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Posts tagged “casserole”

Clearing the Pantry? Make a Free-Form Pasta Casserole

Last week Sara Kate showed you her favorite way to use up a lot of odds and ends from the pantry and fridge: Free-form soup. Here's one more way to use up little scraps of cheese, vegetables, herbs, n...

Yay or Nay: Do You Have to Stir Risotto?

Risotto is one of those foods that we just can't live without. It's creamy and comforting, and it works as a vehicle for just about anything we want to put in it. Yet we don't make it very often at ho...

What Are Your Favorite Casserole Recipes?

Over the holidays some of our most popular posts and recipes were casserole-related. Take this breakfast strata, for instance, and Art's mom's breakfast casserole. I couldn't help but notice this with...

Classic Cassoulet: Stick-to-Your-Ribs Good

This classic French comfort food seems to be the hot new thing this year. Not only have we seen recipes in several national food magazines, but many of you mentioned it on your list of winter projects...

Add an Extra Ingredient to Your Holiday Recipes: Love
Holiday Guest Post from Art of Pleasant House

I’m honored to be a guest at The Kitchn. I’ve gleaned so much useful information over the years from The Kitchn, Apartment Therapy: Chicago, and the rest of the sites, and from their friendly and ...

Memories of Christmas Breakfast Strata (and a Recipe)
Holiday Guest Post from Anne Zimmerman of Poetic Appetite

I am not exactly sure what most people eat for breakfast on Christmas morning. There is often a lot of talk about dinner: roasts and hams, traditional side dishes, and glittering desserts. But the day...

Hot Dish! 12 Gratins, Bakes, & Casseroles from The Kitchn

There are almost as many names for casseroles and gratins as there are recipes. It's a rich genre of cooking, including everything from Italian lasagna to Indian biryani to American tuna casserole. ...

Just as Good! Lighter Mac and Cheese Casserole
Recipe Review

Want to slip at least one light(er) side dish onto your Thanksgiving table? Give this one a try! Every bite is so gooey and perfectly chewy that we doubt anyone will even notice the lack of heavy crea...

Gooey and Bubbly: 5 Exciting Lasagnas To Warm You Up!

We've been making the same basic lasagna - Mom's recipe! - for years. We love this comfort food without reserve, but it's also nice to mix things up now and again. These five lasagna recipes are tanta...

What's In This Mushroom Casserole?
Anatomy of a Recipe

We all have those recipes that we go back to again and again. They're so good and satisfying, and they come out perfectly every single time. Ever wonder why? Today, we're taking a look at one of our f...

Recipe Review: Quesadilla Pie from Simply Recipes

We've been on the hunt for good weeknight recipes lately, and this quesadilla pie from Elise Bauer sounded like it would fit the bill! No fancy ingredients, no extensive prep work - just assemble and ...

Feeding a Crowd: Frittata Squares

A frittata is one of our favorite one-dish meals. You make the whole thing in a skillet, it takes minimal effort, and it's inexpensive. We usually make ours in a 10- or 12-inch fry pan, which works we...

Recipe Review: Heidi Swanson's Mushroom Casserole

Mushroom casserole with eggs, ricotta, sour cream, cheese, and hearty whole grains. That's the picture we had when we first saw this on Heidi's blog, and it called out to us. It's been on our to-make ...

On Sale: Beautiful Casserole Dishes

We are planning on baking a lot of casseroles this winter. Casseroles don't need to be all about canned cream of mushroom soup and leftover turkey; we are plotting casseroles of smoked sausage and gre...

Recipe Recommendation: Mushroom Casserole from 101 Cookbooks

You know how sometimes you see a recipe, or even just hear someone talking about it, and you just know you're going to have to make that for yourself very soon? That was this mushroom casserole recipe...

Looking For: Christmas Morning Breakfast Casseroles

Here's a good question from reader Chelsea, who writes: Every year for Christmas, we eat breakfast casserole after opening our presents. It's easy to put together the night before and pop into the o...

Word of Mouth: Cassoulet

Cassoulet (cass-oo-lay'), noun: A traditional French "casserole" with origins in the southwestern Languedoc region and usually containing white beans and several kinds of meat. In our always humble o...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Casserole Crazy

There's absolutely nothing high-brow about a casserole. This ubiquitous, endlessly adaptable Midwestern potluck dish is comfort food, pure and simple! Emily Farris, author of Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuf...

What Foods Can You Take To Someone Who Is Bedridden?

A friend of ours was in an accident recently and broke her leg, requiring surgery. She's unable to walk for the next few months, and a group of us are banding together to prepare foods that she can s...

Hospitality: What Meals Do You Take to Friends?

Cooking a meal for someone else is a generous expression of love, we think. But when that meal needs to be schlepped across town to a new mom or sick friend — and possibly sit in their fridge for ...

Flickr Find: Baked Mediterranean Casserole With Rucola Pesto

We think that modern, updated casseroles are going to be hot this year. Potatoes, tomatoes and pesto, and spicy tofu certainly qualify as an update to a classic dish... ...

Recipe: "Ham and Cheese" Breakfast Casserole

We ate a lot of breakfast casseroles growing up. Any time there was a crowd to be fed before noon, this baked dish of egg, sausage, cheese, and day-old bread would appear. And yet, as adults, we've ...

Good Question: What's a Casserole Dish?

I received a great casserole cookbook for the holidays this year, but I have to admit I'm really not sure what makes a casserole dish. Is the key that it can go in the oven? Can I use a pot then tha...

Top Home Cooking Trends for 2008

We're ready to throw down our top four predictions for what will be happening in our home kitchens in 2008. We've come up with this list based on conversations and product requests from you our reader...