On Mon 06 Apr 2009 05:45:20p, Jean B. told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Well, it is to the classic recipe--since the recipe emanated from
> Campbell's. that was in 1955, by the way.
>

Yes, I remember that. In fact, my mother clipped the recipe from a
magazine and made it that year. I was 10 years old. At that time I didn't
much care for green beans, so that recipe got me to eat them because of the
onion rings. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright

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