Category: Casseroles

• Rainy-day tuna casserole with whole-grain noodles and LOTS of vegetables

  Hey, it’s not a dessert. And Taste of Home says it has 327 calories in each of 6 servings which is truly OK for a casserole. Add green salad in light dressing, a glass of wine and a perfect orange, and I shall sail away to bed a happy camper. My mother’s tuna casserole, which, of…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 4, 2015

  Casseroles, good food, vegetables

  Casserole makeover, cheese, onions, Taste of Home recipe, Tuna, Tuna noodle casserole, zucchini

• Take ’em a meal; broccoli-chicken casserole

  I’m going to call my first cookbook Tweakers. (Notice, please, I did not say Twerkers.)  I’m referring to the habit of myself and most of my cook friends in which we change every recipe just a little, even the first time we make it. Stoic the Vast is puzzled by this, but we tweakers can imagine how something…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 20, 2014

  Butter, Casseroles, Simple foods, Taste of Home magazine

  cheese, chicken, Stuffing, Tweaking recipes

• Squashed, again!

    Hoot, mon, it’s a great summer when the squash plants outdo themselves and you find two good new squash recipes. This one showed up last week in the American Profile magazine supplement, with Stoic the Vast pointing out the cover promo as “something else you could try.” I could also try reading for an entire…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 27, 2014

  Casseroles, eggs, good food, Local food, Recipes, Seasonal food, Simple foods, Southern food, vegetables

  cooking from garden, Summer squash, Thyme, Vegetable custard, zucchini

• Happy Valentine’s Day!

  Should I admit I don’t mind being snowed in? Perfect excuse not to go to the gym, nor for long walks. Perfect time to plow through piles of old pictures, to take some new ones with my new camera, to finish one book and begin another. Plus, our energy-inefficient house is all windows looking out…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 14, 2014

  Beans, Casseroles, good food, healthy cooking, Simple foods, Winter

  Beans, Carrots, Garlic, Nova’s Bakery, onions, Taste of Home magazine, Turkey sausage

• One cigarette away; vegetables with oomph

  So many addicts in recovery seem so affected by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. No way to tell if it’s more than usual at the passing of a talented young person with as many problems, or more, than talents, but everyone appears gobsmacked by the 20 years sobriety preceding his final tailspin. Those of us who slide…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 10, 2014

  Casseroles, Emo eating, Food addiction, Handling loss without eating, Simple foods, vegetables

  cheese, Corn, green beans, onions, Sour cream

• Travels with Tootsie, sweet potato and peanut stew

  Any day that begins with a video conversation with Dora the Explorer and one of her older sisters calling to say they’re coming for Christmas is a fab one. Saturday morning the Tanzania group was in the middle of 3.5  internet-free weeks on their schedule. So everyone went into a Stonetown internet cafe to upload pictures and…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 24, 2012

  African food, Casseroles, Emo eating, Exercise, Fall, Tomatoes, vegetables

  allspice, cumin, onions, slow-cooker, sweetpotatoes, Tomatoes

• Neuroses, chocolate bunnies and tuna casserole

  I will never be able to eat everything I want to eat. I will never be able to eat enough to make me “happy” (read: numb). I will never be able to eat enough to make me feel loved, appreciated, beautiful, fill in the blank (and this I mean literally — the hollow that is…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 1, 2012

  Casseroles, Chocolate, Fish, Food addiction, good food, healthy cooking, Self control, Stress eating, Weight loss, Why overweight?, Willpower

  Dealing with food addiction, Managing cravings, Tuna noodle casserole, Turn off food switch