Daisy'S Seafood Casserole - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    4 cups mashed potatoes, mashed with
    butter, and
    milk, and
    1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
    2 -3 cups mixed seafood, cut into like sized pieces (i.e. shrimp, scallops, clams, crab meat, a haddock or cod fillet, use what you have on hand)
    1 cup diced green onion
    1 cup sliced mushrooms
    1 teaspoon minced garlic
    2 tablespoons flour
    4 tablespoons butter
    1 cup milk
    1/2 cup white wine
    1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
    1/2 lemon, juice of
    1/3 cup finely chopped fresh parsley or 2 teaspoons dried parsley
    salt and pepper
    paprika (to garnish)
Preparation
    Cook and mash enough potatoes to make about 4 cups. Add about 2 tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup milk and 1 cup cheddar cheese while potatoes are hot. Set aside.
    Heat oven to 350\u00b0F.
    Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large frying pan.
    Add diced green onions, garlic and mushrooms and saute on med./low heat until onions and mushrooms are cooked through.
    Add the other 2 tablespoons butter to pan and melt.
    When it has melted add the 2 tablespoons flour and stir the flour into the mushrooms and green onions.
    Add the cup of milk and stir until the milk starts to thicken.
    Add the 1/2 cup of wine and keep stirring.
    Add the worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and salt and pepper.
    Add the parsely and stir.
    Pour seafood mix into a deep casserole dish and top with the mashed potatoes around the edges of the dish leaving a space in the centre uncovered.
    Sprinkle potatoes with paprika.
    Bake for 45 minute to a hour until centre is bubbling.
    Remove from oven and serve.
    A nice garden salad with a raspberry vinigrette dressing goes well with this dish.

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