SO HAPPY I FOUND THIS RECIPE! I'm surprised to learn this is a southern dish as it's a common dish served in local Hawaiian restaurants (served over white short grain rice). This is my favorite dish to order so it makes me even more excited that it came out SO GOOD ("SO ONO" in Hawaii)! It's on par with some of the best I've tasted! I made it for family dinner and everyone loved it. They were surprised I made everything from scratch, even the gravy, and said that it tasted better than the ones they've had in restaurants. I'm giving it 4 stars because I did take the advice of the other reviewers and don't think it would have been as good had I not. I almost doubled the gravy recipe (I ran out of beef broth - 1 can makes approx 1.5 cups) and I think it was just perfect! I also added a touch of milk to thicken, cooked the onions in the drippings separately AFTER the hamburger was moved to a plate and added mushrooms to the onions. Even though I used 3/4 of a medium onion, and 1/2 of a basket of sliced fresh mushrooms - I feel I could have added even more. I added about 1/4 tsp salt since others described it as a little bland. It came out PERFECT and I will definitely add this to my regular rotation. This was easy to make even though the ingredients list looked long and possibly complicated. It really isn't! Don't get intimidated by that - try it! Thank you Mrs. Trader!

Wonderful!!! No substitutions, modifications or "spicing up" needed. Make this the way the recipe tells you to and you will not regret it. Everyone I made it for absolutely loved it! I made it after a friend made it. SO easy to make but tastes like a 5star chef made it. This will be my secret recipe when I need to impress (shh!).

Very good base recipe. I summarized others' advice for my liking so the renovated ingredients were: 2 cans of tuna, 1 can of cream of chicken, 1 can of cream of mushroom, garlic salt, frozen peas, about 1/2c mayo, black pepper, diced onions, a touch of whole milk, about 4 cups cooked macaroni, 1 c shredded cheese, and 1 c french friend onions. It was very good and i couldn't stop eating it for days (tasted good the next day too). Even though I thoroughly enjoyed it, I couldn't stop thinking it needed something else. The diced onions and french friend onions added a little crunch, but more was needed. My mom used to make a tuna casserole using leftover potato chips. I think that would be perfect to try in this next time - crush up the potato chips and mix in with the casserole. It adds a lightly crunchy potato. I'll also add a dash of tabasco sauce next time for a kick as was also suggested. I'm keeping this recipe - in the form I changed it to. :-) 3 stars because it's a base recipe but definitely needs kicks to it. Thanks, Andrea, for the start to many interesting creations from this!