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Baked Chicken Casserole

Keeping in the theme of easy, simple recipes, I want to share this family favorite!

This recipe was given to me by a special family friend. In fact, some of my best recipes I got from her. MaryAnn passed several years ago, which make the recipes I have of hers even more treasured.

You know a recipe is good when the recipe card looks like this!

Baked Chicken Casserole from Mary Ann Harris

I don’t use recipe cards anymore. I have my large collection all at my finger tips on my Cook’n program on my computer. There is something quite sentimental about recipe cards like this one and ones that are in my mother and grandmothers own handwriting though. I will always treasure those.

I have changed this recipe slightly over the years. Mostly just making it bigger for my large family.

If you love Thanksgiving, and especially the turkey stuffing, you will love this casserole! It is simple and has few ingredients. It is easy to put together. It is a true comfort food! Watch out though… it may leave you wanting pumpkin pie!

Baked Chicken Casserole

Servings 8

1 1/2-2 pounds cooked diced chicken Or turkey. Rotisserie Chicken is great for this
7 cups soft bread cubes
1 cup chopped celery
1 chopped onion
1/2 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs beaten
1 cup milk
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup undiluted

Preheat oven to 350F. Sauté onion and celery in butter. Add seasonings and baking powder. Turn off heat. Stir in bread cubes.
Beat egg, add milk and broth. Mix with bread mixture. Stir in chicken. Put in a greased baking pan. Spread undiluted soup over top. Sprinkle with bread crumbs if desired.
Cover with foil and bake at 350F for 45. Remove foil and continue baking 10-15 minutes.

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Elizabeth XOXO

Macaroni with Cheese with Hot Dogs

When I was a kid, my Mom was a single mom of two. Things were really tight. If she knew of food assistance she didn’t have it. She was the most amazing strong woman! I definitely got my skill of making something of nothing from her. She was so creative.

She made this recipe up and it became one of our all time favorites for dinner or even lunch.

It was requested at my house today for lunch so I decided to share it with you! I did really hesitate though….. Most people are very turned off by the name. Hot dogs in mac and cheese? Ewww. Yeah, it’s not a pretty dish. You gotta trust me on this though! Really, you do!

My kids, my husband and every daycare child I have had in thirty years has loved this stuff!

Give it a chance, try it out! I would love to hear how your kids liked it!

Enjoy!

Elizabeth XOXO

Macaroni and Cheese with Hot Dogs

Serves 6

Ingredients:

3 cups uncooked macaroni
1 package sliced hot dogs
1 (15-ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
salt to taste
pepper to taste

Directions:

Bring salted water to a boil. Add macaroni and cook according to package directions. In the last 3 minutes of cooking, add sliced hot dogs. Drain. Return noodles and sliced hot dogs to the pan. Add tomato sauce, diced canned tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste. Gently stir in shredded cheddar cheese. Do not over stir.

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Something from Nothing, My Super Power!

These are tough times. We don’t all have all the things we need. Pantries are getting thin, money is tight or just flat out isn’t there. Things we’ve always taken for granted, such as toilet paper is nearly impossible to find.

It’s not as easy or wise to just grab something for dinner on the way home. It is time to really be smart with what we have.

The first step in doing that is KNOWING what we have! I went through my chest freezer and pantry and wrote every single thing down. Because I am super OCD about that kind of stuff I put it all in an Excel spreadsheet so that I can just click on “Poultry” and see all the chicken and turkey items I have to work with and which freezer it is in. Maybe that is little over the top but I am pretty excited about it!

Now that I know exactly what I have to work with I won’t be needlessly buying things I already have and will spend less time and money in the grocery store.

When we were first married we were really broke. Then we had three kids and we were really, really broke! We somehow managed to get the bills paid, most of the time, but there was never anything left for groceries. I learned very quickly how to make meals out of what I had or with a very small grocery list. It became my super power!!

You can make a meal if you have some kind of protein, a starch, a vegetable and then make a sauce to put it all together!

I am going to share some recipes with you for a while that are NOT fancy but are simple, easy, and inexpensive to make, with not many ingredients, and hopefully with things that you already have!

It’s good to be frugal, not just in tough times but good times as well. Use this time to create better habits, teach your kids to cook, bond over dinner and pray.

Here is my recipe for Shepherd’s Pie. Enjoy!


Shepherd’s Pie

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

1 1/2 poundsground beef
1medium onion chopped
1 (10 3/4-ounce) cancream of mushroom soup
2 cansgreen beans drained
4(approximately) potatoes mashed (leftover mashed potatoes are great!)
dashblack pepper
dashsalt
1-2 cupsshredded Cheddar cheese

Directions:

Saute onion and beef. Drain. Stir in mushroom soup. Season with salt and pepper. Put in bottom of greased 9×13 baking dish. Put green beans on top of that….Spread mashed potatoes on top. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes or until hot. In last few minutes of baking, sprinkle with cheese and return to oven to let cheese melt.


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