A few hints make cooking with Wisconsin cheese an easy and tasty success: Use low heat, just enough to melt the cheese and blend it with other ingredients. High heat makes natural cheese tough and stringy. Avoid long cooking, which also makes cheese tough and stringy; cook just enough to melt. To promote even melting, slice, shred, grate, cube or dice cheese before adding as an ingredient.
SCALLOPED POTATO AND CHICKEN CASSEROLE
3-1/2 cups milk 2 tablespoons butter 1 package (5 to 5-l/2 ounces) scalloped potato mix 1-1/2 cups frozen cut green beans, thawed, well drained 1-1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken 1/4 cup green onion slices 2 tablespoons stone ground mustard 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Wisconsin Brick cheese
Microwave milk and butter in 2 quart round casserole 4 minutes on high or until steamy. Stir in potatoes and sauce mix; cover with waxed paper. Microwave 15 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Stir in beans, chicken, onion and mustard; microwave 5 to 6 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Stir in cheese; let stand 5 minutes.
Makes 4 servings.
NOTE: Substitute cooked fresh green beans for frozen green beans.
Cheese is a nutritious milk product that has been one of man's most important foods for thousands of years. The United States and France rank as the leading cheese-producing countries. Wisconsin is the leading cheese making state. Wisconsin Cheese comes in about 350 varieties and in many different sizes and shapes. There are literally several thousands of varieties world wide.
History of Cheese Making
Widmer's Wisconsin Cheese Legacy...
In Wisconsin, the cheese making
legacy runs deep and examples of
third-and fourth generation
Wisconsin cheese makers carrying
on the family tradition are common.
Joe Widmer, is one such third-generation example. Widmer's Cheese Legacy
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