You absolutely must have a can of French's French Fried Onion Rings to garnish the top. The rest is just a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup and a dash of Worchestershire Sauce. Accept no substitutes.

I didn't even realize it was a Southern dish. I thought everyone had that. We always did growning up, as did my ex inlaws. And the friends I am eating with today are making it.
And we're all from Western NY!

Oh, and you have to use french-cut green beans. Though in the areas where this traditional dish is served, they are now referred to as Freedom-cut® green beans.

Tampering with this recipe can be very dangerous unless you are kin and well-known to be a harmlessly eccentric Yankee.

I'm a harmlessly eccentric Yankee in a quirky part of the south, and dinner is for other harmlessly eccentric displaced Yankees, lesbians, Hindus and such. But they want a non-quirky casserole, which they'll now get thanks to your sage advice.

I'm carmelizing onions as well as adding the beloved French's. While my onions are doing their thing, would it be blasphemy to sautee some mushrooms as well?

You absolutely must have two cans of French's French Fried Onion Rings to garnish the top.

Also? Marshmallows in whatever sweet potato/yam dish you're making.

Here are some non-traditional recipes from our Southern cookbook collection. Yankees should use with extreme caution. We fought a war over this, remember.

We were shocked, shocked, I say, to not find a recipe for green bean casserole in Miss Lillian and Friends: The Plains, Georgia Family Philosophy and Recipe Book. The following recipes are transcribed verbatim from lesser works.

Country Cooking: Recipes from the Callaway Gardens

Green Bean Casserole

Everybody has their favorite green bean casserole.... hope this one becomes a favorite with you.... not fancy.... just good!

2 #303 cans cut green beans
1 cup chopped onion (use a little green onion with tops too)
1/4 cup butter
4 Tbs flour
1 small can / jar mushroom pieces
1 1/2 cups milk
1 tsp Soy Sauce
1/2 tsp black pepper
Salt to taste
1/2 lb. Velveeta cheese

Saute finely chopped onions in butter.... Add flour and blend. Stir in milk and add other seasonings. Cook until it begins to thicken. Remove from fire and add cheese, stirring until melted. Add mushrooms with juice from can. Blend. Pour sauce over beans. Place in casserole and bake at 325 for about 40 minutes. Serves 8.


A Taste of Georgia
published by the Newman Junior Service League

Green Bean Delight

Oven: 325-350 for 40 minutes.

1 Tb Margarine
2 1# cans sliced or french-style green beans
1 10 3/4 oz. can Cream of Celery Soup undiluted
1 3 oz. can Chow Mein noodles
1 1/2 C. shredded sharp cheese

Butter 2 qt. casserole. Combine well-drained beans and soup. Pour into casserole. Cover top with Chow Mein noodles. Top this with cheese, covering noodles well. Bake in a 325-350 oven about 40 minutes until cheese melts and begins to toast. If mixed before baking time, do not add noodles and cheese until ready to bake.

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My sister made nineteen pies for the Rainbow Center dinner. When she woke up this morning, she realize there was no pie in the house. So she immediately made two pecan pies. Sadly, they were not paper-shell pecans from West Georgia.

Two cans?!? My word. It seems dangerously decadent. People would talk.

Velveeta? Chow Mein noodles? LESSER WORKS INDEED.

And, yes, two cans. But set aside any thoughts of dangerous decadance...we take the olives from the crudite tray and stick them on our fingers and then we eat them.

I thought the use of the word "saute" was an indication these people were getting a little close to the edge.

All that talk of food made me so hungry I had to rush off and make breakfast with homemade pork sausage, scrambled eggs and hashbrowns.

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While my onions are doing their thing, would it be blasphemy to sautee some mushrooms as well?

Fuck me, yes. There should be small dark cubes of mushroomoid from the soup cans, and that is it. And really, no caramelized onions neither. Commie.

Plain from cans is how Jesus, the Apostles, Martin Luther King, and Johnny Cash eat it at the feast in Heaven, and that's how you should bloody well eat it too.

wolfdaddy, you eat your fingers at thanksgiving? you gay people are weird.

Oooooh, I warned you. Latest news is they've fired on Ft. Sumter.

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Weird, yes, but not decadent. Please excuse me so my oil-glistened-loincloth-wearing-Apollo feeds me my Thanksgiving dinner off my citrus-wood table whilst I recline on some Tyrian purple encrusted with pearls, won't you?

I have to say I've never had green bean casserole until the last few years. Not one of my faves, but OK if a bit rich. However, I never knew people on the east coast had dressing with oysters, either.

We also have a weird family stuffing tradition: we always have a sweet (with apples and raisins) stuffing made from bread, not a savory one from cornbread. Sorry Stovetop fans.

And before someone asks,I can't think of a single dish Mom made that contained mushrooms.