Squash Casserole

[sosoftail]

Hi. I am looking for fast and easy recipes for squash casserole. They also have to be delicious! I love squash casserole and a restaurant here called "Wades" has the best so far I have eaten. I even wondered if I made stuffing and added yellow squash if it would be the same thing.

Wades is a cool restaurant and have a web page called eatatwades.com. I started years ago collecting their refrigerator billboard magnets and I think I have about every one they ever made. I even got them to mail me some I was missing when I was going through chemo.

I never ate squash casserole in my life until after the chemo and I got my taste buds back. I am afraid it has put quite a bit of weight back on me. I craved that plus honey butter on everything and eggs of all the weird stuff. I even sent a relative out in the middle of the night to get me a garden omelet with LOTS of cheese! If I have to eliminate all the fatty stuff from my diet to allow my weight to come back down I will except for the squash casserole.

So anyone got any yummy recipes for it? Thanks a bunch! CC:)

[cat lover]

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Here is one of several squash recipes we like:


Yellow Squash OR Zucchini Casserole

2 lbs squash, thickly sliced (7 cups)
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 10 3/4 oz reduced fat cream of chicken soup
1 cup fat free sour cream
1 cup shredded carrot
1/4 cup fat free chicken broth
2 cups herb seasoned stuffing mix

Cook squash with onion in boiling water 5 to 10 minutes. Drain. Combine soup and sour cream and stir in shredded carrot. Fold in drained squash and onion and toss chicken broth with stufing. Spread half of stuffing in a 12 x 8 x 2" baking dish. Spoon vegetable mixture over top and sprinkle with remaining stuffing. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Makes 6 servings

[sosoftail]

Thanks for the recipe!

I nevercooked much growing up since I was raised by my great-aunt. She said iI was a farm hand so I always worked in the fields and with the farm animals and never got a chance to cook.

When I married I married at 16 to a man that was 28. Common for farm kids to do. His mother taught me to cook only the dishes her baby liked to eat. I divorced him at 18 and he went back to his mom. That man did not even know how to wash his own hair because his mother did it for him all his life.

To make it short I married again and moved to SC. Had 3 kids but divorced about 11 years ago. He was another bum. Gambled and pawned everything even my wedding rings that I paid for. Now that all my kids are grown I have more time to learn to cook stuff I like. If my kids had their way when they were little they would have eaten all pizza, junk food and burgers.

I am lurking on several boards and when I learn my way around will probably be a regular especially if I want a recipe. This seems like a friendly place and the sort of scavenger hunt to find words is a lot of fun. I have not won yet but keep trying. Thanks a lot. CC

[cat lover]

No problem! Hope you like it! This is a very friendly place and we love sharing recipes or helping find a lost one or just something somebody wants to try and doesn't have the reicpe for. Hope to see you around!

[echos]

I just love to cut up a small hubbard squash and cut it in half or 4ths, then serate the top and put on <real. butter> and some fresh grated parmesan, and or Ramano cheese on the top. Bake it till golden, and this makes a great crust and can be cut into squares. Not exactly a cassrole, but really good, and managable.

[cat lover]

Here's another good one:


Creole Squash


2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp onion,chopped
2 tbsp green bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
2 cups canned stewed tomaotes OR fresh tomaotes
black pepper to taste
1 1/2 lbs yellow squash, cubed
vegetable oil spray
1/2 cup plain bread crumbs
1 tbsp margarine

Put first 4 ingredients into a saucepan and cook 5 minutes over low heat. Add tomatoes and balck pepper. Simmer 30 minutes or till sauce is thick. Boik the squash 10 minutes and drain and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray a 11 x 17" casserole dish with cooking spray. Arrange a layer of squash in the bottom and in layers and add sauce, squash, sauce, and continue in this order till all the squash is ised finishing with a layer of sauce. Sprinkle bread crumbs over top an dot with margarinr and bake about 30 minutes or till it is bubbling. Serves 10 at 1/2 cup servings

[sosoftail]

So many varieties of squash casserole. I'll probably try them all out until my family finds their favorite. Although all my kids are grown and I have one 4 year old granddaughter my daughter recently moved back in with the baby and her husband. My youngest son is 19 and still home with his homeless girlfriend. She has no family here. With only 2 bedrooms it is crowded but we all take turns cooking and they all have favorite foods but the squash casserole is a favorite of them all along with chicken recipes and pizza.

Some are sort of on diets and trying to find less fattening foods that still taste good. Times are hard here in SC as all textile mills shut down due to cheap imports so jobs are hard to find. At least anything decent. Saving money and finding one or two dish meals that feed everyone is a must. We must all pull together as a family to survive even if it means sacrificing some comforts.

I'll be visiting the boards frequently and looking for money stretchers.

Not related to food but I just found one power bill drainer. This house was built in the 60's. The ceiling lights are giving me problems with the old wiring and blowing light bulbs and shorting out to not working at all. Someone noticed my power meter was spinning really fast and asked me what was on. It was early morning and everyone was still asleep so no extras were on. I went inside and cut off the 2 ceiling lights that were on. Kitchen and family room and the meter immediatley slowed down. Can'y afford an electrician right now and I know a lot of wiring and fixtures need replacing but until then the ceiling fixtures in all rooms will be off unless absoultely necessary. It may pay to find out by turing on one item at a time to find out where the biggest power drains are not just us but everyone.

It is cooler and I like the fresh air so I open my windows and turn the thermostat to off for the heatpump but notice I still hear it coming on and off. I have a big fuse outside on the outside brick wall and cannot figure out how to pull it out or even if I should. Perhaps there is a breaker in the store room for it but don't want to turn off my sump pump. No rain in a long time but if we do water may get in the heating system like it did when we first moved in and the power had been off if I turn off the wrong thing. Any ladies have a husband that knows about this stuff?

As far as cooking I have a big crockpot, microwave, built-in oven and stove top. All original appliances I am sure except the microwave and that is such a big one it has to have a surge protector. If I run it wide open or a long time it trips out the breaker without the surge protector. Now it just trips the surge protector so some cooking can get frustrating. I try and use the cooktop and oven mostly.

My adopted mother would not use a microwave even though we gave her one. She would not have it in her house. She said it caused cancer. Who knows? Afterall they used to be a lot bigger and called radar ranges.

I am not good with long drawn out recipes that take hours but prefer faster easier stuff to save time and on some things have found it cheaper to buy it from the store rather than buy all the ingredients. After all they don't sell a pinch of this or that. Fresh home made stuff does taste better if you can cook at all. Everyone here rushes around and rarely eats at the table and eat at different times. I guess times are a lot different. When I grew up on the farm we all ate at the table and at the same time. A big bell on a pole was rang to bring us all in from the fields when chow was ready. All those fattening foods with butter and gravy and grease but none of us was fat. Guess it was the physical work. I felt better then too but at almost 50 now I guess I can't keep up anymore. I also have fibromyalgia though a new drug (Lyrica) is making it a little better.

These are friendly boards and friendly people and so are all the partner sites. VERY helpful! Thanks, CC

[cat lover]

Sosoftail, you might go over to MomsMenu sister site FamilyCorner. It is a place with lots of different subjects and you might find an answer on your electric problem over there. Here on MomsMenu we just talk everything with foods. Both places are very friendly and you will find lots of the same people over there that are on this site.

As far as quick and different recipes we have so many threads here with all sorts of recipes and ideas. Have you had much of a chance to look around alot yet? If you need something special just ask and I'll try to help you find it! Glad to see you posting and looking forward to seeing you around!

[ajrsmom]

I think that it's wonderful that you care so much about your family! You are obviously working hard to try to make everyone in your house happy. I hope that they are doing the same for you.

If you will let us know what other foods that your family likes, I'm sure that we can come up with some good menus for you that won't break the bank! :D

I was going to suggest that you join FamilCorner.com (http://www.familycorner.com/forums/), too. There's a Frugal Living forum with frugal day to day tips and frugal cooking on there, plus a "What's for Dinner" thread where everyone shares recipes and menus. There's so many more topics there, too. I think that almost all of the members here on MM are members of FC, too!

I hope to talk to you more real soon!

Hugs,
Tami