Recipe HELP!

[LadyFisher]

We've been invited to a New Year's Day dinner, host is doing a turkey and fixings...everyone to bring a dish. Ours is for a veggie casserole. Here's the problem, I won't do the green bean mushroom soup one (don't ask) so what would you make. Help, please? I don't have my favorite Flathead Lake Lodge Sweet Potato recipe here in Arizona (it's in Montana I couldn't bring everything) . Help please, really!
Hugs,
LF

[bdesavage]

Deanna,
Jean used to do a "Tater Tot" casserole with a cheese sauce and various veggies, She dosen't remember the details but it was basicaly the tots,sauce and onions, califlower,
peas, carrotts and/or whatever tickles Your fancy.
This may help get the ideas flowing.

[Uncle Jesse]

I don't really cook, but I know cooks, this is from my late aunt's cookbook of collected recipes from the ladies of Calhoun County, MS. I would have attached the entire cookbook but did not know how. I picked several w/o mushroom soup.

SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE (8 or 9 servings)
2 eggs
1 1/2 Cup Evaporated milk
Pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
1 stick margarine
2 cups grated raw sweet potatoes
Mix ingredients together. Seat well, and cook on 350 deg. F for 45 minutes. stir once-during cooking.

SCALLOPED POTATOES (serves Mrs. Aubrey Sutherland, Vardaman
6 medium potatoes
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup flour
2 cups milk
6 tablespoons margarine or butter
1/2 teaspoon pepper
12 slices of cheddar cheese
1 medium onion (sliced thin)

Pare potatoes. Slice thin, place 1/3 of slices in the bottom of 2 quart casserole. Dot with 1/3 of the butter, season with salt and pepper. Place thin onion slices on top. Sprinkle flour over onions and cover with 4 slices of cheese. Add the second layer of potatoes, butter, seasonings, flour, onion and cheese. . Do the third layer the same and top with cheese. Pour 2 cups milk over top. Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Serve hot


RICE CASSEROLE (serves 10)
1 cup raw rice
1 large onion (chopped)
1 stick oleo 1 cup celery (chopped)
2 medium size bell peppers (chopped)

Cook in margarine until tender, onion, celery and pepper.
Then mix:
rice
1 can chicken broth
1 can beef consomme’
1 small can chopped mushrooms

Salt to taste Pour in casserole dish and bake 1 hour at 350.


BAKED TURNIPS WITH PEANUTS (serves 6)
3 cups of sliced cooked turnips or rutabagas
1 medium onion, sliced
1 cup raw chopped peanuts
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika

Arrange turnips, Onions and peanuts in a well greased baking.dish. Dot with butter or margarine, add salt and paprika. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

SQUASH CASSEROLE (6 servings)
2 10-oz. pkgs. yellow squash
1/4 large onion
Do not season. Cook till done, drain. Stir in:
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 beaten egg
1 cup diced cheddar cheese


Put in 2 quart casserole dish. Melt 1 stick oleo and add about 15 crackers crushed. Top with crumb mixture. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

[hairwing]

Here's mine I made for Xmas:
Peel and chop 6 sweet potatoes in 1/2 inch slices. Boil in salted water until tender.
Make a syrup:
1 cup brown sugar
2 tbls butter
pinch of salt
1 shaved orange peel cut to slivers (peel only , no white pulp)
1/4-1/2 cup juice from the orange, oranges
1 cup water
1/4 cup raisins
3 whole cloves
1/4 tps nutmeg
Bring ingredients to a boil.
Mix 2 tbls (heaping) of corn starch with cold water and thicken the syrup.

Next combine the sweet potatoes and syrup in a casserole with a lid and simmer on a stove top for 1 hr at lowest setting.(stir gently once in awhile).

Kick it up a notch' if you'd like, with one julienned jalape?o pepper added while making the syrup. SW folks will love you for it (sweet and spicy).

[Uncle Jesse]

Hairwing,

I see a couple of ingredients my Mom put in her sweet potatoes that I really like, orange peel and raisins really top of sweet potatoes. Like I said I don't really cook but I know what taste good.

[ducksterman]

Isn't she asking about a veggie dish. Aren't the vegetables done in addition to the potato dish? I'm just beginning to have to take over the cooking in our house.

[mnklagoon]

Roasted Carrots with thyme.
2 tbs. virgin olive oil
1 1/2 pounds of carrots washed and cut 1 1/2 long pieces cut on a bias
1 tsp. kosher salt
4 sprigs of fresh thyme
2 tbs. unsalted butter
1 tbs. honey

pre heat oven to 450
Heat olive oil in oven proof skillet over high heat. Add carrots salt and pepper cook turning after 2 minutes each side.
Add thyme sprigs and butter. Drizzle with honey and transfer to oven. Roast the carrots till golden and crisp/tender.

[Uncle Jesse]

Isn't she asking about a veggie dish. Aren't the vegetables done in addition to the potato dish? I'm just beginning to have to take over the cooking in our house.

Sweet potatoes and regular potatoes are two different varieties of plant distantly related. Maybe it will sound better if we call them "Yams," which are also really a different plant.

[sagefisher]

Deanna,

I called the Flathead Lake Lodge, figured I would get your Sweet Potato recipe from them but they are closed until January 3. So no help there.

Larry ---sagefisher---

[Wes]

African Sweet Potato Stew with Red Beans from Cooking Light 2004 and the Cooking Light Slow Cooker Cookbook

2 teaspoons olive oil
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 garlic clove, minced
4 cups (1/2 inch) cubed peeled sweet potato (about 1 1/2 lbs)
1 1/2 cups cooked (or canned) small red beans
1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon grated peeled fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes, drained
1 (4.5 oz) can chopped green chilies, drained
3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
3 tablespoons chopped dry-roasted peanuts
6 lime wedges

Heat oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; cover and cook 5 minutes or until tender. Place onion mixture in a 5-quart electric slow cooker. Add sweet potato and next 10 ingredients. Cover and cook on LOW 8 hours or until vegetables are tender. Spoon 1 cup cooking liquid into a small bowl. Add peanut butter; stir well with a whisk. Stir peanut butter mixture into stew. To serve, ladle stew into individual bowls. Top with peanuts; serve with lime wedges. Yield: 6 servings