Excuse my ignorance.

[Ian Gentles]

What is green bean casserole?

[Barb Bouldrey]

Green beans blended with mushroom soup, salt and pepper. Placed in a baking dish. Topped with canned onion rings and butter and then baked.

Been around for decades. Traditional in many homes.

I haven't made it in years, but I like it.

Barb

[Ian Gentles]

Weird, most of your side dishes i have never heard of.

[Glenda Harvey]

Green beans mixed with mushroom soup and French's (brand name) onion strings on top. A holiday favorite in the States.

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Barb, that casserole would be nice with slivered almonds in it.

[Mike Wooldridge]

Here (http://www.campbellkitchen.com/recipedetail.aspx?recipeID=24099) ya go, Ian.

[Dana Grant]

Weird, most of your side dishes i have never heard of.


Well, it's one of our side dishes that I dislike! Give me fresh green beans!!

And preferably my mom's!!

[Barb Bouldrey]

Hey, Ian,

Some of your MAIN dishes are weird to us. HA ha ha!

Barb

[Ian Gentles]

Hey, Ian,

Some of your MAIN dishes are weird to us. HA ha ha!

Barb


Whats wrong with Haggis? ;)

[Greg Farra]

Ian,

We also make gelatin dishes with various fruits, whipped toppings and pretzels in them. :p

[Bruce Carriker]

What is green bean casserole?

It's this really nasty, disgusting dish consisting of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and canned fried onion rings. Consider yourself EXTREMELY lucky that you don't know what this is.

[Roland Hearn]

Whats wrong with Haggis? ;)

Nothing if you like stomach stuffed with offal. How about that black pudding? You guys just love your blood and guts don't you?

[Ian Gentles]

Nothing if you like stomach stuffed with offal. How about that black pudding? You guys just love your blood and guts don't you?

Oh i love Black Pudding, though dont often have it.

[Gary Swartzlander]

Ok, someone needs to stand up for good enjoyable american food here. This is an enjoyable dish with a great taste. I heard recently on the food network that this dish goes back to the early 1900's I think. It's a great American food, especially with large mushrooms added and lot's of fried onions on top.

[Gary Swartzlander]

It's this really nasty, disgusting dish consisting of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and canned fried onion rings. Consider yourself EXTREMELY lucky that you don't know what this is.

Ian, considering some of the other stuff you've listed as being eaten, you'd love this stuff. It's a great all world taste.

[Carsten Schermuly]

Oh i love Black Pudding, though dont often have it.Blood in food is extremely unhealthy for circulation. In Germany we mix blood in a mighty big saussage, Blutwurst, in pig testine, in pig stomach and in glasses, canned.

Why the Lord has said, not to eat?
To protect our circulation.

Yes, I know, he has said "Because in blood is life". That is a spiritual aspect.

The physical aspect is circulation.

[Carsten Schermuly]

Ok, someone needs to stand up for good enjoyable american food here. This is an enjoyable dish with a great taste. I heard recently on the food network that this dish goes back to the early 1900's I think. It's a great American food, especially with large mushrooms added and lot's of fried onions on top.Sorry, you are wrong.

You wrote,
Ok, someone needs to stand up for good enjoyable american food here.

Correct were,
Ok, someone needs to stand up for enjoyable american food here.

Good food does protect health.
Bad food makes sick.

I will not say, you do eat bad things.
But
to say,
Ok, someone needs to stand up for bad enjoyable american food here.
were not a mistake.

[Anita F. Henck]

Some American food traditions don't fit in my "enjoyable" category. Notably, this includes lots of "church potluck foods". So, I may get voted off the church potluck invitation list. I'll miss the fellowship but not the food!

I detest CoolWhip (fake whipped cream to you, Ian), dislike jello salads, and tolerate things made with canned soups. It's mostly a matter of what's healthy (have you EVER read the ingredients in CoolWhip?), and somewhat a matter of taste (how can you compare CoolWhip with whipped cream or gummy canned cream of mushroom soup with a decent easy-to-make white sauce with mushrooms?). Stuff that needs major preservatives in it can't be healthy for us!

I'll admit some of it is still reminiscent of childhood events so I eat it ... and then wonder why I did so. But, I don't make much of it anymore. I don't think I've made green bean casserole for 25 years and not eaten it in at least 20.

Last night, by contrast, we had steamed (frozen) green beans, with lemon pepper salt and fresh lemon juice and garnish. Yum! Baked Alaskan salmon (frozen from Costco). Converted even a few non-fish-eaters at our table. Salad with Trader Joe's mixed greens, sliced gala and Granny Smith apples, toasted pecans, and blue cheese with a cranberry/walnut dressing. And, oven roasted potatoes with rosemary, olive oil, onions, and peppers. Made it all in under 40 minutes. Healthy, easy, and fewer pans to clean up than the mixtures in casseroles and gelatin salads for which Americans are known.

More than you wanted to know, Ian!

[Hal Paul]

Ok, someone needs to stand up for good enjoyable american food here. This is an enjoyable dish with a great taste. I heard recently on the food network that this dish goes back to the early 1900's I think. It's a great American food, especially with large mushrooms added and lot's of fried onions on top.

Green bean casserole is good. Londa made two large pans of it for our battalion Thanksgiving dinner. It was one of the first side dishes to run out.

When Londa asked Josh if there was anything special that he really wanted when he came home from college for Thanksgiving, he asked that I barbecue and that we have green bean casserole with Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh, and Gary, if it has large mushrooms on it, you can have mine.

[Edith K. Thurmond]

.......
Salad with Trader Joe's mixed greens, sliced gala and Granny Smith apples, toasted pecans, and blue cheese with a cranberry/walnut dressing....


Thanks for the reminder about this delicious and easy-to-make salad. We had it for dinner tonight and the toasted pecans were fresh from the tree in the front yard. I found a block of blue cheese that was encased in wax and had not dried out at all and it was delicious. We used a raspberry and walnut oil vinagrette dressing from the whole food grocer that is one of my favorites. No one seemed to desire anything else along with this elegant salad and we all felt like we had feasted. Some other time we will prepare your delicious menu but tonight it was "just salad."

Thanks again,