Did you buy too many boxes of Stove Top in preparation for Thanksgiving? Did a generous friend or family member offer to make the dressing from scratch, so you didn't need to use the mix from the back of the cupboard? If you find yourself with excess stuffing and a desire to make a vintage casserole, Sharing the Flavor with Family & Friends (Roseville (OH) PTO, undated, but the cover art is dated 1973 and the chapter dividers are dated 1978) offers up some possibilities.
If you need some cruciferous veggies (and canned soups!) in your life, there's Vegetable Casserole.
As much as I want to make fun of this conglomeration of highly-processed ingredients, I'm pretty sure I'd love it. If you've got broccoli, Cheddar cheese soup, and mushrooms (even canned), I'm usually on board.
If you are tired of increasingly cold fall weather want a more summery vibe from your veggies, there's always Zucchini Casserole.
This one is enriched with plenty of dairy fat from the sour cream, butter, and Parmesan cheese, so you can enjoy all the holiday-season richness while pretending that the zucchini and carrots make it health food.
And if you've got a lot of leftover poultry, it probably wouldn't be too much trouble to convert Chicken Casserole to Turkey Casserole.
This one might be a good joke, too-- Fool the family into thinking you're serving a big old tray of plain dressing for dinner-- until they dig down into the dairied-up poultry layer at the bottom.
The Roseville PTO families must have really loved their stuffing mixes, and now we can be thankful (ironically, earnestly, or both-- your call!) that they passed those recipes on to us.
Thankfully the end product sounds better than the beginning of the recipe. I'm always a bit skeptical when a recipe starts with boiling chicken and saving the broth. I tried that for mom when she was on the no iodine diet and she complained about it for years.
ReplyDeleteNo point in being thankful for someone's help when you can be a pain in the ass about it.
DeleteYou can occasionally find a good recipe here! I hope you enjoy the casseroles if you get a chance to make them. My favorite stuffing is probably the one in the 1975 Betty Crocker cookbook (the red pie cover). It is so buttery.
ReplyDeleteI remember the oatmeal cookies as tasting divine right out of the oven, but once they were a day old, it was like trying to eat a block of concrete.
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