Wow Chow Cooking

The daughter recently made the Cheeseburger Casserole recipe from the popular recipe book, Saving Dinner. It’s a cute book, and has many good recipes. The Cheeseburger Casserole, however, was not so hot. OK, I admit I’m not a fan of casseroles, anyway. They almost always have pasta or rice in them, and I actually don’t [...]

Here it is. I found a recipe for macaroni and cheese and tinkered with it. Unfortunately, my tinkering ruined the recipe. Oh it looks good enough. What dish doesn’t look scrumptious with lots of cheese, eh? Shesh, even a criminal background check looks better with a little cheese, right?! But for starters– it’s the wrong [...]

I have NEVER been fond of tuna casserole. My mom used to make it with some kind of nasty, pasty flour-y white sauce… and then she added PEAS to it!! *shudder* Even thinking about it again makes my spinal column quiver with queasiness. YUKYUKYUK SO it took a team of horses to drag me into [...]

While I am not a big fan of casseroles (making them or eating them), my daughter threw this together today and it was good! We wanted to use up a lot of the leftovers in the fridge, and make something hearty, to boot. Here’s our potpourri of ingredients (sorry about the small photo, you practically [...]

We have another One Question Quiz, and interesting one. What can you make with meat or poultry, rice, cheese and a vegetable? Hmmmm. I’m not very fond of rice or chicken. And while I like cheese, I am fussy about my cheese (only Mozzarella, Swiss, and American). So this one has me as stumped as [...]

As a kid, I hated yams. So I haven’t had yams in over 30 years. I figured I’d try them now. I used to hate onions and peppers as a kid, and now I like them; maybe I’d like yams? NOPE. YUK BLEACH YUK! I still hate them. That’s probably not a very smart way [...]

How on earth did I ever lose track of this book?? I found it on a bookshelf today. It’s a great recipe book and I can’t believe I lost it, until now! It’s the Better Homes & Gardens Biggest Book of Casseroles. I got it when I was doing a lot of babysitting. Kids are [...]

I spotted this recipe at Disney Family Food site, and WOW! It took all of 20 minutes to make and throw on the table… and the family DEVOURED it! I love edamame (I blogged about the nutritious little buggers here), and snack on them regularly. The kids don’t like them, though. Ah, but I figured [...]

I hate Spanish Rice! Yuuuuuuk! So I’ve never made it in my life. But we had a houseful of hungry boys one evening and I was very short on supplies. Here’s what I threw together, and they devoured the entire dish with great gusto. The recipe takes advantage of leftovers, or you can make everything [...]

This recipe makes a nice, light meal for those end-of-summer-but-still-hot summer days. It’s also a good one to have on hand after Thanksgiving, when you are burdened with a superfluity of turkey leftovers! It has curry, one of those rare spices that has a name that has actually been converted into a verb. (Think about [...]