Please please please do Funeral Potatoes.

https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/funeral-potatoes/

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Anonymous wrote:While the original recipe isn't braised tri-color carrots with soy maple salmon and local micro greens or whatever, it's not so gross that eating it is a sacrifice. Come on. It's essentially casserole lasagna, OP.

You don’t have to participate in this thread if you don’t want to. As I said, I have never actually used cottage cheese in a pasta/“Italian” recipe before, though I have heard of that. I’m glad I tried it, but now I know I definitely prefer ricotta, and I see no benefit to cottage cheese. (Unless it’s all I happen to have in the house.)

I will definitely be branching out to other things, and I’m not about a can of soup in a casserole, etc. Don’t try to make this something it is not.

This is kind of my point, OP: calling a totally normal pedestrian accessible dish "questionable" is....making something what it is not. And it's rude.

What I’m not going to do is sit here and pretend a Pioneer Woman casserole is not something many DCUMmers would mock/find questionable when there is LITERALLY a thread called “are casseroles trashy” right now, and a thread several pages deep called “I hate the Pioneer Woman’s voice” a few years ago:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/506287.page

Thanks for playing.

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Anonymous wrote:While the original recipe isn't braised tri-color carrots with soy maple salmon and local micro greens or whatever, it's not so gross that eating it is a sacrifice. Come on. It's essentially casserole lasagna, OP.

You don’t have to participate in this thread if you don’t want to. As I said, I have never actually used cottage cheese in a pasta/“Italian” recipe before, though I have heard of that. I’m glad I tried it, but now I know I definitely prefer ricotta, and I see no benefit to cottage cheese. (Unless it’s all I happen to have in the house.)

I will definitely be branching out to other things, and I’m not about a can of soup in a casserole, etc. Don’t try to make this something it is not.

This is kind of my point, OP: calling a totally normal pedestrian accessible dish "questionable" is....making something what it is not. And it's rude.

Anonymous wrote:While the original recipe isn't braised tri-color carrots with soy maple salmon and local micro greens or whatever, it's not so gross that eating it is a sacrifice. Come on. It's essentially casserole lasagna, OP.

You don’t have to participate in this thread if you don’t want to. As I said, I have never actually used cottage cheese in a pasta/“Italian” recipe before, though I have heard of that. I’m glad I tried it, but now I know I definitely prefer ricotta, and I see no benefit to cottage cheese. (Unless it’s all I happen to have in the house.)

I will definitely be branching out to other things, and I’m not about a can of soup in a casserole, etc. Don’t try to make this something it is not.

Anonymous wrote:This is great (especially when I get tomatoes and feta from the farmers market) and apparently it started out as a Finnish TikTok recipe.

https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/baked-feta-pasta/

OP here. This is exactly what I’m talking about! I’m down for trying this. Thank you!

While the original recipe isn't braised tri-color carrots with soy maple salmon and local micro greens or whatever, it's not so gross that eating it is a sacrifice. Come on. It's essentially casserole lasagna, OP.

Anonymous wrote:Also, fried tuna.

+1. This. I am particularly interested in how it tastes lightly fried.

In a similar vein (but with only pantry ingredients), this is a very good pasta sauce even without the anchovies:

https://www.platingsandpairings.com/roasted-tomato-sauce/

This is great (especially when I get tomatoes and feta from the farmers market) and apparently it started out as a Finnish TikTok recipe.

https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/baked-feta-pasta/

Anonymous wrote:My mom always made this recipe with cream cheese and it was DELICIOUS.

OP here and I will definitely try adding some cream cheese next time!

I cannot wait to see if people will add that they made a TikTok or Instagram recipe…I am forever saving videos that I never actually make!

Anonymous wrote:My mom always made this recipe with cream cheese and it was DELICIOUS.

Actually that sounds even better than the original.

I am putting these ingredients on my shopping list!

Also, fried tuna.

please make that sour cream, canned mandarin orange slices, flaked coconut, and bag o' mini marshmellow salad someone mentioned years ago on DCUM as a classic Easter side dish.

My mom always made this recipe with cream cheese and it was DELICIOUS.

I would love a thread where we make Internet or “possibly questionable” recipes (Instagram, Pinterest, Food Network, back of a product box recipe, whatever) and review them. There are so many things I want to try, and never get around to or never have the courage to. I genuinely trust DCUM opinions more than food blog comments, especially as tons of people comment—without actually making the recipe. (Or making it but wildly changing it!)

Tonight I made this bad boy Pioneer Woman casserole, “Sour Cream Noodle Bake”:
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a11738/sour-cream-noodle-bake/

For a hearty, easy dinner with a meat-and-potatoes husband and two kids? I’d give it an 7.5/10, will make again. I made it pretty much as written, but did add a small can of stewed tomatoes to the sauce, as my husband craves tomatoes when he’s not feeling well.

Next time, I will use ricotta instead of cottage cheese. This was the first time I actually went for it and used cottage cheese in a lasagna-eque recipe, and while it wasn’t bad, I think I just prefer ricotta overall.

I look forward to your contributions! And please, if something doesn’t sound good to you, or you’d “nev-ah condescend to make a CASSEROLE” or whatever, just…don’t. We might learn something here, and have fun. The Food forum is usually the most helpful and positive place on DCUM, let’s not ruin it.