On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:54:25 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> sf wrote:
> > Can't tell you "why", I can only say I did the best I could at the
> > time and it was horrible. I like tuna in a white sauce with peas
> > served over toasted English muffins... but using the same basic
> > ingredients in a casserole with noodles made it inedible AFAIWC. I
> > tried to eat it, but couldn't and I'm getting an upset stomach just
> > thinking about it.
>
> The only problem I sometimes have with noodle casseroles is when the cook
> overcooks the noodles. Since you're baking the thing, you need to get them
> just short of al dente. Otherwise you have mush. Good tasting mush but
> still mush. And often that's how ours was when I was a kid.
>
I was an experienced enough cook at the time to take that into
consideration and it wasn't the noodles fault.

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