Last Night's Dinner

[jennythereader]

I made a double batch of Ham Casserole, with a few changes, last night.

The biggest change I made was to replace the second onion that a normal double batch would need with the leftover scallions and garlic scapes from last week's farm share (I think it was about 6 of each). That worked really well, except that I think I need to pre-cook the garlic scapes a little longer. They were still pretty tough after cooking.

I added about a cup of diced green pepper, which blended well with all the other flavors.

I also tripled the horseradish instead of doubling it. You can't have too much horseradish in this casserole.

One change that didn't work was using "Clear Value" brand cream of mushroom soup. They're the cheapest brand Price Chopper sells, but the quality is noticably worse than even the store brand. I think I'm blaming it for the casserole being a little too salty for my taste.

Comments

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Looks good! I've made a similar casserole dish, though the triple horseradish would be left off of mine :)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

The horseradish is sort of crucial to the overall flavor, so I wouldn't leave it out completely. But if it's not as popular a flavor with your diners as it is with mine then keeping it in proportion would probably work fine.

[stefka.livejournal.com]

I use the Clear Value brand on some things, but definitely not the soups. They're really rather sad. Other items, just dandy. But not the soups. Shudder.

Gonna have to try this recipe. Maybe with cream of celery, so as not to kill the husband. :)

Ping me with that laundry soap recipe sometime, when you have it handy?

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I've made it with cream of celery before. It works pretty well.

And here's the link to the laundry soap. (http://whynotsew.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-make-homemade-laundry-detergent.html)

Semi-relatedly, would you like an invite to Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/jennythereader/)? It's where I'm finding and bookmarking all sorts of recipes and other interesting things these days.

[sioneva.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're aware, but it's possible to make "cream of" soups from scratch - http://articles.urbanhomemaker.com/index.php?article=896&o=save has the recipe we've always used. You control how much sodium you want, and so forth.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I knew it was theoretically possible, but I didn't have a good recipe for it. Thanks for the link!