Chicken Casseroles & Unphotogenic Recipes
I’m busy as a bee working on my house this week but I wanted to take a minute and share these Chicken Casserole recipes and let you know I’ll be doing a live chat video on my facebook page around 1:00 PM central today though, if you’d like to tune in! Thanks to Mama for standing in today with two delicious recipes! ~Christy
You’d never know how good some recipes are by looking at them…
Have you ever looked at a picture of yourself and just knew that it wasn’t a great one? The picture just didn’t capture all the goodness locked up inside. While a picture may be worth a thousand words, it is just a picture. The subject must become known and experienced to be truly appreciated. Christy and I were talking the other day about some our recipes which are family favorites but haven’t been shared with you because we know they are not very photogenic. In the age of social media we often dismiss things that don’t look very appealing in a picture. Our mothers and grandmothers relied on the recommendations of friends and family and hand written recipes. While photography is a wonderful thing, it doesn’t come with “smell-a-vision”. We have decided to ask you to rely on our recommendation and share some of these recipes with you.
The first recipe is one that my grandson, Jake, asked me to make for all the grandkids. His mom makes it and even picky Jake gives it his stamp of approval. After getting the recipe, I was very skeptical. It just didn’t seem like it could have very much flavor. His mom assured me that everyone seemed to love it so I decided to give it a try. The best part about this recipe is that it is so very simple. I can see me making this for the grandkids for lunch this summer. It is that easy! I make it using canned chicken and cream of chicken soup in the can. I know some of you had rather not used these ingredients so feel free to use rotisserie chicken or even cook your own. If you had rather not use canned soup, Christy has a homemade version in her cookbook, Come Home to Supper. However, I am one to take the easy road whenever possible and I’m still living so it can’t be all that bad. After making Chicken Noodle Casserole, I decided to be open minded and give it a try. I was really surprised. It was delicious! I hope you will take my word for it and give it a try. Add a salad or vegetable and some rolls and you have an easy weeknight meal on the table in no time flat.
The second recipe is staying with the chicken theme. This is a recipe that a friend brought me when I was in the bed with two broken legs. In case you missed it, both myself and Christy have broken both of our legs at the same time. Mine was in a car accident in 2004 and hers was a horse accident in 2013, so we really do have more in common than most mothers and daughters! I have seen this recipe at almost all of the reunions and potlucks here in the South. It is also an easy recipe that doesn’t require a lot of prep work. I do have to disclose though that the grandkids were leery of it when they saw the black specks in it. After much prodding, one of them had a spoonful and declared it great. Then the others had no choice but to try it too. They quickly became fans of Chicken Poppy Seed Casserole. If you decide to give either of these recipes a try, please leave us a comment and let us know what you thought of it. And if you are interested in seeing more of these unphotogenic recipes, let us know that too.
Ingredients
- 8 oz. egg noodles
- 1 can 12.5 oz. chicken breast
- 2 cans cream of chicken soup
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 slices loaf bread
- 1/2 stick butter or margarine
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and butter bottom and sides of 9X9 oven proof dish.
- Cook noodles according to package directions until tender, drain.
- Mix together noodles, chicken, soup, salt and pepper and pour into prepared dish.
- Crumble bread into bite size pieces and place on top of chicken mixture.
- Melt butter or margarine and drizzle over bread.
- Place in oven and bake for 30 minutes or until bubbly and bread is lightly browned.
Nutrition
Ingredients
- 2 cans 12.5 oz. chicken breasts or 2 chicken breasts cooked and chopped into bite size pieces.
- 1 8 oz. container sour cream
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1 sleeve Ritz crackers
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine melted
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place chicken in a greased 8X11 baking dish.
- Combine sour cream and soup. Pour over chicken.
- Crush crackers and mix with margarine and poppy seeds.
- Sprinkle over top of chicken.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until bubbly and crackers are lightly browned.
- Delicious served over rice. Recipe can be doubled and baked in a 9X13 inch dish.
I will use both of these recipes, sounds so good. Two beautiful Ladies.
Thanks so much. Keep us posted on how you like them. Mama
Poppyseed chicken is one of my all time favorites! My husband can’t stand casseroles or anything with cream of mushroom soup so I don’t get to have it very often! It’s the quintessential Southern casserole in my book!
I’m so lucky. My husband will eat almost anything except hominy which I love. I think maybe I’ll buy a can tonight and eat the entire thing. Thanks for reminding me. We all need to treat ourselves sometimes. Mama
Yum! I love Hominy, We had a big bowl for Easter Dinner and I told all the kids it was Manna from Heaven! Heehee
I am retired I enjoy reading your recipes on your website have you or any of your readers ever tried using instant potato flakes to thicken soups or stews instead of flour just sprinkle a little at a time to thicken it the way you like it. works for me.
That is one of our favorite things to do. You are so right. It works really well Mama
Both do sound good!
I believe this is the first photo I’ve ever seen of you. Christy never mentioned that her mother is GORGEOUS!
I just love you Maryann! But I hate to be the one to let you know that you may need glasses. Haha. Just kidding. Thanks for the lovely compliment! Mama
Two of our go to recipes! My mother made the chicken noodle casserole for years and years. We had poppyseed casserole for dinner last night served over rice. Love reading Southern Plate!!
Thanks for the comment. Now I know it isn’t just me that loves it! Mama
I don’t eat chicken, but that Chicken Noodle Casserole sounds delicious!
Please give it a try and
Let me know what you and your family thinks mama
I am going to give these chicken recipes a try. However, I want to tell you how much LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, you website! You are the greatest! I love cooking and you have the best variety! I will soon be 81 years old and I never have problems copying your recipes,!!!! Keep up the good work!
Awww, thank you so much Carolyn!!! Have a blessed day!
Both of these look soooo good! BTW, did you know if a person eats anything with poppy seeds…casserole, dressing, etc., they’ll fail a drug test? I never knew until my nephew, employed by the county, turned down poppy seed dressing.
The urban legend about failing a drug test if you eat poppy seeds is false. I am an RN (registered nurse) and a CADC (certified alcohol and drug counselor). Go ahead and enjoy the casserole and salad!
I personally know of a person who failed a drug test because of poppy seeds a few years back.
Are there really enough poppy seeds to affect the outcome of a drug test?
Gosh, me too! My husband knows a guy that that happened to. I wish I knew for sure because I LOVE Poppy seeds, particularly in cake and bagels but the hubs won’t eat them for the drug-test reason.
Christy, I’d bet if anyone could find out for sure, it’d be you…I would trust it from you. Since you don’t have anything else to do, could you get on that for us? LOL!!
I used to work at a Pain & Rehab office. To test the poppy seed theory, one of our workers did a urine test = negative. She then ate a poppy seed bagel & the seeds that had fallen off the bagel. The urine test was repeated. This time showing positive for opioids! I witnessed this with my own eyes. We were all a little suprised.
That is absolutely true! I worked for one company and they needed a random drug screen test to nail one particular employee. They picked ones that they knew were clean and one man older man that I was positive did not do drugs failed. It turned out that he had a poppy seed bagel for breakfast.
It is my understanding that today’s drug testing is more sophisticated than it used to be. Therefore, no worries about poppy seeds. Plus you can always protest the test and re-take it.
This may help with the poppy seed controversy.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp