julie's recipe party: Fattening Vegetables

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Not Green Bean Casserole

Before you make the standard green bean casserole for Thanksgiving this year, try this instead! You are not obligated to make that same green bean casserole every year! My daughter demanded it for years, but happily switched over to this.

Cream Cheese, 8 oz
1 Cup Heavy Cream
2 TBSP Chives
2 Frozen French Green Beans or Fresh
1 Frozen White Shoepeg Corn
1 Pkg Oscar Mayer Real Bacon Bits
1 tsp Onion Salt
1 Cup Shredded Swiss Cheese
1 Sleeve Garlic Crackers
1 Stick Butter

Make sauce:
Melt Cream Cheese with cream, seasonings and swiss in pan
Pour over thawed beans and corn and Mix, add Bacon Bits
Put into buttered casserole
Top with 1 sleeve of garlic crackers that have been mixed with 1 Stick melted butter
Bake at 350' 30 minutes

posted under Fattening Vegetables, Holidays |

Asparagus with Bacon Parmesan Sauce

Another recipe created in the sleepless mind of Julie, and so good you will never prepare green bean casserole again! (Assuming you like asparagus, of course.)
* 2 bunches of fresh asparagus, get the skinniest ones you can!
Yes, they will be $8-10 for both. But you won't care!

Steam the asparagus for about 10-12 minutes. They should still be a little crisp.

Add *1/2 package of Oscar Mayer bacon bits

While they're steaming, make the sauce. It takes about 10 minutes too.

Put *2 TBSP. Butter in a fry pan

Whisk in 1 -2 TBSP. Wondra flour (you will have perfectly lump-free gravy & sauce)

Whisk in 1 Cup Half & Half
Add 2 Cups shredded Parmesan (Trader Joes if you have it)

When it's thick, mix it with the asparagus & bacon.

Let's talk about sauce and gravy for a second.

I hope you all have your whisks by now!

Who doesn't love a real fattening vegetable recipe? Thanksgiving is coming and this year, if you never have, you are going to make the perfect gravy, no gravy packets. I was so scared to make gravy the first time, I always got the salty gravy packets, but when I made the real gravy in 1994, I felt like an idiot. It was so easy! If you have a whisk, a good sauce pan (that isn't all black & crusty,) you, too can make the perfect sauce or gravy. Did you know you can make alfredo sauce WAY better than Olive Garden? It's true. My daughter could by the time she was 12 or 13!

One of the best things you can do for yourself or your guests, is to make some Pillsbury garlic bread sticks and tube french bread, and make a batch of Alfredo sauce. You can make a gallon, it won't be enough. I'm pretty starving today. I'm sitting here eating caramel apple candy corn because they only have it once a year.

Alfredo Sauce
(if anyone ordered the Lipton Herb Garlic Mix from Amazon yet, it's amazing in this too)
To make enough for 3-4 people,
4 TBSP. Butter
Stand there the whole time!
Melt it over medium heat
Add some roasted garlic
Add chives if you have them
Add 4-6 Cups Heavy Whipping Cream
Then add a whole bunch of Parm
The canned kind is better to make this than shredded
but only use Kraft! The other parms are gross
Add about 1-2 Cups, you'll know how much

It's like how do you know when you're going to go into labor?
No one knew! I asked and asked and no one really gave me an answer.

posted under Fattening Vegetables, Sauces, Tips and Tools |

Crockpot Corn Off The Cob

This corn tastes like it was just cut off a cob! It's real fattening too.

2-3 Pkgs frozen White Shoepeg Corn
3 TBSP Honey
1/2 Stick Butter
1- 8 oz. Cream Cheese

Combine in crockpot
Cook on low 3-6 hours
If you want, you could add a little pkg of Real Bacon Bits