broccoli-potato hot dish with onion crispies:)

Hmmm.
This was almost like a less-healthy twist on the broccoli-potato curry.
Crazy. And this is a little less-easy, depending on if you use canned mushroom soup or make it from scratch like I did today. No pressure. ;)

Broccoli-potato hot dish with french fried onions
Cover a 9x13 pan with chopped broccoli
Top with bar-boiled potatoes, chopped
Chicken optional

3 cups of cream of mushroom soup
1/2 tsp curry (optional, you decide:)
1 cup mayo
...Mix and pour over broccoli and potatoes
Top with french fried onions
Bake @ 350 1 hr 15 minutes
Top with cheese for last 10 minutes of baking

Cream of mushroom soup:
1-2 lbs mushrooms sliced and sauteed
2 large onions add to mushrooms --saute together.
Add 1/2 cup flour, stirring till mixed
Add 4-8 cups broth, depending on how thick you want it.
Let cool slightly --blend half of it and pour back together.
Optional: tbsp fresh basil before blending. Oh well. It's past the time of fresh basil for us right now. :(

Just a note: I kinda rocked the lunch-making today.
Dad came home from the farm around 10, wanted to eat early and I had this on the table by 11:20.
Heck. Yes. Everything from scratch, too. I just had to shove everyone out of the kitchen.
:D
Needless to say, it was prettymuch wonderful.
Just don't stuff yourself like I did. It was like Thanksgiving before Thanksgiving. And not mixing so many foods.
I had some lukewarm coffee and then napped from 12:20-12:40. Did my laundry, then ironed for a while.
And now I'm starving again.

I'm really settled on the idea of the Nikon D40. It's so pretty.
I can't wait to have a camera of my own, once again. I would've had more pictures of this recipe in the making if I did....Mom's camera only had enough room for me to take 3 pictures, darnit, and no one has permission to delete pics off her camera. No-no.
:)
So, I was going through the "Links" posted on fb, and came across this pumpkin gooey butter recipe. Are you kidding me. I was starving the second I saw the pictures. Go look at it.
Seriously.
Ah!!! Just remembered.
This is another thing that totally rocks my socks off. . . .
(those socks, of course, are all imagination right now.)
We're going out to eat tonight:) Egg drop soup, orange chicken, etcetera, etcetera. Saturday was Lyd's 10th birthday, and tonight we're finally getting around to doing the birthday-dinner-eating-out tradition we do. So...no dinner to make, or dishes to do tonight. :)