Green Bean Casserole?!?!?

[Charlotte ~08]

Okay, I've got to ask as I keep reading about Green Bean Casserole on here...do you only eat or serve it on holidays, like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, or parties?

I've never heard of it before...must be a USA thing.

I love green beans but I like mine plain as a side dish or with butter. :eat:

Is it a "must have" on special occasions in your home or do you hate it?!!!

 

[Pixiedust34]

The only day of the entire year I make a green bean casserole is on Thanksgiving. Dh and ds like it. Dd and I don't. : )

 

[Kristineamb]

Is it a "must have" on special occasions in your home or do you hate it?!!!

I like it, don't love it...but we do have it on Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc...

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Love it. But I only even think about it at holidays. My mom used to make a special version with canned asparagus instead of the green beans. Loved that, too.

No on in my family likes either version, so if I make it, I will have to eat it. I also like them plain with salt and butter..

 

[SpecialK]

It's a recipe that calls for mushroom soup and canned fried onions, so if you don't like beans you never taste them. It's a holiday "must have" for a lot of folks. I thought it was great when I was a kid. Now that I actually like vegetables, it doesn't appeal to me.

 

[MomofKatie]

We only eat green bean casserole on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love it, and it is the only way DH will eat green beans. DD hates green beans in all forms, so she doesn't eat it. I have made the same casserole but used broccoli instead of green beans- not as yummy, but DD will eat it.

We only have it 2 times a year mainly because it pretty much cancels out any "healthy veggie" credit by covering the beans in cream of mushroom soup and french fried onions. But it is yummy!!

 

[Christine]

I absolutely hate it. Even as a kid. To me, it is just nasty. On top of it--I think the recipe calls for canned or frozen green beans. Yuck. And why would you want to ruin fresh green beans that way?

I don't know--for me, Thanksgiving is about pulling out all the stops, making stuff homemade, doing something special--not opening a bunch of cans and dumping them in a dish.

Can you tell I hate it?

 

[Uncle Remus]

I absolutely hate it. Even as a kid. To me, it is just nasty. On top of it--I think the recipe calls for canned or frozen green beans. Yuck. And why would you want to ruin fresh green beans that way?

I don't know--for me, Thanksgiving is about pulling out all the stops, making stuff homemade, doing something special--not opening a bunch of cans and dumping them in a dish.

Can you tell I hate it?

I agree with ya, why ruin good fresh green beans in that green bean casserole, yuck. BUT I like both. In fact, I copied some recipe off the DIS just 2-3 days ago for a fresh green bean recipe, one with mushrooms, bacon, red onion, cider vinegar and it was really good, thank you whoever posted it.

I'm makin' the mushroom soup recipe with canned beans, with a dash of tabasco. I'm cravin' 'em now that y'all are postin' these food threads.

 

[clarabelle]

This is the traditional GBC recipe

http://www.campbellskitchen.com/recipedetail.aspx?recipeID=24099


Most people I know pretty much have it at the holidays and for Church potlucks and family reunions -things like that.

 

[Tink888]

Personally I like it - I make it for the holidays and then a couple of times a year when I get hungry for it.

Green beans are one of my favoriate veggies so I like them all sorts of ways.

 

[MdmMim]

We never have it, never want it.

 

[iluvliloandstitch]

oh i love it...it is so good...we usually only have it around Thanksgiving or Christmas though...

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I absolutely hate it. Even as a kid. To me, it is just nasty. On top of it--I think the recipe calls for canned or frozen green beans. Yuck. And why would you want to ruin fresh green beans that way?

I don't know--for me, Thanksgiving is about pulling out all the stops, making stuff homemade, doing something special--not opening a bunch of cans and dumping them in a dish.

Can you tell I hate it?

It doesn't work with wonderful bright fresh green beans, it has to be the soft, soggy, drab green ones in a can!

 

[Nancy]

My mother in law makes it every Thanksgiving. Not sure why because no one really eats it. I think it looks nasty but I also don't like green beans or mushrooms..so I won't even try it.

 

[mumom95]

Okay, I've got to ask as I keep reading about Green Bean Casserole on here...do you only eat or serve it on holidays, like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, or parties?

I've never heard of it before...must be a USA thing.

I love green beans but I like mine plain as a side dish or with butter. :eat:

Is it a "must have" on special occasions in your home or do you hate it?!!!

I know so many people that love the green bean casserole, but I personnaly hate it. My MIL makes it every Thanksgiving and Christmas though. I much prefer to eat steamed green beans.

 

[MrsHerbie53]

I love it, but only with French-style green beans. We may make it for any get together meal (holiday or otherwise), but don't have to have it.

 

[Topper]

I copied some recipe off the DIS just 2-3 days ago for a fresh green bean recipe, one with mushrooms, bacon, red onion, cider vinegar and it was really good, thank you whoever posted it.

You're quite welcome!

 

[OK!]

I freakin' love green bean casserole and would probably eat it weekly if I could. That said, I generally only end up eating it a few times a year, on holidays, with the odd time thrown in when it just strikes me as a good thing to make that night.

 

[GeorgeG]

I don't like it at all, but there's a lot of stuff I don't like. If I had to guess, it probably pops up around the holidays since there are usually plenty of other options for people who don't like it. For clarification, I do like green beans, a lot, but I don't like anything all goo'd up.

 

[blanq]

I won't eat anything that has cream of mushroom soup in it; that stuff makes me want to hurl.