These days, I’d likely partially steam them in my rice cooker before adding them to the casserole, in an effort to counteract mushiness.
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It is definitely a midwest thing. I have made it for myself as I am the only one in the house that likes it.
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We always used canned green beans.
@TobinL My dad was midwestern - Missouri. He really loved all those cream soup based casseroles. We ate a lot of those growing up.
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The poor guy… I know what that is like. Anyway it is the french fried onions on top that make it. I made a passable tuna noodle casserole (it was a regrettable food party) that was tasty because I used those instead of potato chips.
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My mom was a master of baking, and made a few casseroles in her day. She made a good green bean casserole (not too much gravy/sauce). Her mac & cheese was the best, though. Her foods were always consumed completely at pot-luck dinners. My dad was pastor, so you might imagine how many casseroles I’ve eaten in my youth.
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You didn’t call them “hotdish”, so we know you’re not from the upper Midwest!
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You will get serious hairy side eye saying “hot dish” in Wisconsin or Michigan. It’s a Minnesota-ism I never could adopt. They can keep it along with “rubber binder” and “duck, duck, grey duck”.
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With relatives in MN, WI, and MI, I get confused all the time!
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I’d seach those phrases, but I’m scared to
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“Duck, Duck, Grey Duck” is how they do “Duck, Duck, Goose” in MN. I don’t think anyone truly knows why.
And a rubber binder is just a rubber band.
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I would not be surprised if it is because geese are assholes.
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That’s why you’re trying to outrun it!
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Heckuva lot more Canada geese in Michigan than in Minnesota.
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Wow. What an obituary.
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She seems like she was a total badass.
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hard to believe, in some ways.
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Oh no.
Some people are just meant to live forever, and Stan was one of them. I always read his Soapbox column as a kid, every Marvel comic I got, and he was always remarkably inclusive, even to 8 year old girl me. Yet he always made you feel like an insider.
I hope for true believers he’ll always be with us.
Excelsior.
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i agree. he was one of those people who always seemed like he was going to be there forever. i’m most worried now about his estate, and who controls his creations. he had such a crazy year or so since his wife died, and it seems like a lot of people with questionable motives were trying to control him and what happened with all that. i fear it’s going to get very very ugly from here on out.
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