Chicken Pie

Chicken again, and it is time consuming, but at the end of the post, I will tell you how I cheat on busy nights and I promise this is well worth it.

Chicken Pie

1 boiled and deboned chicken (save the broth)
1 can cream of chicken soup
2-4 boilded eggs (depending on how well you like eggs) chopped
1 cup flour
1 cup butter milk
1 stick butter melted

put chicken and eggs in baking dish
mix soup and 1/2 can broth then pour over chicken, mix
in a separate bowl, mix flour, buttermilk, and butter
pour on top, but do not stir
top with 2 cans of broth
cook on 350-400 for one hour.

This is much simpler than rolling out dough and cutting strips!

Now, for the secret, because I HATE deboning chicken, on nights that I dont want to go to this much trouble I use a rotisrerrie chicken from Walmart, I like lemon pepper that best!!!

This is great with green beans and tonight we are having cornbread with it too!

Potato Soup

Below is what we had for dinner on a wet, stormy Saturday! It is SOOOO much simpler than cutting the potatoes up.

1 bag Orieda Potatoes O'Brian
4 cans chicken broth
1 package of country gravy mix
shredded cheese

Put potatoes and chicken broth in crock pot (for several hours) or large pot. Cook until potatoes are done, a lot of days I put mine in on low and leave all day. Just before you serve, pour in instant gravy mix. Stir until dissolved. Top with shredded cheddar cheese. I also like mine with saltine crackers.

Cavatini

Here is another recipe that DOES NOT involve chicken, see I can do it! We had cavatini for dinner tonight. My kids LOVE itas does my brother, who incidentally did wind up eating with us. Brian hates it so we try and have it when he is not here. It is very easy to make and clean up is a breeze:

Cavatini:

1 box shells pasta
1 box rotini pasta
mozzerella cheese
ragu (or your favorite sauce)
pepperonis

Boil 1/2 box shells of each kind of pasta together.
Drain.
Line bottom of 9x13 baking dish with pepperoni, pour drained pasta on top. Pour sauce over and mix. Top with pepperoni and cheese. Put in oven at 350 and let cheese melt. It's great with some greasy nasty garlic bread.

Birthday Dinner

I cooked a big dinner for my Daddy's birthday. We had poppyseed chicken and then I followed it with Butterfinger cake. Both were delicious. Below is the recipe for Butterfinger Cake. It is super easy to make:

Butterfinger Cake

1 cake mix
1 jar caramel topping
1 can sweetened condensed milk
cool whip
several butterfinger candy bars (I used the mini kind)

Cook cake according to package directions.
While it is still warm, poke holes all over it.
Mix condensed milk and caramel topping and pour over cake (I would not use entire can of milk, or you will be cleaning up sticky goo.)
Crunch up some of the butterfingers and sprinkle on top.

Place in refrigerator and let cool (I left mine overnight)
Cover with cool whip and then sprinkle with more crunched up Butterfinger.

Yummy! I had a lot of help as you can see from the pic below!

I know, I know enough chicken

Several of you have commented that I have chicken too many times a week! So here is my tater tot casserole recipe that we have once a week. The kids LOVE it and it is usually reserved for a night that Brian is gone, not sure why, but it works out that way! I have scaled mine down a lot from the Duggar's and it is a little different!

Tater Tot Casserole

1 pound groundbeef
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
bag of tater tots
cheese (I use mozzerella)
onion (optional)

Brown hamburger meat, with onion if you choose, drain.
Layer bottom of 9x13 baking dish with tater tots. Pour hamburger meat on top. Some people like onion on top of that. Pour over cans of cream of mushroom on top. Cook for 45 minutes at 350. Top with cheese and put back in oven, let cheese melt.

Brandon eats his with tons of ketchup! I like it because I can fix it and stick it in the oven and do other stuff.

Poppyseed Chicken Post Dinner

Dinner was great. The chicken was very easy to make, boiling it in the pressure cooker took the longest. I used some smaller chicken breasts and then did not cut them up before I put them in the mix. I served it over rice and had butter beans from Calhouns, it was delicious!

Poppyseed Chicken

I know, we have not had anything exciting for dinner. We have had soccer 4 nights out of the week and been at Asahi! Then last night, Brian decided he wanted KFC and you heard NO objections from me!!

Sunday is Daddy's birthday and I plan to make the poppyseed chicken debut. My immediate family will be my guinea pigs tonight so I will let you know how it goes!

Poppy seed chicken

2 or 3 chicken breasts, boiled and cut in small pieces

1 16 oz sour cream

2 cans cream of chicken

2 tbls of poppyseeds

Ritz crackers

1 stick of butter

Mix the first 4 ingredients and put in a baking dish. Cover with crushed up ritz crackers. Melt a stick of butter and pour on top. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 350.

Seems easy enough doesnt it?

Swiss Stuffing Chicken Post Dinner

Well, it was delicious. FYI-if you buy wine, make sure you have a wine bottle opener. By the time Mama got here I had already dug it out with a screwdriver! (Dont worry, the cork was the same color as the dressing, noone noticed!) Just KIDDING! I mixed up the stuff to go on top and when I poured it over it did not cover it. So I had to double it. I served it over rice with green beans and place and bake crescent rolls and it was GREAT! I plan to take some for lunch tomorrow.

Here is the picture of mine, the first was Kelly's:




I am trying to decide what my next creation will be because we have soccer Thursday and Friday night.

First Post, What's For Dinner

Today is my first post on the recipe blog. This is what I am making for dinner tonight. I could not find any white cooking wine, so Terri said I could substitute. I hope that it works out!!



It is called swiss stuffing chicken and it is making my mouth water right now!!!

SWISS STUFFING CHICKEN



4 large skinless boneless chicken breasts
6 oz. Mozerella or Swiss cheese slices
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1/4 cup white cooking wine
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup herb-flavored crushed up Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix
1/2 stick butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place uncooked chicken in shallow buttered casserole dish. Layer cheese on top. Mix soup, wine, salt, pepper; pour over cheese. Sprinkle stuffing mix on top and drizzle with melted butter. Bake for 1 hour.