On Mon 06 Apr 2009 05:09:44p, Jean B. told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 06 Apr 2009 02:13:27p, Jean B. told us...
>>
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> sf wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:37:53 -0500, Kathleen
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It also make my kids shudder and swallow hard when confronted with
>>>>>> green bean casserole at extended family potlucks. I love that
>>>>>> stuff. It's mandatory on Thanksgiving.
>>>> My mother made a similar concoction when I was a kid but I could
>>>> never eat it because I had an uncle who had pigs on his farm and it
>>>> looked too
>>>> much like pig slop. A few years ago my mother put me in charge of
>>>> making it for Thanksgiving dinner, but this time with the can of
>>>> fried onions. It was delicious.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I find the normal green bean casserole to be rather insipid.
>>>
>>
>> I make it "semi" the traditional way, and only at Thanksgiving.. I
>> will only use fresh green beans, cooked until just tender-crisp. The
>> folks who make the canned fried onion rings now make a cheese-flavored
>> version which I like better. I also reduce the amount of "sauce" (of
>> soup and milk or whatever). I mix a fair amount of the onion rings in
>> with the beans, and a very generous amount on top. I also add a can of
>> B&B mushrooms to the mix.
>>
> Our green bean casserole was basically French-cut green beans,
> bacon, sour cream, the onion rings.... Sour cream is much more to
> my liking than CCMS.
>

LIke it or not, CCMS is really inegral to the dish. I could see a
combination of both the CCMS and sour cream.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.