Spaghetti Pizza, right, and King Fong casseroles can be made a day ahead for a quick supper.The kids are back in school (or, if you live in Georgia or Alabama, they soon will be). The pool’s ready to shut down. And the days will be getting shorter.
The fast-food meals that worked during the summer months no longer seem adequate. You want the family to have something a little more substantial, especially on the rare occasion when everyone sits down at the table at the same time. But with both parents working, it’s hard to come home and prepare a full meal.
Your friend, the casserole, however, is waiting in the refrigerator because you took 30 minutes to prepare it the night before.
For this month’s Tossed & Found segment, I have chosen four casseroles I’ve never made. Two are rice-based, one is pasta-based and the fourth is just so darned simple I was curious.
Most of the recipes I collect are simple. They don’t require ginger root gently pulled from the ground in Southern India, Calibayarasta cheese found in the most exotic markets or leg of lamb that was tended to by Rastafarian shepherds.