#culinary delights

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Spider-Man Weaving a Web of Culinary Delights - The Mighty Marvel Superheroes’ Cookbook (1977)

[thegentlemanschronicles]

Composed.

[dishesmadeeasy]

Tarragon Cream Salmon Spring Dinner

[100flavor]

Cheddar Bay Crab Cakes-Zesty Lemon Butter Drizzle

[yellowmanula]

Kurkobranie

[thatsbelievable]

[viapu-com]

Indulge in the rich taste of our simple-to-make Beef Stir Fry. A seamless blend of sizzling beef, crisp veggies & mouthwatering spices. Treat yourself to an explosion of flavor at home! #SavorTheFlavor 🍲

[princip1914]

I'm working on the next chapter of The False and the Fair and it involves a cassarole. Specifically this cassarole:

It's tasty and easy to make and kind of a Thanksgiving staple in my family, so I thought, why not make it and document the process! Perhaps 8 months of social isolation has finally cracked me enough to live blog my mediocre cooking skills, but idk I had fun making this. Please, feel free to join me on this thrilling Tuesday afternoon culinary journey.

There are literally only 5 ingredients in this cassarole. What a boon to the culinarily challenged.

First open and drain the green beans, then dump 'em in a bowl and add the cream of mushroom soup.

Seriously. It's ok to feel existential dread while making a cassarole. I have it on good authority from my partner, who is a better cook than I will ever be, that even complicated ~gormet~ casseroles inspire some degree of dread. We've all been trapped inside for 8 months. Sometimes a cassarole is lunch and sometimes it's a cry for help. Sometimes it's both!

Isn't it nice that some things never change? Like this cassrole, which has been the same since 1950 or possibly the dawn of time, no matter what you do to it. Protip: neither laughter nor tears change the flavor. It just fucking is. Isn't that great?

Only don't add all the onions! You gotta save some of those delicious lil cronchies for the finishing touch at the end! Seriously, save about a third of 'em.

Mix it all up and put it all in a cassarole dish. Don't have a cassarole dish? Use a bread pan, a skillet, literally anything that can go in the oven.

Whoops!

Time to bake! Put it in the oven for about 30 min at 350, or until it looks bubbly and warm. That's literally a direction from the actual recipie on frenchfriedonions.com. At that point in the directions, even the manufacturers have stopped trying to pretend that this is baking and have given in to the reality that you are merely warming things up. The honesty is refreshing. We all know what we're doing here and it's not cooking.

This is a crucial step. The fried onions on the top are just delicious.

Once the onions crisp, take it out of the oven. You're done! You made a cassarole! You created something in this cold hard world. Congratulations!