{"id":611,"date":"2019-12-07T00:07:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/?p=611"},"modified":"2019-12-07T00:07:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:07:48","slug":"lose-the-canned-soup-keep-the-potato-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/2019\/12\/07\/lose-the-canned-soup-keep-the-potato-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose the canned soup, keep the potato chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week later and I\u2019m still stuffed from a long Thanksgiving weekend with my family.<\/p>\n

Mom made all of my must-haves, and added a wonderful appetizer spread a little before dinnertime. Throughout the weekend, Mom also offered leftover potato dumplings (a family favorite<\/a>) and we ate take-out when we were tired of leftovers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s enough that I\u2019m not sure how I\u2019ve continued to eat so much after getting home.<\/p>\n

And yet, there\u2019s blogs to write.<\/p>\n

I was trying to find something simple and also different from traditional Thanksgiving fare for this week\u2019s recipe, and also something different. Instead, as I was talking about my next recipe with Mom and Grandma, I came up with something that met the first two requirements but was one of my favorites. After talking about it, though, I had a hankering.<\/p>\n

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Tuna noodle casserole ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I first made this Epicurious<\/a> tuna noodle casserole during my year of casseroles, and loved it so much I\u2019ve been making it–even without writing about it–for years now. It tastes a lot like the classic casserole (with potato chips on top!!), but instead of canned cream-of-something soup, there\u2019s a wonderful homemade leek sauce that makes it even better.<\/p>\n

While I more or less followed my previous recipe<\/a>, which altered the original slightly, it was interesting to see how it turned out in a Dutch oven versus a casserole dish.<\/p>\n

The original recipe calls for mixing the sauce on top of noodles, and it calls for buttering a separate casserole dish after the mixture is prepared, but that sounded like a lot of dishes when the Dutch oven could do it all. (Full disclosure: In the interest of saving time, I did cook the noodles in a separate pot while I prepared the sauce, but they can be made in the same Dutch oven or prepared in it in advance.)<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure if not being able to butter a separate dish would make the casserole stick, so I upped the butter (even though I\u2019m sure there\u2019s more than enough fat). Some of the edges did end up sticking a bit but I liked the browning that the Dutch oven gave to the casserole. So, all in all, I\u2019d say the Dutch oven works great, and tuna noodle casserole is even more amazing now that I know it tastes great and is adaptable.<\/p>\n

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Mmmm. Potato chips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s what I did:<\/p>\n

Ingredients\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n