While the casserole is cooking, add boiling water if it starts to dry out.
It's no shock that stay-at-home, casserole-cooking, Bryn Mawr-educated Betty is miserable; she's lonely, unfulfilled and having so much trouble processing the grief over the recent loss of her mother that she suffers from mysterious hand tremors.
Preheat your oven to 350 °F (177 °C) and spray the casserole dish with cooking spray.
Since antiquity, Jewish communities all over the world devised meat casseroles that begin cooking before the lighting of candles that marks the commencement of the Sabbath on Friday night, so as to comply with the religious regulations for observing the Sabbath.
Which is why, this month, How to Eat (the Word of Mouth blog trying to establish the best way to enjoy our favourite dishes), is serving up a big bowl of – what else? – beef stew (or casserole, if you're cooking it in the oven).
The downsizing started with the obvious expendables: PTA meetings, parties where someone is selling something, cooking a casserole for the church potluck we'll probably skip (because of Sadie and the spitting).
NEVER pre-heat a stove for cooking frozen casseroles, stews or soups from your freezer.
After a Twitter poll conducted by my editor concluded that green beans are indeed Christmas food, I found a Paula Deen casserole recipe and got to cooking dinner.
Grease a 13 by 9 inch (33 by 22.9 cm) baking pan or glass casserole dish with butter or cooking spray.
The dish you choose to make a casserole in should be large enough to contain the casserole without it bubbling over while cooking, but small enough to prevent the liquid from reducing too quickly.
For the main, I'd love one of those lamb or veal casseroles, one that's been cooking for hours and makes people feel faint with desire.
