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casserole

[kas-uh-rohl] / ˈkæs əˌroʊl /
NOUN
dish consisting of a combination of cooked food
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Parmesan or Pecorino keeps things more Italian, while cheddar nudges the dish toward American corn casserole.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

It worked to pare down menus and offer dinner deals, and rolled out items like slow-braised pot roast and hash-brown casserole shepherd’s pie.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

At a potluck, the assorted offerings—the masala potatoes, a church-basement casserole, a barbecue sauce perfected over decades—represent the best of individual traditions and stories of identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Instead of dropping off a casserole, you might offer to handle grocery pickup or coordinate a week of delivery.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

Mum served out chicken casserole, one of my favourite things to eat, from a big orange pot.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Pastas, casseroles, soups—they all live quite happily in that soft, velvety register.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

She said for some its about "relaxing" and prepping things such as casseroles, taking the pressure off cooking a big roast on the day.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

Like tuna casseroles and they’re very into hearty, grandma type food.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

Part of the appeal of casseroles in the first place was how they collapsed dinner into a symphony of shortcuts: canned soup, canned vegetables, canned meat, instant rice.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

She thought it was from eating too much food; it was the season of golden peaches, apricots, and young com cooked with basil in clay casseroles.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Blancmange — which means ‘‘white food’’ — referred to a family of recipes in which pale mixtures were casseroled together into a pap, often with rice and almond milk.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2015




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