Tuna Noodle Casserole!

I like to mix in a can of cat food, just to f*ck with them. This stuff is my favorite...nobody knows the difference...



Then you tell two or three of your best friends and just watch people eat it and enjoy the show.

Who's special?

It wasn't a family dish and I tended to avoid it in school. In effect, I'm useless here on your thread. But, I wanted to say hi, chun-chun. I get out to the cape often, my parents live there.

...it's cat/dog food...I didn't know they made it for both

I make tuna casserole the basic way, but I like to add a can of cream of mushroom soup. Sometimes I top it with crunched potato chips or corn flake crumbs and sometimes I add shredded cheddar cheese.

It tastes a lot better than that stuff in the box.

Tuna Noodle Casserole
Do the tuna and cream sauce together and serve over rice cooked separately. Peas are a fine addition.

If it must be a really one-dish meal, then elbows or bow-tie pasta.

Thanks, kickycanI In the event that I need to stretch the recipe to feed the masses, then I'll be sure to use your suggestion! (sounds interesting!)

Hi, littlek, it's good to hear from you!....."Who's special?"......I own a small sandwich shop where we now offer a daily "special".....many of our customers are of senior status and look forward to the foods of yesteryear! It's kind of fun trying to find foods to surprise them with!

colorbook, I hadn't thought about adding cheese OR potato chips!

Tomkitten, I have never heard of serving it over rice! Is that the way it's served in other areas of the country?....I know I'D like it better! Thanks!

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No, I don't think using rice in this dish is particularly a regional thing. I just happen to like rice, and find that except for things like lasagna, rice can go pretty well instead of the pasta in lots of pasta dishes, but I've never heard of anyone else using rice in this particular dish. (I don't recommend rice for a macaroni and cheese casserole, though; that would be really yucky.)

I spent a lot of time in New Orleans when I was younger, living there on and off, and going to school there, so rice was the thing; I don't remember having potatoes at all, and back then pasta wasn't much in people's minds. So it was always either rice or grits.

One thing I always had to get used to was changing from maple syrup when I came back North, and then changing to cane syrup when I went back South.

Tuna Noodle Casserole
Oops - changing to maple syrup - bad typo! bad typo! I guess I ws getting so hungry just reading these posts that my brain got all muddled up.

I used to make a tuna casserole with peas, tuna, cream of mushroom soup, but rice instead of the noodles.

Since this is a food forum I will refrain from telling you what my husband called this dish!