Adventures in Cookery

[rabidsamfan]

Want Tuna Casserole. Don't ask me why.

Have tuna and little cans of peas. Invest in cream of mushroom soup and elbow noodles.

Don't look up any recipes until the noodles were noodling.

Recipe wants cheese and breadcrumbs. Don't have cheese. Don't have breadcrumbs. Do have crackers. Most important thing recipe provides is time and temperature of oven.

Noodles are done. Begin to assemble casserole.

Discover little can of peas isn't peas. It's corn. Additional cans prove to be cream corn or greenbeans. Go with the greenbeans.

Manage to get tuna juice all over fingers. Ah well.

Can't get all of the cream of mushroom soup out of the can without violence and not feeling violent. But it is annoying. Poptop lid leaves a rim that blocks my spoon. Ah well.

Casserole dish is just barely large enough to hold noodles, soup, beans. After careful mixing, mash the lot down and top with crackers and a bit of butter.

Bake.

Eat.

Okay, it's a bit strange. But it's good strange. And it certainly explains why my sink is full of dirty dishes again.

Comments

[shirebound]

I'm sure it was tasty, but different-tasty! Sometimes I make the elbow noodles, stir in drained tuna, and only add butter, a bit of milk, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. It's a bit plain, but strangely satisfying.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.... sounds tasty.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

It's hard to screw up tuna casserole as long as you've got tuna and a cream soup. My favourite version has canned button mushrooms and potato chips. Be still, my beating heart! My brothers hate tuna casserole. They're obviously deranged.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I was going to make it with homemade mushroom gravy, but that was so good I just ate it over rice. Potato chips, huh? Hmmm.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

The recipe calls for 'half a bag' of potato chips but that was half a bag 50 years ago when we bought potato chips in a box, three bags per box. You crush them -- most go in the mixture and a few on top. No noodles. It was probably meant to be a quick and easy way to add potatoes to the recipe. One could probably use a boxed scalloped potato mix, now that I think of it, but one would need more liquid.

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Oh, the adventures of creative cooking! *giggles*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I either throw something in the microwave or get ridiculous. Don't seem to have a middle ground. :D

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Dishes accumulate so fast when cooking! Sometimes I wonder what on earth I did because everything is now out on the counter and it's all dirty. :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Even when I'm trying to be good and only use one spoon I somehow manage to use four. Is a puzzlement!

[goldvermilion87.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Tuna juice on your fingers?

I never make anything exciting like that with tuna, just tuna melts. But I cover my hands in plastic sandwich bags because I can't stand smelling like tuna. Haha!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*sniffs fingers* Soap and water seem to have done the trick. But I feel that way about onions, so I understand.

[goldvermilion87.livejournal.com]

Haha! I don't even TRY to work with onions. But Tuna and Peanut Butter are the two things that I love, but never can get out of my hands properly...

I think I'm a little over sensitive about it... :-D

[foes-of-reality.livejournal.com]

My thoughts while reading this:

Tuna. Blech. D:

Noodling is my new favorite word.

Recipe wants cheese and breadcrumbs. Don't have cheese. Don't have breadcrumbs. That seems like a metaphor for my life.

Discover little can of peas isn't peas. It's corn. Most amusing bit. I lol'ed. A lot. :D

I have a feeling this wasn't as amusing to you (at least, as it was happening) as it was to me, but I have to say that this kind of brightened up my day a bit. =) [Your account of the ordeal, that is. Not the actual fact that you had to struggle so much.]

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, it amused me too -- which is why it got written up. :D *reminds self to add a "spinning words" tag*