Of Bad Recipes and Good…

I’m still a wee bit sick, but I am indeed on the mend which is nice.

To help me feel better yesterday, I thought I’d make myself some soup for dinner.  I opened my cupboard and pulled out a can of Chicken and Italian Herb soup.  Here’s what the label looked like:

This soup tasted like it was simmered in someones dirty ass.  Not to put too fine a point on it.

Seriously, the shit was naaaaa-staaaay!

At the store, I remember looking for a big can of chicken soup and I thought this might fit the bill.  Well, it doesn’t.  If you read the label it has no MSG and only 80 calories per serving.  In other words, it has no taste.

And it had big, hard, fairly raw garbanzo beans in it.  WTF?  Who DOES that?  Ewww.

So now on to GOOD recipes that have fat and cholesterol and FLAVOR!

Several folks out there commented on my post where I mentioned my Thanksgiving favorite dish– Betty Rasmussen’s Cheesy Mustard Cauliflower casserole.  Requests were put in for the recipe.

Normally I would balk a bit about putting out such a gloriously simple, yet deliciously decadent recipe from the family vault.  But the damn thing has been in local cookbooks (the kind that Midwesterner church-goers like to put together for fundraising).

So, without further ado:  CHEESY MUSTARD CAULIFLOWER CASSEROLE

1 medium-sized head of cauliflower

1/2 cup Mayonnaise (real, not fat free or anything)

2 tsp yellow mustard (do NOT use dijon or stone ground or any weird mustard)

3/4 cup (or more) grated, sharp cheddar cheese

Cut the cauliflower into small florets and cook until just tender– do not overcook or the dish will turn out mushy!  Butter up a casserole dish and spread the cauliflower inside.  Combine the mayo and mustard and mix until uniform.  Pour the mixture over the cauliflower.  Put the cheddar cheese on top.  Bake at 375 until the cheese melts.

See?  Devilishly easy- and insanely tasty.  Serve it up this holiday and do Ms. Rasmussen proud!