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Other Cooking Equipment => Other cooking Eqipment => Other cookers => Topic started by: Smokin Don on December 11, 2014, 12:23:39 PM
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Dec 10 2014
A casserole is an easy meal to fix and makes for comforting food on a cool winter day. Just have a salad or some veggies and some bread and butter and it’s an easy meal to fix. I had some shredded cheese that needed used so I bought a pound of ground chuck at my butchers; all I needed was a recipe. I found this one for Beef and cheddar at Food Network by the Food Network Kitchen. It also used some wide egg noodles I had on hand and sounded good to me.
I had a loaf of good take home and bake bread so I baked that before starting the casserole. I like to bake my own bread but when I can get a loaf already made and just bake it for about 10 minutes and it’s as good as I can do from scratch it’s just too easy!
I got my noodles boiling and cooked them about 4:45 and by 6:10 I had this on the table. While the casserole was baking my wife made up a mixed Romaine salad for us. Our son had to work so we had the grandson for supper and the DIL ate when she got here from work.
The shredded cheese I had was two different Mexican mixes and a little cheddar. After eating it I think about any kind of cheese would work with this. Since I was using ground chuck 80-20 mix I removed some of the grease but left some for flavor. I am beginning to love the Penzey’s 4S salt but I use it sparingly since it is heavy in salt. I sprinkled some on top and the red from the smoked paprika in it gave it a nice color.
We all liked this and think it is among the best casseroles I have made. I think what really adds a great flavor to this dish is the sour cream and parmesan cheese added to the noodles. I was not going to post this but for anyone who likes casseroles this is a good one.
Link to recipe http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/beef-and-cheddar-casserole-recipe.html
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Smokin Don
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Don,
Another fine meal. I like making casseroles like that. Always good when the temperature drops.
Art
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Delicious looking meal Don.
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I would have like to have had that for lunch just now!
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Looks and sounds great Don! Haha, I think your butter outweighs the bread......tasty! :D
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Don....you do us all proud....hungry, but proud!.... ;D
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We call that hotdish in Minnesota. Looks excellent SD
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Looks excellent!
Thanks for posting!
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Looks great Don.. Great meal for a cold winter night.
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YUM! That casserole looks real good. I'll have to make a few changes, but I think I'm going to try this one.
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Thanks for posting that Don. It looks absolutely fantastic. I am going to have to put that one on the to-do list :P
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OH yes, comfort food on the plate! ;) ;) ;)
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Looks delicious Don, nicely done. ;)
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My kind of comfort food Don! Looks delicious!
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Looks delish, Don - two of my favorite ingredients - beef and cheese