Welcome
to salad season! Haven’t you been craving the crunch of fresh greens? Bonus
points if you’ve grown your own salad.
Vinaigrette
is all I need at home. The creamy stuff is great, but I’m telling myself my
homemade vinaigrette is more “healthy.” I do go for the Green Goddess and honey
mustard when I’m out, though…
Pro
tip: Crunchy stuff is more than croutons. Toast some nuts or crumble some
potato chips over your greens. If you have tortilla chips past their prime, know
you can crisp them up in the air fryer or in a pan on the stove.
Readers,
if you’ve got a favorite or unusual salad you’d like to share, let us know!
Here’s
some goodies that go in salads:
·
Strawberries
·
Crunchy
onions
·
Raisins
·
Cheese.
Even cottage cheese
·
Coconut
·
Radishes
Let’s do
Casseroles! – Mock Goose,
Mock Enchiladas Baked Liver and Wild Rice and Chicken Liver Casserole are just
some of two pages worth of wonders in a spiral cookbook I ran into recently.
The
Beta Sigma Phi International Cookbook of casseroles (including breads) offers
2000 favorite recipes of Beta Sigma Phi members. Let’s see what else they were
eating in 1969.
·
Mustard
Chops is simply a spread of prepared mustard and evaporated milk over loin pork
chops.
·
Wagon
Wheel Bake begins with Cheez Whiz and tuna… let’s skip to the pretzels and call
it a day.
·
Creole
Chicken Gumbo from a Colorado woman includes Worcestershire sauce and brown
sugar.
·
Amid
pages and pages of tuna casserole, there’s a recipe for Mock Chicken Casserole.
Surprise! It’s tuna. This one came from Tucson and I wonder if her family
learned the secret when the book came out.
All
this is fun stuff and I’d probably try most everything in this book. That is,
if someone else made it. Times and tastes change. The people who made cream of
mushroom soup in cans must miss the days.
Darragh Doiron is a Port Arthur area foodie down
for a casserole. Share your adventures with her via panews@panews.com
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