I have a Broccoli Casserole that is made with Minute Rice and Cream of Mushroom Soup that I like. I like the result warm, but I also like the squares cold. The recipe is online at the Minute Rice web site. I am not sure how long ago I first came across this recipe, but maybe more than 20 years, and I went quite a few years between making it, but have started again. Just finished my last of this last week.

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I’m not sure why I came up with the idea to replace the broccoli with chopped spinach, but I did. I mentally went thorough the list of ingredients for the broccoli casserole and realized that chopped spinach should work just as well… spinach & rice, spinach and cheese, sauteed onion and spinach and rice, yeah, that all seemed plausible. *I just heard my Timer beeper going off saying that the Spinach Casserole has been in the oven 35 minutes.

I think the Broccoli is still going to be my “go to” favorite, but I just thought about using Asparagus also as an alternative. *I’m also thinking that I should either chop up some celery, or add a can of Cream of Celery Soup also. But, if I use canned soup, then I probably would have to get serious about adding the bread cubes to this, which I have only tried once recently.

Yes, this turned out well. I would still prefer broccoli to spinach, but there was nothing negative about the substitution. *This was almost as good cold as the broccoli casserole. The spinach takes on a more prominent flavor cold.

ADDENDUM [06/20/22]: I tried using asparagus today, instead of broccoli or spinach. I think I like asparagus least, and it wasn’t any better when the casserole was cold. It was still a good casserole, but the broccoli casserole is the best. *I did add chopped celery with Cream of Mushroom soup for the asparagus version. I used Cream of Chicken with the spinach.