Then a layer of crumbled hamburger (you don't have to cook it first).
Sprinkle the hamburger with the second tsp of salt.
Top it off with a layer of the corn.
Mix the chili powder into the other can of tomato sauce and spread on top of the corn.
Lay the bacon strips on top.
Bake covered for 1 hour at 375.
Then uncover and bake 15 min.
more until rice is done and bacon has crisped.