We’re at Mama and Daddy’s house today for Father’s Day lunch, and Mama made a squash casserole that is SO STINKIN’ TASTY that I just had to share the recipe.
In addition to the delicious squash casserole, we had fried chicken, butterbeans, green beans, creamed potato casserole, congealed salad, green salad and rolls.
And then we exploded.
But it was totally worth it.
Squash Supreme
2 cups yellow squash, cooked in chicken broth, drained and mashed
2 beaten eggs
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
1 medium onion, chopped very fine
1/2 stick butter
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
3 tablespoons Worcestershire
2 teaspoons hot sauce
1/2 cup crushed Ritz cracker crumbs
Combine all ingredients except cracker crumbs. Put in a buttered dish and top with cracker crumbs. Bake 25-30 minutes at 400.
Then go slap your mama. Because it’s that good.
Happy Father’s Day!
Well, I just got home from church (on the West coast) and I’m getting ready to make the sauce for some ribs cuz my hubby’s mom and dad are coming over for lunch in, oh, about 35 minutes. So WHY, may I ask, am I NOT in my kitchen????? I guess I wanted to sit down for a few minutes. (Again.) Now I’m wishing I could make some squash supreme to go with the ribs. But I had to comment before I left cuz normally there are like 100 by the time I get here… : ) Happy Father’s Day!
And for dessert???
Okay B Mama– I’ll start by reminding you that I’m from Northeast Ohio. I’m sure that something called “Congealed Salad” could be tasty, but the name is kind of frightening. The name makes me think of that scary looking stuff in the deli case with the squares and gelatin– Souse, maybe?! Back up and for those of us completely unfamiliar, could you give a Congealed Salad 101? Thank you!
Ditto on Bailey Leaf’s comment. I also grew up in N.E. Ohio and am now a Hoosier. Congealed salad to me sound like something that happens when I don’t clean out my fridge drawer for two months and there is that icky brown goo below all the veggies we never ate. NASTY. So fill a girl in, would ya? Why would you eat congealed salad?
And it is yellow summer squash or a combination of summer squash and zucchini, right? Because I just can’t imagine winter squash cooked that way, and we don’t like winter squash in this house anyway. Summer squashes get rave reviews, though.
So, summer or winter? Inquiring minds what to know.
YUMMMMMY!!!! My FIL makes a squash casserole that is awesome, but your moms sounds even better. Glad y’all had a good dinner.
I gained 10 lbs just reading that. And congealed salads are YUM, despite the frightening visual they might provide for the un-initiated.
Boomama, thanks! I’ve been looking for a good squash casserole recipe. My aunt makes a wonderful one, too, but I keep forgetting to ask her for the recipe.
How was the cake? BooMama, I’m hope you are going to educate our friends nationwide that are unfamiliar with congealed salads. :-) I suppose that is a southern thang.
If eating like that is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
As we speak, my mom is fixing a supper of Swiss steak, mashed potatoes and collard greens for our Father’s Day bash.
The collard greens were Daughter’s request. That’s my girl.
Sounds like a good southern meal to me. Here on the east coast things weren’t nearly as exciting at the table. BLTs and Sunchips. It’s a shame, isn’t it?
I also want to know what kind of squash. I am foreign, remember! Can you please post a photo? I love butternut squash. Maybe it is that?
MMMM since we’re getting like 100 lbs of squash each week I need some new recipes to try! I make one similar to that, but with no mayo and bread crumbs instead of cracker crumbs. Will try it this week.
And I will slap myself when I’m done :)
I want to know what kind of squash too. Are you immediately able to identify me as a northerner because I do not intuitively know the answer to this question? This would not be a good thing seeing as I only live a few hours from you. Your blog is helping me to make sense of the south.
Kate
drooling. i’m imagining butternut squash. is congealed salad just a jello salad with a more ladylike name?
definitely drooling though.
Okay, I’m in. I hate squash, but it doesn’t seem like you really even taste it among all the other goodness, so I’ll try it. Thanks a lot for the weight-gain. :)
Oh my…I’m drooling over that recipe- Nothing betta than some bright yellow Missisippi squash fresh from the garden- I’m going to the farmers market ASAP to get some-
I have learned so much from you and Big Mama- Thanks for keeping it REAL!
Can you use Miracle Whip?
Thank you for posting this recipe!! I LOVE squash casserole, and that lunch menu is to die for! :-)
Your mama sure prepared a fine sounding meal. I can understand why you were all stuffed afterward.
The squash recipe sounds good.
The first time I ever heard “so good it’ll make you wanna slap your mama” was in college. My roommates’ mama was making potato soup for us and that’s what she said about it.
I guess those who read your blog are used to that phrase, as most people only worried over the congealed salad part. Which, by the way, every “special occasion” meal is incomplete without. At least in my family.
Oh come on. You can’t talk about a meal like that without warning. Darn you. Now my keyboard is wet from all the drooling. I’m soooooooooo jealous. That’s my kind of meal.
Green beans and butter beans? Y’all do it up right over there! I just slapped my mama reading about it…. she’s not so pleased. :)
So, when googled under google images, the first picture that popped up was the following:
http://blog.dhomeandgarden.com/archives/JelloSaladPlate1.JPG
It didn’t help much with the mystery, as I still can’t tell what in the world it is, even with a visual aide. After consulting “congealed salads” at cooks.com, it appears to be what we on the west coast call simply “Jello salad,” as I suspected. ;)
Oh.my.word. It sounds wonderful.
But slap my mama? Uh…that would get me in big, big trouble.
LOL, thank you for sharing this. And happy Father’s Day to your daddy and your hubby.
I’ve had this before and oh my, I’ll second BooMama, it is devine. The cheese, the squash and then the buttery crackers. Oh my. I’m salivating just thinking of it.
Glad to hear you had a good Daddy’s Day.
can we have the creamed potato casserole next please?
Oh yum… wonder what this would taste like with Zucchini — because I just can’t leave a recipe alone, gotta mess with it a little bit.
~TaunaLen
I can just taste the South–just by reading this. Heavenly!
Oh how I love congealed salad and you know here in the South it is a requirement at every family get together. Also, I love fried squash. I haven’t had that in a while.
I just had to make a couple of comments here. First, oh my goodness, is that casserole good or what? I made it last Sunday to take to our family reunion, and there was not a bite left. Not one bite!
Second, I think I know why we say congealed salad instead of jello salad. Jello salad, which would be, you know, made with Jello, would pretty much always be sweet. But some people make congealed salad with that Knox gelatin stuff that is like Jello in it effect, but doesn’t have any sugar in it. So congealed salad *could* at least theoretically be not sweet. But in that case, I wouldn’t eat it. I’m just saying.
I am about to go visit family in Kentucky. The menu there usually includes: pulled pork (BBQ), fried catfish, anything out of their garden and any other vegtable they found while out windshielding. Windshielding is what they call going out for a drive with no destination determined. Being able to stop at different farmers markets and find more fresh veggies.
Then you have to guard your car doors. Because, you might be at church and whenever you go to leave there might be a bag of fresh corn sitting in the backseat.
I just love going to the country.
LOL I never heared that expression before “slap your mama it’s that good” hehehe Recipe sounds great. Lady Rose