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Guilty Pleasures -- The Confession Thread

Oh, there's an old potluck recipe that uses those Cheese Nips or Cheez-it crackers crushed up as a gratin to a rich vegetable base.

https://www.food.com/recipe/broccoli-casserole-90340

The recipe has a layer of cheese crackers crushed, a layer of steamed broccoli and English peas, then a layer of a mixture of grated cheese, chopped onion, cream of mushroom soup, mayo, salt and pepper. The layers are repeated and topped with the crushed crackers again. I threw in a teaspoon of mustard in the cheese layer to give it a little more French tilt.

It's not a healthy way to eat vegetables, but, on the other hand, if you're eating the vegetables, you're eating the vegetables.

I'm usually good with steamed broccoli with some butter, but I just hand a yen for the casserole, and I don't go to potlucks any longer, nor live around family to have gatherings, so if I want something like that, I just have to make it.

Here is a pic from the web. I don't crush the crackers that finely, as I think it detracts from their crispness:

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OK so kind of like how people crush up Corn Flakes for crumbs. I was imagining some God awful thing that your aunt would bring to Thanksgiving that everyone in the family would avoid at all costs!
 
Yes.

My family never had any old relatives who couldn't cook. Grandmother got to the point that she didn't cook, and Mother never did, but there weren't any other elderly at our holiday gatherings, mostly my siblings and their spawn.

I was always a casserole fan, but my family didn't make or serve casseroles. I usually had them at church dinners or at friends' homes. My family always had very basic fare. My brother's wife always made the same dishes, and her broccoli and rice was about as plain as it gets.

If you've never thought of using crushed cheese crackers, they'd be really good on asparagus, twice baked potatoes, or baked mac & cheese.

I don't do gratin often, but it's nice for a change.
 
I can't honestly say that broccoli has ever been one of my pleasures, guilty or otherwise.
 
I have loved broccoli since the first time I had it around junior high or just before. I remember seeing it on the steam table at the county hospital cafeteria when Grandmother took us there one Sunday afternoon for lunch.

All members of the cruciform family have a different reaction based on genetics and taste buds. I guess I'm in the faction that doesn't taste the bitter.

I've always found it funny that some don't like Brussels sprouts or broccoli. I've recently tried to find broccoli rabe at the market, and it's not even available. It's fairly new in restaurants, so they are probably buying up the market until it is grown more.
 
My mom worked for the phone company for almost 40 years and the workers in our state put together a cookbook in the late 60's/early 70's and it has a cheeseburger casserole in it that I know my mom was making well before I was even thought of . it's super basic too: 1 pound of hamburger, 1 onion, 1 green pepper, 1 can of Cream of Mushroom soup, and cheese for the topping . You can substitute any meat you want for the burger. I know she has made it with chicken before. I convinced her to use hot dogs once when I was little, and one dark day in the late 80's she decided to use tuna, we don't talk about those days in our family....:rotflmao:
 
spunkfunker said:
My mom worked for the phone company for almost 40 years and the workers in our state put together a cookbook in the late 60's/early 70's and it has a cheeseburger casserole in it that I know my mom was making well before I was even thought of . it's super basic too: 1 pound of hamburger, 1 onion, 1 green pepper, 1 can of Cream of Mushroom soup, and cheese for the topping . You can substitute any meat you want for the burger. I know she has made it with chicken before. I convinced her to use hot dogs once when I was little, and one dark day in the late 80's she decided to use tuna, we don't talk about those days in our family....:rotflmao:
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My mom made the same thing. She was the manager of the middle school lunchroom and she made it for us all the time. It was one of our favorites. When I moved in to my parents house to help take care of them, I made it often. It was one of their favorites. Never used hot dogs or tuna, but she added a can of tomato soup. The recipe is in that book I posted a picture of, which is from Telephone Pioneers of Alabama.
 
Oy talking about relatives that can't cook my "grandmother" makes god awful tomato "sauce" it is so thin you can read through it it is a no cling rinse that she makes in the pressure cooker and burns, She burns pre sliced cookie dough sweet potatoes, She makes wretched chop suey out of ginger snap cookies. And EVERYTHING EVERYTHING IS BLAND I'm talking mormon beige bland! Completely devoid of any and all flavor not even salt or pepper! One thanksgiving I literally brought italian seasoning with me and covered the bird with it they couldn't understand how the turkey had so much flavor! My aunt tried her hand at a god awful orange jello mold that was 1/2 gelatinized and once un molded sloshed everywhere and what wasn't sloshy gave people violent diarrhea I wasn't born for that but enjoy that story very much! My "grandmother" had a friend who boiled water so long she boiled through the pan and started a fire. And on the broccoli front I have always loved it brussel sprouts not until my late teens and asparagus beginning 20's
 
I think the cheeseburger casserole thing goes back at least to the 1950's and was indeed the inspiration for the commercial marketing of Hamburger Helper.

Of course, the casserole is much better, but fast preps still sell.

Chili Mac and Shepherd's Pie fall in close behind.

Although I am a fan of rich casseroles, the thing I always liked about Chili Mac was that addition of stewed tomatoes, in pieces, that adds acidity to the dish. I also like the loose nature of the dish as opposed to the thick and sweet tomato sauce that we had with all other pasta.

I wholly agree on any thick sauce that is thinned and underspiced. It just comes off as cheap.
 
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Telephone Pioneers of Virginia here, both my sister and I have that cookbook. Lots of interesting stuff, but you can tell is was compiled in the 70's most definitely! Some of the best(WORST) cookbooks are from the 60's my grandma had some and after she passed my mom got them and they are wild! My favorite one is a grilling book from Better Homes and Gardens from like 1965, it's a wonder anyone survived that decade without having a heart attack!
 
Sorry to say but Hamburger Helper has NOTHING on this casserole !!! [-X !!!
 
Oh god - this could be a very long list...

Ice cold classic Coke...

Greasy fried salty Potato Chips...

Any potato chips with Onion Soup Mix dip...

Movie theater popcorn with lots of that disgusting oil they call "butter flavor topping"...

Cheetos Puffs...

Cheese Its...

Oh hell - pretty much any carbohydrate.
 
omg.

Deep fried pork rinds.

Just wrong on so many levels.

But so fucking right.
 
I don't know how but i forgot the most important ingredient in the hamburger casserole! A Box of Kraft!!!!!
 
^ But Kraft Dinner is the guiltiest pleasure itself.
 
I've never eaten it by itself I will at least throw some nuggets or tenders in the oven as well.
 
I think the thing that makes Kraft Mac & Cheese popular is that they managed to get the salt high enough and the dehydrated sharp cheese sharp enough to create the generate memory of sharp cheese.

I liked it as a kid, but never bought it as an adult, as I liked to make mac and cheese in a less rich way, with real cheese and more of a pasta flavor coming through. I also like elbow macaroni much more than the straight pasta Kraft uses.
 
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