Anyone have a great casserole recipe? Or 5?

[applegrove]

[joneschick]

1. this needed a kick!

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. My Chicken & Rice Casserole

Turn oven on to 375 degrees
put a half stick of butter into a glass 13x9 glass baking dish
Put the pan on the oven while its heating to start melting the butter

Get your ingredients out:
2 cans mushroom soup
White rice
Milk
Soy sauce
Teriyaki sauce
Worcestershire Sauce
Sliced mushrooms (a container of presliced is just about right)
Parmesan cheese (large shaker can and fresh--I use the pregrated in a plastic container)
Garlic powder
Dried or fresh chopped chives
Pepper
8-10 boneless chicken breasts

Take pan out of oven
(Should only be in to melt butter for about 5-7 miutes)
Mix in this order in the pan with the butter:

Open and dump both cans of Mush. soup in
Add enough milk to make it somewhat soupy (about a can to a can and 1/2)
(stirring with a fork really helps to smooth it out)
Mix in:
Tbsp. Soy Sauce
Tbsp. Teriyaki Sauce
2-Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
Add two and 1/2 overflowing handfuls of uncooked white rice
(about a cup to a cup and 1/2)
Stir well
Add chives, garlic powder and pepper to taste
Stir again
Layer sliced mushrooms on top of soup mix
Layer chicken breasts on top of mushrooms
Sprinkle about a cup of fresh grated Parmesan cheese over the chicken breasts
Shake most of large can of Parmesan over chicken to cover it all.

Cover in foil
Bake for 50 minutes
Remove foil and bake for 10-15 minutes more until cheese is browning.

Yummy!!!!

[applegrove]

3. Yum mushrooms!. I'm hungry already.

[hickman]

4. My favorite one you wouldn't like.

My Mothers mac and cheese, loved only by her children.

Boil elbow macaroni then let it cool.
Cube a block of sharp cheddar cheese into 1 inch cubes.
Mix the macaroni with the cheese in a casserole dish, pour in a melted stick of butter, and fill the dish half way up with milk. Stick the whole thing in the oven for about 30-40 minutes. My mom was 14 when her dad died during the Depression and had to go to work. She made this one up on her own. It sucks, but we still love it.

[applegrove]

5. We had a family recipe for bran cookies we loved. Nobody else did. People

always said: "that looks like a hamburger not a cookie".

[1gobluedem]

6. Porcupine meatballs

1 lb ground beef
1 medium onion diced
1 egg
1/3 cup rice
1 can tomato soup
1 cup water

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix ground beef, onion, egg, and rice. Shape into 1" meatballs and put in casserole dish coated with non-stick cooking spray.

Heat soup and water to boiling, pour over meatballs, and bake covered for 1.5 hours, uncovered for half an hour.

[applegrove]

8. Tomato Soup is my fav!

[trof]

7. tuna-noodle surprise?

Sorry, overdone cliche'.
;-)

[catmandu57]

9. Tater tot casserole

given to me by Mrs. Jacobi in Stillwater Mn long time paasing.

One large can cream of Mushroom soup

(1) pound burger

(1) onion

Shredded Cheese

Brown and drain the burger and onion, combine with soup, and cheese, mix well in a casserole dish top with tater tots bake for twenty minutes at 425.

[applegrove]

11. I just quit smoking..watching my weigh..will have to save yours for some

other time.

[applegrove]

12. I just quit smoking..watching my weigh..will have to save yours for some

other time.

[AwakeAtLast]

10. Baked Rigatoni (easy)

Boil 1 lb. box of rigatoni, drain
Mix in 1 jar spaghetti sauce (more if you like more sauce)
Pour into baking dish, top with any Italian spices you like
Top with 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese.
Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.

My husband loves it!

If you must have meat in it, you can also add ground beef, but it will need to be seasoned.

[applegrove]

13. Yum.

[ejbrush]

14. Dan and Nate's Brat Casserole

This dates back to living in the Big Yellow House on South Randall Street (across from the zoo). There are no measurements, beyond what was on the package directions:

OK, so take a rectangular cake pan. Butter this so's the crust don't stick. Now, make a batch of biscuit dough (Jiffy Mix is the best, in the big blue box) big enough so you can press about a 3/4" thick layer in the bottom with yer fingers.

Now, boil a half dozen brats (or Eye-talian sasages, kielbasa, knockwurst, Andoullie, mettwurst) or whatever makes up one pound of meat. Boil it is cheap beer, fer christ sake don't waste the good stuff. Chop up an onion in it for fiber. When done, fish the sasages out and cut them into little round slices, mebbe 1/4" thick. Don't bother with the onion.

These little meat-pucks get spread evenly over the biscuit dough (remember the dough?). Here's where things get dicey in the nutrition department. Generally, at this point the whole thing is covered in a layer of cheese. Cheddar, swiss, colby, jack, provelone, mozzerella, gouda, munster. Anything pretty much would work, you see, the cheese acts as a cap to trap the purity and goodness of the sasage grease and inbreed it with the biscuit dough. So don't be shy. Wisconsin will make a lot more cheese (real cheese) if you run out.

If you have made the error of using lean meat or turkey-based product or non-meat meat, slice up a 1/2 stick of butter and dot it on before putting the cheese on. Or margarine. Or lard, but only good quality leaf lard from real (dead) pigs. It's heathier than fake processed vegetable shortening.

If you feel guilty at this point, throw in a handfull of chopped onions and green peppers. There, now it's healthy, since there are vegetables.

Bake untill the crust is done. This was never a precisely defined time span. Use your best judgement, the meat's all cooked so you won't get sick if it's a little chewy in the center.

Enjoy!

Next Time: Got way too many apples and a 1.75L bottle of rotgut Vodka? Help is on the way!

[Floogeldy]

15. Saute some chopped onion and green pepper. Add 1 lb. of ground beef.

Brown the ground beef. Add salt and pepper. Throw in a can of Franco-American spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese. Stir. Okay, okay, dump it in a casserole dish and cover it with a layer of 1/2 mozzarella and 1/2 cheddar cheese, grated. Put the lid on. Bake until hot.

[applegrove]

16. Yummy Taragon Lasagna. Make lasagna as per usual. Mix mozza, with

a little grated havarti and cheddar for each cheese layer. Roast zuchini, fennel bulb (only the white part), onions, red peppers (mix vegetables with olive oil)in oven under broil (sometimes 15 minutes a side..sometimes 5 minutes)and make a layer of vegs on top of the ground beef layer. Also have cottage cheese & spinach layer (mix one egg with spinach, melted if it was frozen, and cottage cheese). Top layer.. put the same mostly mozza cheese on top of sauce...then parmesan..then sprinkle with dried tarragon leaves or "fine herbs". You can also sprinkle the fine herbs or tarragon between layers on the cheese.

Tarragon goes with creamy stuff and tomato. So it makes for really tasty lasagna.