I spent over 2 hours on this casserole and asked my husband to put it away while I put the kids to bed, this morning I found it still on the stove

[u/ShadowInTheSun_]

This is an old recipe passed down to me by my grandma and it is my favourite meal to make at the beginning of September. Prepping the veggies and meat takes a lot of time because they have to be layered and somewhat uniform.

Anyways, I finally finished it in the oven, right when I had to put the kids to bed so I asked my husband to put it away for me (I even had clean Tupperware left out right beside it) and he said he would.

I didn’t end up going back downstairs last night and after the kids were asleep just brushed my teeth and went to bed.

I woke up this morning and came downstairs to find it still sitting on the stovetop.

[u/Sufficient_Coat_222]

This just happened to me with a cheesecake and 2 days later pasta!!! STRAIGHT TO JAIL

[u/Bron-Y-Aur36 → u/Sufficient_Coat_222]

RIGHT TO JAIL! RIGHT AWAY

[u/MathematicianSlow967 → u/Bron-Y-Aur36]

[u/Valuable-Yard-4154 → u/Bron-Y-Aur36]

Wait we get pasta and cheesecake in jail ? HEY WAIT FOR ME !!

[u/Sproose_Moose → u/Valuable-Yard-4154]

Ok I hate hearing cheesecake because I want to get one and binge watch the golden girls

[u/Runaway_Angel → u/Valuable-Yard-4154]

Yes, but it's been sitting out for a couple if days

[u/CuteGirlFan → u/Runaway_Angel]

Aged pasta with some anti-bacterial properties. I’m in!

[u/Eastside143 → u/Runaway_Angel]

At least. And someone nearby is responsible for such atrocities

[u/LaundryMan2008 → u/Sufficient_Coat_222]

The pasta I wouldn’t be bothered about but the cheesecake is an automatic death sentence with no parole, especially if it’s a special treat as they are not cheap

[u/lathspellll → u/LaundryMan2008]

Public execution

[u/Informal-Being-3864 → u/lathspellll]

and private castration

[u/rotin75 → u/LaundryMan2008]

Actually, there is a really nasty bacteria that really likes to grow on cooked, room temperature pasta and rice. It's literally called "Fried Rice Syndrome". From the internet: "Fried rice syndrome is food poisoning caused by a bacterium known as Bacillus cereus (B. cereus). This microscopic germ likes to live on starchy foods like rice and pasta, but it can set up shop on nearly any food. All this bacterium needs is the right combination of time and improper temperature." So, no cheesecake or pasta 😕

[u/Background_Sail9797 → u/Sufficient_Coat_222]

i think it's called divorce - it;s what you do to men who don't respect you, your time or your gender

[u/Mapletables → u/Background_Sail9797]

or themselves, if they're out here wasting cheesecake

[u/JK_NC]

I’ve done that before.

“I’ll let it cool down for like 30 mins before putting it away”.

Gotta set a reminder on one of the dozen gadgets that can easily remember for me.

[u/SeaworthinessOk6789 → u/JK_NC]

I always leave the kitchen light on if I have food out to cool down. I've found it helps me a lot because I'm constantly turning lights off behind me, so I know there's something weird if I've left a light on. I don't know if that will help anybody else, but it's the only thing that stops me from leaving food to rot.

[u/PopEnvironmental1335 → u/SeaworthinessOk6789]

That’s what we do. It further helps that my stove light is aggressively bright and hard to ignore.

[u/lostinthecity2005 → u/PopEnvironmental1335]

Oh, so THATS what stove lights are for

[u/micapikachu83 → u/lostinthecity2005]

Nah it’s a night light

[u/i_was_a_person_once → u/micapikachu83]

False, it’s the kitchen closed sign.

[u/Dangerous_Moment5774 → u/micapikachu83]

Definitely a night light lol

[u/Veaeate → u/Dangerous_Moment5774]

Thank God, I really thought I was the only one.

[u/SparklyLeo_ → u/Veaeate]

My bf hates using it as a night light and I just can’t understand why lol without it the house is completely dark. What if one of us gets up to get water or something? He has no rationale for it either.

[u/ThugLifelol → u/SparklyLeo_]

It was drilled into me from a young age “DON’T USE THE STOVE LIGHT!!” And really any of the appliance lights. Cause family didn’t want to buy replacement bulbs I think. They used to be more expensive and harder to get. And probably a PIA to change the bulb in some appliances.

[u/madeleinetwocock → u/micapikachu83]

Midnight snack guide

[u/wise-bull → u/lostinthecity2005]

Turns out the oven light’s main function isn’t to make your turkey look dramatic

[u/DMvsPC → u/lostinthecity2005]

Also the 'don't you touch my fuckin kitchen I just cleaned it' lights

[u/saddoubloon → u/SeaworthinessOk6789]

I do the same thing. Once I made a huge pan of enchiladas and set them on the oven to cool and at some point the light burned out so i forgot about them and went to bed. Got up the next morning and there were my enchiladas all dry and judgmental

[u/pardonmyass → u/saddoubloon]

Judgmental Enchiladas needs to be a band name.

[u/Defiant-Youth-4193 → u/saddoubloon]

I love Enchiladas. I just got irrationally upset about you leaving them out all night.

[u/Jedi-Sector-915 → u/Defiant-Youth-4193]

I'm Mexican American. Just throw a can of tomato sauce all over the enchiladas and put them back in the oven to warm up. They'll be fine. The crackly tortillas will end up soaking up the tomato sauce. Or you can just tell everybody you made flautas! It's like Jim Gaffigan says: all Mexican food is the same. It's beans, meat, cheese, lettuce, in a tortilla.😂

[u/theoriginalmofocus → u/Jedi-Sector-915]

I mean im eating that shit still one way or another ha. I make a huge caldo all the time and you have to let that set out over night to cool down before putting the pot in the fridge.

[u/CoolWhipMonkey → u/Jedi-Sector-915]

I’ve had food poisoning a few times. I don’t eat anything that’s been left out for more than two hours. I’m super paranoid lol!

[u/liboteeme → u/saddoubloon]

I did that so many times as a broke youngster and still decided to eat it and risk the gut ache that I believe I'm immuned to salmonella 😂

We had a song called "Counter Cheese" we'd sing because someone was always leaving out the parmesan cheese overnight 😂

[u/AshtonCopernicus → u/SeaworthinessOk6789]

This is spot on and I do the same. I've grown out of the phase of, "oh, I'll remember", because so many times I didn't. Light on in the kitchen, putting something you need to bring in the morning on top of your wallet/keys, when I've used the last poo bag for the dog I grip the dispenser until I walk in the house to remember to refill it, even sometimes just leaving something you need to bring the next day right next to the front door... those small little reminders go a long way in making life easier.

[u/Coal_Morgan → u/SeaworthinessOk6789]

I do that for any room I need for any reason.

I'm going to clean the house. I go through the house and turn on all the lights and I will turn them off as a room gets clean.

Same with laundry, laundry room is off the kitchen which is the heart of the house, have to walk through the kitchen to get anywhere, I leave the door open and light on until the Laundry is upstairs.

I have a light that is automated to the garage door and garbage day. It turns on when the garage door is open or it's garbage day.

I need visual or timed reminders for bloody everything.

[u/f00l2020 → u/Coal_Morgan]

Would be a good tip if I didn't have kids. 9/10 they just leave the light on because they were in the room at some point maybe that day?

[u/Mr_Tiggywinkle → u/JK_NC]

That used to work for me.

Then I had kids and they somehow find the exact time you're about to enter the timer to do something crazy and you rush over and deal with it and you forget.

[u/Parzival091 → u/Mr_Tiggywinkle]

I always forget to set timers, so instead I just set like 18 alarms before I start a long cook/smoke lol

[u/Prize_Ostrich7605 → u/Parzival091]

I forget to cook. The alarm goes off though.

[u/Parzival091 → u/Prize_Ostrich7605]

That's my laundry alarm staring at me wondering wtf I'm doing lol

[u/4BDN → u/Mr_Tiggywinkle]

For me my son finds the exact time when it is about to go off. So I get distracted dealing with him, the timer goes off in the other room, I yell to have it shut off and then totally forget to do the thing the timer was there for. 

[u/SunkenSaltySiren → u/4BDN]

I've gotten to the point where I make them wait. They all know I have adhd. I bend all I can for everyone else, so they gotta wait for me to finish the thing I'm doing if I can finish it in 60 seconds or less. If it's an emergency, I don't make them wait of course, but just "needing" something, or they have a question, they know they must wait.

And I also saw someone mention a smartwatch. This 100000%. Alerts on my wrist are lifesaving.

In addition, I have it pulse on the hour, and I fully believe that's helped my inability to sense time. I can guess with much better accuracy if it's been closer to a half hour since something happened. Working on the quarters now. I play a game with myself, not looking at a clock until I "feel" that 15 minutes have passed.

[u/princesscupcake11 → u/4BDN]

I hit snooze over and over until I actually do the thing, that way I keep being reminded

[u/fucking_unicorn → u/Mr_Tiggywinkle]

Except he didnt have to deal with the kids…

[u/Fuzzy_Laugh_1117 → u/fucking_unicorn]

But now he can bring dinner home for a couple of nights.

[u/Whpsnapper → u/fucking_unicorn]

The husband secretly hates this 'casserole'.

[u/Fresh-Clothes8838 → u/Whpsnapper]

Yeah that could be it too 🤷‍♂️

[u/DervishSkater → u/Mr_Tiggywinkle]

That’s why a smart watch has been invaluable. Easy to speak a timer after you close an oven. It becomes habit and instinctual part of your process.

[u/Parzival091 → u/JK_NC]

Yep, prepping a soup/stew on a Sunday evening is sometimes a gamble that I won't be too tired to remember putting it in the fridge before bed.

I know that people say modern fridges can handle hot food being put directly into the fridge, but I've got plenty of prematurely mouldy cheese evidence that tells me otherwise.

[u/justin_the_viking → u/Parzival091]

Not to mention all the condensation that gets trapped in the sealed container and makes everything "mushy".

[u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Okay everyone, yes it looks NASTY but please remember this sat out overnight hahahah

It’s a “poverty” dish from Scotland, but it is so good

EDIT: I love my husband and it was an accident!! I forgive him, even if it’s mildly infuriating, he was very sad he forgot about it!

EDIT EDIT: for everyone asking I did post the “recipe” in a comment here

Added recipe here for easy access ——————————-

RECIPE

Teacher’s delight

Preheat oven to 375

Add a thin layer of tomato soup to the bottom of your casserole dish

Chop potatoes and carrots into thin slices (how many depends on how big your dish is! I also do a couple at a time and add as I go)

Layer your potatoes first, then carrots, then break apart ground beef (or lamb) and evenly distribute half the package (1 pound package typically) over the carrots. (Raw meat)

Season with your heart: salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder

Mix milk into your condensed tomato soup and pour half over the top.

Repeat steps so you have 2 layers.

Pour the rest of your soup over the second layer

Add water and a couple tablespoons of spoons of ketchup to the empty soup can and mix (stay w me) it adds some sweetness and acidity

Cover with tinfoil and put in oven for approximately 1 hour stirring halfway through

Take out, uncover, mix again and place back in oven for about 30 mins (or until potatoes are form tender) uncovered

It may look a bit watery, but the stretches from the potatoes will thicken it!

Take out of oven, add a few slabs of butter to the top and serve with bread/buns and butter

Edit: some clarifications

[u/Loud_Cellist_1520 → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Can I ask what’s in it? I’m from Scotland and it doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen, just curious. Is it a take on stovies?

[u/ShadowInTheSun_ → u/Loud_Cellist_1520]

Yes I think so!

It is literally passed down verbally through the women in my family! Stovies was the closest thing I could find online a few years ago when I looked it up

It has potatoes, carrots, ground beef (or lamb) with tomato soup as the liquid for cooking

Edit: spelling

[u/friskers_99 → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

My grandma also made a dish like this! She called it shipwrecker stew and it’s such a classic. Bonus points if you have a piece of bread and butter on the side ❤️ I hope it was delicious and felt like a warm generational hug. Your husband is lame af for letting that go to waste

[u/ShadowInTheSun_ → u/friskers_99]

We call it teacher’s delight and we ALSO have fresh baked bread w butter on the side

[u/lotsofcache → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

We call this seven layer casserole in my house! It’s a bit different though, we mix the tomatoes soup with rice. Everything else is very similar.

[u/hey-chickadee → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

I know you said it takes a long time to prep, maybe enlist your husband in chopping duties next time you make it? Or guilt him into getting some nice chef’s knives to save you time haha (if you don’t already have a set)

[u/Kimber85 → u/hey-chickadee]

I taught my husband how to cook by having him be my “assistant”. He would chop and measure things while I was cooking and it seriously cut my cooking time in half. Plus it was fun working together and we could do things that were way more complicated and labor intensive.

He enjoyed it so much that all he wanted for Christmas last year was nice knives!

[u/WaywardWes → u/Kimber85]

Dude, good knives are the BEST.

[u/really_tall_horses → u/WaywardWes]

But also for things like this a mandolin is a life saver. Provided you aren’t clumsy of course.

[u/s33n_ → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

I think a mandolin might make the veg prep for this waaaaay easier. This is assuming that the hard part is making a ton of thin uniform slices that you can layer along the dish ala ratatouille

[u/Helenarth → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

That sounds fucking delicious

[u/mosquitoselkie → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Would you be willing to share the recipe?

[u/ChiliCheeseNug → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Nasty? Noo, looks like it tastes BOMB. Man I'm hungry rn

[u/thissexypoptart → u/ChiliCheeseNug]

Yeah it’s carrots and potatoes and other good things. Cooked for a while.

I’m only seeing comments complaining about the comments calling this nasty at this point, so I hope those were just a small minority of morons who are overly used to their mommy’s tendies.

[u/Atrimon7 → u/thissexypoptart]

Even the people who are agreeing that it looks like a mess but probably tastes good I don't understand because to me this just looks like a big pot of comfort food.

[u/ObliviousTurtle97 → u/Atrimon7]

It makes me think they've never seen a casserole before

They are a comfort dish that smells and tastes amazing. It's not about the looks [because if it was, no one would eat one]

[u/koolmon10 → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

As someone who has left food out overnight before, I can tell this looked 10x better last night when it was fresh. Staying out overnight makes pretty much all food look terrible.

[u/muddhoney → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Oh man, I can just imagine the kick he internally gave himself when he saw it still sitting there. We did the same thing with stew (that was so good) in the instant pot after putting our little dude to bed. Even sat out the Tupperware and everything too.

[u/ShadowInTheSun_ → u/muddhoney]

It happens to the best of us!

[u/Budakhon → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

I was your husband in this scenario once. Since then, I leave the stove light on to remind me as I'm shutting down for the night.

[u/tchildthemajestic → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

I was about to say he was probably more upset than you missing out on casserole leftovers. Always better the 2nd day.

[u/NeutrinosFTW → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Ignore them, I would eat the FUCK out of that.

If it hadn't sat out overnight lol

[u/_Boom___Beard_ → u/NeutrinosFTW]

Idk I’d still eat it….still looks good! 😂

[u/NeutrinosFTW → u/_Boom___Beard_]

...I would too but I'd deny it if anyone asked.

[u/OddPoet336 → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

It looks delicious. I thought so before I even read the post. Just made almost the same dish, but with broccoli and we ate it for two days.

[u/ViceroyInhaler → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

What that casserole looks hearty and tasty. Plus I'd eat a casserole they was sitting out for 8 hours. Just refrigerate it and microwave it until nice and thoroughly hot before eating it.

[u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

I feel like a lot of people on this post have never had a casserole before? They always look bad and usually taste great.

Weird reason to make a pithy remark about your husband’s screwup being justified.

[u/Past_East_230 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

I was thinking this because I’ve never eaten a casserole that actually looked appetizing. They’re a menagerie of foods in the pan mixed together - of course it isn’t gonna look like a Michelin star meal 😭

[u/Lovethiskindathing → u/Past_East_230]

Sometimes the melted cheese and black pepper on top looks super good before it's cut into and reveals all the inner goo lol 🤣 delicious inner goo. The season is upon us!

[u/Past_East_230 → u/Lovethiskindathing]

Yesssss I love the goo!!!! My big brother has always called casseroles and pot pies “soup with a roof” because they have a crusted layer on the top 😂

[u/flobobunny → u/Past_East_230]

A soupee

[u/Holdmytesseract → u/flobobunny]

Perfection. This should have gotten more love. Maybe it needed the é

[u/thisisfutile1 → u/Holdmytesseract]

Indeed. I read it as SOO-pee...now I see the beauty of it as soo-PAY

[u/ManyGolf9581 → u/Past_East_230]

Haha “soup with a roof” is perfect 😂 That goo under the top crust is honestly the best part, like a little hidden treasure of cheesy, meaty goodness every time.

[u/Lovethiskindathing → u/Past_East_230]

That's essentially cobblers and crumbles too lol. Ahhhh the Midwest culture, love it.

[u/HeyFloptina → u/Past_East_230]

I am never calling a casserole a casserole again. Soup with a roof wins!

[u/sw1ssdot → u/Lovethiskindathing]

Mmmmm, inner goo... /homer

[u/Bunny-Ear → u/Lovethiskindathing]

One of my family casseroles has a later of crushed cheese chips which looks pretty good too, although maybe that is my brain associating it with the potatoey goodness below lol.

[u/Sweet-Competition-15 → u/Lovethiskindathing]

The goodness is in the goo!

[u/Esplodie → u/Past_East_230]

I mean the top looks dried out, almost like someone left it uncovered all night...

What a waste of tasty food.

[u/feralcatshit → u/Esplodie]

Yeah, they really should have covered it and put it in the fridge or something.

[u/wolfblitzen84 → u/Past_East_230]

I’ve been a fine dining chef in nyc (Michelin and James beard) for a huge part of my career before moving into restaurant operations and I can say that I would prefer this over most foods. Mix it all together and cook for a couple hours and bing bong you have some magic on a plate.

[u/soniamiralpeix → u/wolfblitzen84]

lol your whole comment is gold but the “bing bong” gave me the biggest grin — and before coffee, to boot!

[u/Fearless-Ship-5197 → u/soniamiralpeix]

[u/Past_East_230 → u/wolfblitzen84]

It’s been spoken by a professional!!! The truth is in - soup with a roof wins 🤌

[u/Morningstroll13 → u/Past_East_230]

So.... does this mean that French onion soup, when served with bread and melty cheese, counts as a casserole?

[u/Expert-Mental25 → u/wolfblitzen84]

That's kinda like how I feel. Although my go to example for that feeling is when I say even if I were to win the lottery and become obscenely wealthy, I'm still gonna prefer going to that little 24/7 Mexican food place where the staff barely speak English to get a 10 dollar giant foil-wrapped burrito over some fancy self-important "fine dining experience". I'd probably do some of those a handful of times and treating loved ones with them just for the experience. But mostly I wouldn't change my favorite joints. I'd actually be able to get all the sushi rolls I want instead of having to make a Sophie's Choice for example 😅😭

[u/Membership_Fine → u/Past_East_230]

Damn do they hit the comfort food mark though. My wife does one with shredded potatoes ham and cheese. I usually fry an egg and dump it right on top. It’s unreal good.

[u/AbeTheGreat412 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

My pap made a soup when I was growing up that I loved. It was basically a pot roast, carrots, potatoes, celery, and crushed tomatoes. The broth became orangish-red and the grease would settle on top when it was cold. My mom and uncle both said it looked like dirty dish water, but to me it was the greatest soup in the world.

[u/MyUsernameGoes_Here_ → u/AbeTheGreat412]

My grandma made a pot roast soup like that, and OMG it was my FAVORITE thing! She can't do much of anything except sit there now, so I don't get it anymore and I can't make it like she did, but holy crap it was sooooo good!

[u/art3mis_nine → u/MyUsernameGoes_Here_]

We make a similar soup/ stew, it's just basic southern prairie cookin but it's just the ingredients above with onions, salt & pepper, and a bay leaf. It's the best!

[u/AbeTheGreat412 → u/art3mis_nine]

Yeah there is onion too, i forgot that, then we add salt, pepper, oregano and basil. The green spices add to the "ugly" coloring of the soup.

[u/Mammoth-Neat-9836 → u/AbeTheGreat412]

Had a coworker that would bring in a Tupperware of all the leftovers in the fridge, tossed in a pot with water and simmered. He called it Sunday soup.

[u/JustCosmo → u/Mammoth-Neat-9836]

Nope. Not the same haha

[u/Dividedthought → u/AbeTheGreat412]

If you want to remkve the grease from this, freeze a bowl of water. Then, when the grease floats up, dip the ice block in it quickly and remove it. The grease should stick tl the ice.

Alteenarively, if yiu don't mind losing some broth, skim it.

[u/AbeTheGreat412 → u/Dividedthought]

Personally I don't mind the grease. That's how pap made it, that's how I enjoy it. But it gets so thick, when the soup cools, I can just peel the grease layer right off the top.

[u/ThatAmnesiaHaze → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

Not to mention it probably looked a lot more appetizing before it dried out from sitting uncovered all night

[u/conspiracydaddy → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

People on Reddit are just like that. I once posted that my blender exploded while I was making split pea soup and a majority of the comments were like, “thank god nobody has to eat your split pea soup anymore.”

[u/Soord → u/conspiracydaddy]

Split pea soup is great? What do these ghouls eat?

[u/GodofIrony → u/Soord]

Chicken Tenders and Chocolate Milk mostly. There's a good chance anyone you're talking to on the internet is a child or has the mind of one.

[u/xXElectroCuteXx → u/GodofIrony]

... actually, that explains a shitton of the disrespectful partially sexist and homophobic rudeness if the shitheads are all actual middle schoolers.

[u/novaMyst → u/xXElectroCuteXx]

There is even a know phenominom where during summer months reddit gets worse because we know kids are out of school. I imagine most people on the inernet as 14 and it makes it so much easier to ignore the hate.

[u/Normal-Height-8577 → u/conspiracydaddy]

I think sometimes people remember bad supermarket food from their childhoods, and think that's the way the original recipe is supposed to be.

And of course that's not true. Split pea soup wouldn't have stayed such a popular staple if it was bad food. Historical poor people might have been restricted in what they could afford to eat, but they were very good at finding ways to make those staples tasty. And the result is a warming, filling, healthy, protein-filled and tasty winter soup.

[u/AlarmedOrdinary3331 → u/conspiracydaddy]

It really is the ugliest soup. I love it, and I’m always happy to eat it, but maaaaaaaan, it’s fugly.

[u/Intelligent_Mess_967 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

Right? People acting like the husband was doing her a favor by not putting away something that looked "gross" - dude literally had one job and the tupperware was sitting right there

[u/13stgmngr210 → u/Intelligent_Mess_967]

More like people got money to burn and don't mind throwing away all that food. It has meat in it it has to be tossed.

[u/xXElectroCuteXx → u/13stgmngr210]

That, and disrespecting their partner. And their partner's efforts. Like, extremely badly. Also I reckon you're American, but unless it's 30+°C inside or you have mad flies at least a European like me wouldn't toss it. However it's to be eaten today now, and refrigerated until.

Edit and ps: I'm saying the commenters claiming the casserole deserves the trash probably a) don't cook and b) disrespect their partners the same if they cook something that doesn't look snatched right from food porn insta - not OP.

[u/themightypirate_ → u/Intelligent_Mess_967]

These people are probably picky eaters that will only eat chicken nuggets lmao

[u/SteelMagnolia412 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

Casseroles are like soup. The uglier it looks the better it probably tastes.

[u/No-Supermarket4670 → u/SteelMagnolia412]

Also cake 

[u/SteelMagnolia412 → u/No-Supermarket4670]

FACTS! When I was like 8 my dad graduated law school and passed the bar exam. My mom, sisters, and I were all very proud of him. Naturally we wanted to bake him a cake to celebrate with him when he got home from work (sidebar: this lunatic of a man went to law school and passed the bar exam while working full time as a CPA and having 3 kids at home. One was a toddler at the time). It was also the hottest day of the year.

This red velvet/ cream cheese frosting monstrosity was the ugliest cake to ever be made. It looked like it was full of literal bullet holes. The icing was sliding everywhere because it was so hot outside. Sprinkles everywhere. Pink gel with just “happy” written out because we couldn’t get the tube to work. And my then 3 year old sister jammed a Barbie in it.

Still a very good cake and we make him a better version every year to commemorate his achievements and our accomplishments at baking.

[u/Suspicious_Pause5859 → u/SteelMagnolia412]

I was laughing already and then the Barbie got jammed into it. Now I’m really laughing. What a great memory.

[u/SteelMagnolia412 → u/Suspicious_Pause5859]

I mean we tried. It was important we do it “by ourselves” and we largely did minus the oven bit. I do remember hitting my older sister’s hand out of the way because she couldn’t get the gel tube open and kept telling me how to do it. She was wrong and I was over her. 😅 it was a very stressful day.

[u/Ok-Main-379 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

It's Reddit; the men here are living on pizza rolls and monster.

[u/Every-Draft-2789 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

Married someone southern and had my first casserole late in life. I can confirm that lol 😜😜😂

[u/AvestruzAlley → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

Also this had been sitting out for 12 hours and dried out!

[u/Zech08 → u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

I think the problem might be it sitting out forever.

[u/randomname77777787]

People in the comments are weird. ‘I wouldn’t eat it either’ when she put hours into it. It’s a casserole. You toss stuff in then eat it. Not to mention, it probably looked better before her husband left it out to congeal all night.

Also, multiple people jumping over themselves to make the same lame ass joke as quickly as possible is weirdo behavior

Edit: someone just dmed me ‘we all hate you’ from this thread. Weirdo behavior, guys

Edit 2: someone reported me to RedditCares. Weirdo behavior, guys

[u/OliverLuckyCharms → u/randomname77777787]

"Also, multiple people jumping over themselves to make the same lame ass joke as quickly as possible is weirdo behavior"

Can we make this a PSA to all of Reddit, or the internet for that matter.

[u/weirdhoney216 → u/OliverLuckyCharms]

One thing I endlessly hate is the first 50 comments on any Reddit thread are always people trying to be funny and you can never find a serious or semi serious reply

Also this casserole looks great

*edit- a word

[u/Daft00 → u/weirdhoney216]

You also can't get an original joke among those first 50 people.

[u/StepComplete1 → u/OliverLuckyCharms]

You might as well just shut reddit down at that point

[u/BigBoyYuyuh → u/randomname77777787]

Messy food is typically the best tasting food.

[u/hillbot27 → u/BigBoyYuyuh]

My mom makes lasagna with ravioli instead of lasagna noodles, and it's ridiculously messy and delicious. I ask for it every year on my birthday.

[u/BurgersForShoes → u/hillbot27]

Oh fuck now that's what I call a "go to the hospital after" meal. This is a high compliment.

[u/hillbot27 → u/BurgersForShoes]

There's a reason why I only ask for it once a year. Though a "messy lasagna" related death could be a good way to go.

[u/Sweet-Competition-15 → u/hillbot27]

Ohhh, I like that idea...ravioli filled with provolone would add such an unexpectedly tasty surprise!

[u/randomname77777787 → u/BigBoyYuyuh]

Hard agree

[u/Styggvard → u/randomname77777787]

Yeah I've eaten a lot of brown mush that was absolutely delicious!

[u/GreasyRim → u/Styggvard]

my chicken/brocolli/rice casserole seriously looks like something a dog coughed up on a plate but its a crowd pleaser for sure.

[u/FlavorBlaster42 → u/Styggvard]

Try the grey stuff; it's delicious!

[u/Acceptable-Topic-183 → u/FlavorBlaster42]

Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes!

[u/FereaMesmer → u/Acceptable-Topic-183]

I can confirm, I'm the dish

[u/suhhhrena → u/BigBoyYuyuh]

Exactly lmao the people leaving negative comments clearly aren’t eatin good 😭

[u/livluvschocolate → u/suhhhrena]

This picture genuinely made me sad because it looks so good and I’ve done the same thing so many times 😭They definitely just don’t have anyone at home to cook for them or know how to cook so Arby’s or Burger King is the only thing that looks appealing to the hogs anymore

[u/AlternativeResult612 → u/BigBoyYuyuh]

"Wait 'til you try my gagh! " -Worf

[u/Ilovebeef13 → u/BigBoyYuyuh]

I have made some plate and bowls of ugly ass food, that tasted phenomenal. Hahahaha. A friend of ours is a fucking chef that makes absolutely incredible plates, I mean just fucking stunners. No formal training on his behalf either, just learning from head chefs at restaurants over time. It is impressive. But he said, he has made some bowls and plates of "slop" that are the tastiest. The plating is just straight ugly, but the food is delicious. Hahahaha.

So it makes me feel better about my ugly food.

[u/BigBoyYuyuh → u/Ilovebeef13]

Nice plating is good in restaurants to make it look appealing. At home you know what you’re making so…

[u/Cow_Launcher → u/BigBoyYuyuh]

Nice plating is good in restaurants to make it look appealing.

"The first bite is with the eye."

Important in a restaurant, less so when you're making yourself a bowl of stew.

[u/TannedCroissant → u/randomname77777787]

People are lame, always just looking for opportunities to make crappy jokes that often don’t even have anything to do with the post, that’s just the way Kassa rolls unfortunately

[u/No_Independent8195 → u/randomname77777787]

I kinda wonder if people commenting like that are single guys who don't cook for themselves. When you spend that amount of time and effort making, not only your own dinner but everyone's dinner then that would be straight up infuriating.

[u/zipperfire → u/No_Independent8195]

And if your problem was, you didn't want to eat it because it was sub-standard, you should tell the person "I would prefer something different, this just didn't do it for me." Not leave it out for her to get angry about it. Or...say she found it later in the evening, un-done, instead of the next day, and could put it away safely. Then clean the baking dish and spoon. So after struggling to get all the kids to bed, she's still on KP duty and comes to bed even more tired. How's that going to work out for any fun snuggles when she's now irritated she couldn't even get a minimum of assistance?

[u/StupidFuckinLawyer → u/randomname77777787]

What kind of casserole are these critics cookin up? Lot of room to judge and joke when you ain’t doing anything.

Used to be if you had criticism of wife/mom/grandma’s cooking, she’d drag you in the kitchen by the ear and tell you to do it yourself then. Or whack you into the 24th century with a wooden spoon.

I’d happily eat OP’s casserole (giggity) and ask for seconds. And keep my complaints between me and baby black Jesus.

[u/Chomper_The_Badger → u/StupidFuckinLawyer]

The kind that get that, "Everybody's so creative!" TikTok soundbite, I'd imagine.

[u/Jackomo → u/randomname77777787]

It’s because it’s a woman on the internet. Any time you can’t reasonably explain the amount of hateful comments aimed at a Redditor, have a look and see if they have revealed their gender in their post.

[u/randomname77777787 → u/Jackomo]

Valid

[u/Ctrl_Alt- → u/randomname77777787]

Chronically online people who doordash every meal. And here is a woman who said they cook, it’s like garlic to a vampire. The average Redditor can’t comprehend how to be normal.

[u/Drwynyllo]

Could you post the recipe, please? :-)

[u/Takeabreath_andgo → u/Drwynyllo]

It looks like this

https://scottishscran.com/how-to-make-stovies-recipe/

But baked

[u/potatodioxide → u/Takeabreath_andgo]

hmm but that recipe is missing a neglectful husband

[u/CrimsonCartographer → u/potatodioxide]

I volunteer if I get to eat delicious food… and I’ll even turn down the neglectfulness to just to cute forgetting to water the plants for a single day kind !

[u/Greedy-Lie-8346 → u/potatodioxide]

This made me laugh so much 😂

[u/ShadowInTheSun_]

To the people calling me a “fat cunt” in my dm’s, or that I’m a terrible person, and my husband should leave me: are you good?

Like relax, no one’s actually mad. My husbands a good dude, he just did a silly goose thing.

[u/faithlw25 → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

what the hell? INSANE reaction to your original post. who would read your post and think “i need to privately message her and insult her”??

[u/Cat-soul-human-body → u/faithlw25]

Incels, that's who.

[u/Meended → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

I wouldn't piss on those people if they were on fire.

[u/chemicalgeekery → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

You might also say that what happened was only *mildly* infuriating.

[u/ShadowInTheSun_]

RECIPE

Teacher’s delight

Preheat oven to 375

Add a thin layer of tomato soup to the bottom of your casserole dish

Chop potatoes and carrots into thin slices (how many depends on how big your dish is! I also do a couple at a time and add as I go)

Layer your potatoes first, then carrots, then break apart ground beef (or lamb) and evenly distribute half the package (1 pound package typically) over the carrots. (Raw meat)

Season with your heart: salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder

Mix milk into your condensed tomato soup and pour half over the top.

Repeat steps so you have 2 layers.

Pour the rest of your soup over the second layer

Add water and a couple tablespoons of spoons of ketchup to the empty soup can and mix (stay w me) it adds some sweetness and acidity

Cover with tinfoil and put in oven for approximately 1 hour stirring halfway through

Take out, uncover, mix again and place back in oven for about 30 mins (or until potatoes are form tender) uncovered

It may look a bit watery, but the stretches from the potatoes will thicken it!

Take out of oven, add a few slabs of butter to the top and serve with bread/buns and butter

Edit: some clarifications

[u/murrayhenson → u/ShadowInTheSun_]

Just to clarify: after about 30 minutes you take it out of the oven and stir/mix it? And the repeat this again at the 1hr mark?

Without any malice or ill intent… If I understand correctly, why bother layering if it’s going to be disturbed as part of the cooking process?

Honestly … I’m thinking that, after 90 minutes, all of the carrots and potatoes would likely be cooked through anyway without mixing as part of the cooking process.

[u/PupperoniPoodle → u/murrayhenson]

Re, the layering then mixing: ever hear the story about the person who cut the ends off their roast before putting it in the oven? They keep asking why then finally figure out that everyone in the family does it that way because great-great-grandma had one pan, and the usual roast didn't fit without cutting it.

Actually, I even think there was one about cookies on reddit not too long ago, the poster was on a mission to make them just like her family did. And it turned out the reason for whatever odd step/ingredient was the great-grandma's oven was broken in a specific way. Shoot, I wish I could find that.

So anyway, maybe this recipe started out layered and not-mixed, but one time way back someone mixed it for whatever odd reason, and now both steps have stuck as the recipe has been verbally handed down.

[u/mentally-clean → u/PupperoniPoodle]

Re, the layering then mixing: ever hear the story about the person who cut the ends off their roast before putting it in the oven? They keep asking why then finally figure out that everyone in the family does it that way because great-great-grandma had one pan, and the usual roast didn't fit without cutting it.

I love it! 🤪 I have to imagine there's a bunch of those... things done to deal with an inadequacy of cookware or absence of something (like a spice missing, so one is substituted) that ends up into the lore of the recipe.

[u/CharlieBravoSierra → u/mentally-clean]

The one that I heard about was always putting a baking pan upside down over a chicken thawing in the sink (one should of course ideally thaw meat in the fridge, but that's a different matter). The mother came for dinner, saw the chicken with a pan over it, and asked the daughter why. The daughter said, "That's how you always do it!" The mother said, "Yes, but you don't have a cat!"

[u/murrayhenson → u/PupperoniPoodle]

Hah! Yeah, you might very well be right about that… because it sure does seem odd to layer something then mess it up.

If you ever find that oddball cookie recipe, please feel free to link it here - I can always use a chuckle. :)

[u/ShadowInTheSun_ → u/murrayhenson]

I literally asked myself that question yesterday hahah!!

I think it’s to make sure you have even amounts of all the ingredients

Edit: this is also how I specifically make it just because I like my potatoes to be a bit more mushy, but you can cook to your level of preferred mushiness ☺️

[u/Proper_Bell_7325]

Casseroles are literally the best way to feed a big family. My tater tot casserole looks like dog food but it is freaking delicious and my kids hammer it. Ignore the haters. Your husband is cooking tonight.

[u/13hammie13 → u/Proper_Bell_7325]

For shits n giggles I tossed in a can of corn one time, been doing it since. I'd say it's worth a try.

[u/schuser → u/Proper_Bell_7325]

Same. My kids got super excited to see it on our menu for this week. They love tater tot casserole and we always have left overs for lunches.

[u/Massive_Roy]

That actually looks like a banging casserole.. I’m gutted for you. What a waste.

[u/the-will-of-deez → u/Massive_Roy]

Please don’t bang the casserole

[u/hockeyguy327]

Honestly I have done this same thing to my wife and it felt terrible.

[u/PSR-B1919-21]

too many people in these comments never had a struggle casserole for dinner as kids lmao

[u/SatansCyanide]

Aw crap. My wife made a burner account. It’s me, I am that husband. No but really, I’m horrible about this and I feel like absolute trash every time it happens

Edit this has been fun Reddit but I’m over the conversation. Some of you are absurd. My wife is perfectly happy and content as am I. We have 4 beautiful children and love our life.

[u/jamilz13 → u/SatansCyanide]

So you’ve done this more than once?

[u/Due_Pineapple_1409]

Its Casserold now

[u/Avedygoodgirl]

I forgot to put the chili I made on Monday away and I was pissed at myself.

[u/frakitwhynot]

Am I the only one that's like.. "only overnight? I'd still eat it."

[u/ParsleyPractical6579 → u/frakitwhynot]

Wouldn't even cross my mind not to eat it. Warm it back up and get stuck in.

[u/Ryuubu → u/ParsleyPractical6579]

Yeah get it nice and hot for a while

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/frakitwhynot]

I see posts like this and wonder if I’m the odd one out or what.

I’m glad we have a tribe of stovernighters.

Yes I just made that up.

[u/wolfinjer → u/frakitwhynot]

Heat that bad boy back up and we got a brand spankin’ new casserole!

I’d eat it.

[u/EyeOfCloud]

guess what your husband is having for dinner while you and your kids get takeout

edit: it’s sarcasm guys /s I don’t want anyone to eat it and get sick

[u/Ok-Satisfaction441 → u/EyeOfCloud]

I’d still eat it. I’m sure it’s still fine. People don’t give food enough credit.

[u/Voodoobones]

Guilty. I’ve accidental have done this before. I am truly sorry. I got side tracked. I have no excuse.

[u/6x0x3]

Been there too many times

[u/ElsaV1970]

I don’t think the OP meant anything besides being frustrated that she asked her husband to do 1 thing after making next days meal……to please put in the the Tupperware sitting right beside her specially made favourite Casserole family recipe……..I’d be a bit pissed off too if spent time making a delicious meal & only asked for an easy task to help me out. I doubt she’s planning on throwing it out or even mad about that because she’s not said anything about that……..I’d definitely eat still eat it. I’m sure she put it into the fridge after finding it in the same place. She’s just venting I believe and i get her frustration

[u/Good-Walrus-1183]

there was a post just like this a few weeks ago except it was a lasagna. Damn lazy husbands!

[u/ExpensivePangolin712]

I’d be furrrrrious

[u/Southern-Tourist599]

I set an alarm to put stuff in refrigerator. Plus, I do a final walk through the house before to go to bed to ensure doors and windows are locked, food is put away, small appliances unplugged, etc. Perhaps your husband thought it was too hot to refrigerate, sounds like it was. Or, just forgot. I get it though. A lot of work to be trashed!