"Bryan-TGWWW" > wrote in message
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> On Monday, February 3, 2014 9:56:22 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
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>> >> Alas, the Internet is stuffed full of crap like that. I had to hunt
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>> >> high and low to find a Crock-pot cookbook that didn't call for the
>> >> stuff.
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>> > Just WTF is wrong with a can of soup in a recipe? How do you all make
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>> > tuna casserole, or DO you?
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>> Is there a need for all the swearing? I no longer make it as I can't eat
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>> tuna and neither will Angela. Husband shouldn't have fish either and he
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>> never liked the thing. Tuna casserole was one exception when we could
>> eat
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>> fish and dairy. Then I would use cream of mushroom soup. But I also
>> made
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>> it with white sauce. Even as a kid I used the white sauce just to be
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>> different and my bro liked it as he hates mushrooms. Sometimes added
>> cheese
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>> to the white sauce.
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>> One other exception, again, when I could do dairy was Tater Tot
>> casserole.
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>> Then I would use cream of celery soup.
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>> I did learn to perfect making a mushroom sauce with no dairy. Dairy free
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>> margarine or olive oil, rice milk, some fresh chopped mushrooms and for
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>> thickener, dried mushrooms that had been whizzed up in the Magic Bullet.
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>> Once in a while back in the 80's I would use cream soup with chicken
>> breasts
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>> or husband. He ate them but didn't rave about them.
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>> But bottom line, when you can't have dairy, you can have cream soups.
>> And
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>> if I'm going to make something in the Crock-Pot, I sure as heck don't
>> want
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>> cream soup in it.
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>> Aside from the tuna casserole and possibly Chicken Amandine (not sure as
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>> can't remember the ingredients) I didn't grow up eating stuff with cream
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>> soup in it. Seems it is more common in other parts of the country than
>> it
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>> is here.
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>> I never even used cream soup for chicken casserole. I used chicken gravy
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>> for that.
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>> > Not every prepared meal has to be totally from scratch, does it? Does
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>> > it???
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>> No and I never said that it did. Made Campbell's tomato soup for
>> Angela's
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>> dinner and also a grilled cheese which I did do the proper way in a pan.
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>> No, I didn't make the bread from scratch or the cheese. She has the flu
>> and
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>> I figured I'd take advantage of her wanting soup and she hasn't willingly
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>> eaten any soup since I don't know when. Whenever that year was that I
>> made
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>> soup or stew for us almost every night during the winter. I was forced
>> to
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>> use the Crock-Pot then because dinner fell right at dance time. That way
>> we
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>> had something ready when we got home and so did husband who then got home
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>> before us. She finally snapped and announced, "I don't want anything
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>> soupy!" And she never ate it again. Until today. I think it may well
>> have
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>> been a super cold winter too. Me? I love soup. The others here? Not
>> so
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>> much.
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> I have an idea. Why don't you list all of the foods you cannot eat, and
> all
> those that your daughter and husband either cannot or will not eat? Post
> the list here, then blow your brains out with a pistol.
>

I'll pass. And I made a typo. Should have read that you "can't" have cream
soups with a dairy issue. Husband's only problem is gout. Well the only
food related one.