About that green-bean casserole

It seems that every discussion of the menu for an American Thanksgiving dinner includes a casserole made with green beans and a can of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup. It was never on our table, but it was only this morning that I found out why: My brother and I were already university students when that "traditional" Thanksgiving item was invented. A little blurb in the New York Times says that Campbell's test kitchen introduced the recipe for the green-bean casserole in 1955.

Cross-posted on Your Choice.

My goodness NA - you may be the most senior poster on this branch?! I happen to love the green bean casserole, probably because it's topped with canned crispy fried onions -- the only time I use those onions.

I saw it for the first time maybe ten years ago. I don't remember if I tasted it or not.

As I said on YC, I learned at my mother's knee that cooking with canned cream of mushroom soup was for people who didn't know how to make a white sauce and didn't mind throwing away money.

I learned of it yesterday on a local expat forum.

Sounds ok to me. Apparently a proper Thanksgiving meal also is supposed to include pumpkin pie.

I would agree with that, HW.

I interrupt this thread to wish a happy Thanksgiving to anyone celebrating it.

May I suggest this delicious accompionment: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/broccoli-rice-casserole/detail.aspx

It's made with two condensed soups. Cream of chicken and cream of mushroom.

You can substitue Velveeta or Cheez Whiz for the American cheese.

At the Pátzcuaro community Thanksgiving potluck at Priscilla's Restaurant, our friend, G, brought this excellent version of green bean and mushroom casserole. It had perfectly cooked fresh green beans and shiitake and perhaps porcini mushrooms in it. No fried onion bits. We can't get them here, although she could have crumbled chicharrones on top. Luckily, she didn't think of that.