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2 cans French style green beans, drained and patted dry
1 can cream of mushroom soup
8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, grated
1 large sweet onion, diced
1 whole stick unsalted butter (not margarine)
1 pack Ritz crackers, crushed

Preheat oven to 350.

Melt butter in large skillet. Saute onion until translucent. Transfer onion from skillet into strainer, collecting butter drippings in a bowl.

In casserole dish, layer as follows:

  1. One can green beans
  2. 4 ounces shredded cheddar
  3. 1/2 sauteed onions
  4. 1/2 can mushroom soup
  5. One can green beans
  6. 4 ounces shredded cheddar
  7. 1/2 sauteed onion
  8. 1/2 can mushroom soup
  9. Crushed Ritz crackers

Drizzled melted butter drippings over top of crushed Ritz crackers. Bake uncovered for 45-55 minutes, until bubbling along edges. Turn on broiler and broil on high for 3-4 minutes to brown cracker topping.

Serves 4-6.

Isn't gravy really more of a condiment? You add it to everything on your plate, but unless you're Chris Farley, you aren't going to drink gravy straight.

  1. Cornbread dressing
  2. Green bean casserole (my recipe, not that garbage with the french fried onions)
  3. Sweet potato casserole
  4. Yeast rolls
  5. Deviled eggs

Bristol, BC and ECU. In one of our three fast starts, the bottom fell out. The other two, we managed to maintain the pace.

It has to be somewhat shocking for opposing fanbases to experience Hokie Nation taking over their stadium. Especially storied programs like Notre Dame. Some people chalk Fuente's talk of how special Virginia Tech is as coachspeak, but there's some truth to how well we travel.

Really? I thought the announcers said this was the first senior day in quite a while they had dropped.

Pitt was not a fast start on offense. We managed 9 points after having the ball inside the Pitt 25 on our first 3 drives. Good field position =/= a fast start.

IMO, no. Fuente was screaming. And that's about it. No jumping, no throwing things. And the crazy thing is, best as I could tell, he wasn't even in a ref's face when the flag was thrown.

Yeah, I have never gotten a sense of quit from this team. All our struggles - and all three of our losses - have been issues with fundamentals or execution.

Bit of a forced narrative. The team showed heart against adversity against Pitt and Duke, and really hasn't folded on an opponent since Bristol. We were trying to claw back against both GT and Syracuse, we just couldn't.

The team's had heart all season.

Ribeye sandwiches are a Midwest staple that I'm surprised hasn't spread to pretty much everywhere. When we were in Gatlinburg over the summer, I asked the guy at the meat counter in Food City if they had any "sandwich ribeyes" and he had no idea what I was talking about. I guess I'd forgotten I'd never really had one before I moved here. It doesn't seem like it should be a regional thing.

Re: the "late flag," replay showed the ref threw the flag immediately, and it got lost underneath the players. The ref basically laid the flag on the ground rather than sending it high. It was not late at all, you just couldn't see it fly. And of course, ND being "purists," they don't have a video board so people could see that after the fact.

WE HAVE A PIECE OF NOTRE DAME'S FIELD IN THE FUCKING LUNCH PAIL, FAM!!!

Cheese curds >>> mozz sticks.

With cheese curds, you can make poutine, which is tied with hockey as Canada's greatest gift to the world.

How much, if at all, do you think our OL struggles are due to recovering from Searles' beefing up of the linemen? It seems like we aren't going to be doing a lot of power running, and that's what Searles was conditioning for. This line from your review struck me:

Conte misses Davis because his path is too shallow to intercept Davis' pursuit angle. Gallo isn't athletic enough to bend back to the inside and pick him off.

There's basically two options to fix OL play: either play perfect technique, or be athletic enough to recover from mistakes and misreads. I don't think the former is possible. But what would have happened if Gallo was athletic enough to bend back inside?

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