we did grow up on that....it sucked too.


"RV WRLee" > wrote in message
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> >Hot dish? Casserole?
> >> Please explain to this Scandinavian...
> >> Anders
> >>
>
> A casserole is a one dish meal where the meat and vegetables and starch
are
> baked together, usually in some type of sauce. Cassoulet would be a
French
> version of a casserole. In the US a casserole that many of us grew up on
was
> the dreaded Tuna Noodle Casserole. A mixture of canned tuna fish, egg
noodles
> and frozen green peas which are baked together in a white sauce. This is
> usually topped with bread crumbs or crushed potato chips for a crunchy
topping.
> FYI, the type of dish (usually glass or pyrex, sometimes terra cotta)
used to
> prepare a casserole is also called a casserole. It's a rectangular dish
> roughly 8x12x3 inches.
> Bi!!