Heavenly Recipes
Story and Photos by Lawrence Chatagnier
Tyler’s Squash Casserole
Tyler Reynolds 22 • Bayou Catholic • Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux • July 2022
Tyler Reynolds, employee benefits coordinator in the Office of Human Resources for the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, shares his recipe for squash casserole in this month’s Heavenly Recipes. Tyler is from Monroe, LA, and lived in Shreveport until 1988 when he was six years old. “My father was the assistant manager of Piccadilly Cafeteria in Shreveport and took the manger job in Houma when it was offered to him. So I grew up around food and was around the kitchen a lot in Piccadilly. I worked there in high school and have deep roots in my childhood at that cafeteria.” Tyler’s wife Lisa is from Cut Off. The couple have three children.:Allie Grace, 11; and boys Liam Tyler, 6; and Owen Ellis, 5. The Reynolds family live in Summerfield in Houma. Tyler recalls meeting Lisa in 2005. “My mom and her sister were working for the same business company and they set us up on a blind date. It was funny because I remembered her face from school. She was in one of my classes at Nicholls.” Tyler says his mom did most of the cooking while he was growing up. He says they definitely ate a lot of “North Louisiana food.” “This recipe is from my stepmom Bessie. My wife is a picky eater. Bessie made it for us and we fell in love with it. My wife cooks it all the time now.” The Reynolds family are parishioners of St. Bernadette, where their children attend school. Tyler became interested in the insurance industry through his father. “My father was in the insurance industry. I was licensed in 2007. I worked for State Farm for a few years. In 2016, I made the decision to go into the insurance industry full time. I also converted to Catholicism in 2016, when my mom passed away suddenly. That made me discover my faith.”
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