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AlaMoi

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ran across a recipe for a "Denver Casserole"

potatoes layered with onion, green pepper, diced ham, cheese.

tasty item - whole meal in one dish....

 

sounds like a "Denver Omelet" without the eggs....

 

anyone know how dishes involving diced ham&(stuff) got the meta-label of "Denver"

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http://www.coloradolifemagazine.com/May-2016/Denver-Omelet/

 

https://gunthertoodys.com/scrambled-history-denver-omelette/

 

couple different explanations … I don't care.   I love the combination and remember sharing a western(Denver) sandwich with my grandfather, Pop, many Saturdays as a kiddle at a luncheonette in Riverhead, NY near the train station.  

WOW... hadn't thought about that for years....thanks for bringing it back.

To this day if I go out for breakfast I order either a Western( and still can only eat half) or corned beef hash with hash browns and hard scrambled eggs ….. and take 2/3 of that home.

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37 minutes ago, AlaMoi said:

I just got curious if there was, for example, a chef named Denver who became world famous by dicing up ham or something....

sounds like the origins are a bit murky.

For a long time you could find a Denver omelette or a Denver sandwich on diner menus even up here in Canada. Mostly they are now called Western. 

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59 minutes ago, Anna N said:

For a long time you could find a Denver omelette or a Denver sandwich on diner menus even up here in Canada. Mostly they are now called Western. 

 

Makes me cringe - bell peppers, ham - running now

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