casserole

Etymology

Borrowed from French casserole.

noun

1. (countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
2. Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.
   a chicken casserole
3. (by extension) Food that fills the high-walled dish or pan that it was cooked in.

verb

1. (transitive) To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.
   Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […] 1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., page 16