Exactly four years prior to Sunday night's dinner of pipetizer casserole was published the blog post of the last time I'd made this dish. That's how long it has been, not because it's not good (it's kind of amazing) but because it's so not good for me (it's quite the load of goop). But what a mix of flavors and ingredients, giving us this monstrous realm of possibility and promise precariously perched upon each forkful. It makes a-plenty, which is what dinner for six at 6 certainly required.
Some homemade rosemary garlic focaccia was a smart ridealong for a meal like this. And salad just seemed to make sense, as well, with either homemade Thousand Island or short-cut ranch available according to tastes.
It was an early rising for me that Sunday, in the brisk 32°F dark before daybreak, and hanging over the house in the western sky was the departing full-ish moon of February. It marked the beginning of yet another fine day of Roediger House living, culminating in that fantastic gathering of awesome friends that night.
The other bright spot of the morning: first sighting of a bluebird couple checking out the house on the south property line fence!
"Pipetizer Casserole" is an adaptation of "Tailgate Casserole," from The Big Book of Casseroles, by Maryana Vollstedt. San Francisco: Chronicle Books (2000), p. 120.
"Easy Rosemary Garlic Focaccia," from Adam and Joanne Gallagher of InspiredTaste.net.
"Thousand Island Dressing," which was based on a version from Graybert on GeniusKitchen.com.
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