[Home]  [GFCF Recipe Index]  [Frugal Food Storage]  [Biblical Womanhood]  [Archived Recipe Index]  [Links] [New Blog]  [Old Fashioned Education]  [Prairie Homemaker]  [My Mother's Blog] Cheesy Rice Casserole For the Sauce 1/4 cup butter or margarine 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped fresh mushrooms (or 3/4-cup fresh chopped celery or 1/2-cup more chopped onion) 3 tablespoons unbleached or all-purpose flour 2 cups reconstituted milk 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper For the Casserole 2 cups leftover cooked rice 2 cups frozen peas and carrots or mixed vegetables or another combination to suit the foods you have on hand 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese First prepare the sauce. Melt the butter in a 2-quart saucepan. Add the chopped onion and mushrooms. The mushrooms aren't vital to this recipe. They add a pleasant flavor to the sauce, but chopped celery is also tasty. Use whatever you have on hand. If you prefer simply omit the mushrooms or celery and use 1-cup of chopped onion instead. Fry the onion and mushrooms (or celery) in the butter until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the flour and stir until it coats the vegetables. Stir in the milk. Continue to cook and stir until the flour which was coating the vegetabales is completely dissolved in the milk. Add the garlic, salt and pepper. Stirring often, bring the sauce to a boil and allow it to boil for a full 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside. Meanwhile, oil or grease an 8-inch square pan. Measure in the rice and vegetables. Toss together until evenly distributed. Pour the prepared sauce evenly over the rice and veggies. Sprinkle the top with shredded cheese. Bake at 350° for about 30 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the casserole is bubbly. Serve with sliced peaches (fresh or canned), sliced tomatoes (fresh) and if desired a hot muffin. Makes about 4 servings. Cheesy Tuna Rice Casserole If desired you may add 1 or 2 well drained 6-ounce cans of tuna with the rice and vegetables. Proceed as directed. Cheesy Shrimp Rice Casserole Add 1-cup of frozen or thawed tiny or salad shrimp along with the vegetables and rice. This is very good. [Home]  [GFCF Recipe Index]  [Frugal Food Storage]  [Biblical Womanhood]  [Archived Recipe Index]  [Links] [New Blog]  [Old Fashioned Education]  [Prairie Homemaker]  [My Mother's Blog] GFCF = Gluten Free & Casein Free The Christian Counter © FrugalAbundance 2007-2008  :-)  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.  Use hospitality one to another without grudging.  As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.--1 Peter 4:8-10