Thanksgiving Green Bean Casserole

[Fishslayer]

Grandpas Mac and cheese for the grand daughter is a holiday treat. Left overs go home!!!

You can NEVER go wrong with mac & cheese!

 

[DWalt]

At our house the GB casserole is not a Thanksgiving dinner staple, but my wife occasionally makes it. If it shows up on the table Thursday, I wouldn't object. I like it. I also prefer the canned cranberry jelly over cranberries any other way. And pumpkin pie to the chocolate cake my wife is planning to serve this week.

 

[Rule3]

I'll pass. I like my green beans when they are still green in color. Not in some mishmash of light brown goop.
Fortunately the infamous casserole has never appeared at any of my Thanksgiving dinners.

Yum yum, canned green beans and canned sodium mushrooms.



You said it
It's not real hard to use fresh means make some cream of mushroom soup (scratch) and add some onions, but then we make cranberry sauce from whole fresh cranberries that is real hard as well, Boil some water add sugar and berries,

 

[Fishslayer]

And pumpkin pie to the chocolate cake my wife is planning to serve this week.

Costco was floggin' pumpkin pies the size of manhole covers for $6 the other day. Of COURSE I bought one!

 

[dmn57]

I like it, but it'd take a bit of thought to come up with something I don't.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The young'uns in this house won't touch GBC. They view it as unnecessary filler that takes away room for the stars of the show..

I'm with them.

 

[lkabug]

As a useless dish or an American tradition, it sure beats the heck out of
corn meal mush!

 

[soFlaNative]

Nothing like a plate overloaded with sides of GBC, sweet taters w' mallow and the canned cranberry glop.
Strictly bird and stuffing for the mandatory second pass.

 

[Golddollar]

Does anyone truly like green bean casserole?

It seems like it is considered a Thanksgiving tradition; we have always had it with our holiday meals. But after some thought, it really seems like a useless dish. I feel as if it is only liked because of the junk food flavor - that salty mushroom soup taste. What do y'all think, useless dish or American tradition?

Definitely an American tradition in my extended family, all year long.

 

[Stevens]

I do like Green bean casserole and beans about any other way too.

Re Cranberries, a few years ago we had friends from Argentina visit around Thanksgiving time. They arrived in Miami and spent a couple of days there, then rented a car to drive up to Louisiana. In Miami they saw lots of adds featuring cranberries on TV and in stores, Cranberries are not well known in Argentina so they wanted to try some, they stopped in a store and bought a bag of fresh cranberries to snack on during the drive. On arrival in Thibodaux they asked me "what is so good about Cranberries, we ate some and thought they were terrible!"
I explained how they are usually prepared and we all had a good laugh about it. They did enjoy Cranberry jelly.
Steve W

 

[TX-Dennis]

I love fresh green beans, but I loathe canned green beans. I do not like the casserole, but others seem to. So, I usually take a bite or two and tell them it was good.

 

[Chuck24]

My mom liked it, but she also liked the canned cranberry sauce and fried okra, so there's that.

 

[wood714]

I love fresh green beans, but I loathe canned green beans. I do not like the casserole, but others seem to. So, I usually take a bite or two and tell them it was good.

My mom's canned "Mason Jar" green beans are most excellent cooked in bacon grease.

 

[ShivasIrons]

GBC for the win! We love it and make it every year.

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Following basically the same recipe my wife makes a mean BROCCOLI casserole that will be on the menu for Thursday. Delicious!!!

 

[raisedin99]

My mom's canned "Mason Jar" green beans are most excellent cooked in bacon grease.

All my life I thought that was how everyone prepared them...

terry

 

[rbmac52]

I put Thanksgiving Green Bean Casserole in the same category as Christmas Fruit Cake...

 

[BearBio]

My Paternal grandmother was a "Bush/Busch". Seems one spelling was originally Catholic and one was Protestant. Anyway, her family was Austrian Protestants all the way back to Martin Luther. Green Bean Casserole was a family tradition. To show/prove they were not Catholic, they put meat in it and served it on Fridays; to prove they weren't Jewish, they used ham or bacon.

 

[delcrossv]

I always liked the green bean casserole, but for the last several years my wife has made roasted Brussels sprouts instead; they're very good and go well with the other things.

We usually have both. Roasted sprouts with bacon and onion yum!

An America tradition. I couldn't wait and actually made one last week. Yum yum, eat em up.

Ditto.

Not a fan and don’t get me started on that weird candied yams and marshmallow horror!!

Yer not from around here are ya?

 

[Ethang]

If you have not tried homemade might I suggest the Good Eats recipe. No canned mushroom soup in this one. It's worth the effort.