Things I need to do for tomorrow lunchtime.

When can I do them?

Bake gingerbread (the cake kind.) Can I bake it today? Gingerbread isn't served hot anyway, is it? And it won't get stale overnight.

Make a sweet potato casserole. (Don't ask me what recipe, I don't know. I'll probably peel and cube, splash with some fresh OJ and cinnamon, and bake. Very simple.) Can I do that today and re-heat tomorrow, or will the stuff turn to mush?

Make green bean casserole (the kind with cream of mushroom soup and fried onions.) Can I make that today if I don't do the baking part? (Like, just mix everything together and put it in the casserole dish, except for the crunchy-on-top onions?)

Ack.

So for some reason I got it into my head that I didn't have to cook the green beans before I put them in the casserole dish. I have no idea why I thought that. Last time I made this recipe I did it with fresh green beans, and I certainly cooked THEM before I mixed them with the soup mix etc. I know that frozen green beans are frozen before the beans are cooked. I guess I'm just dumb. :-P

Anyway, I'm baking the casserole now and hoping that eventually the beans will BAKE-cook, given enough time. I mean, when I cook potatoes, I often boil them before doing something else to them, but it's also possible to roast potatoes (without added water) and have them be cooked eventually. So far, 45 minutes and the beans are NOT cooked. They are no longer frozen, but it's hard to stick a fork through one and biting into it is a bit like biting into a briefly stir fried bean. *Puts casserole dish back into oven and crosses fingers*