Mommys of America easy winter cooking, #2: Easy Chicken Casserole

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Thursday, January 3. 2013

Mommys of America easy winter cooking, #2: Easy Chicken Casserole

The Mommys of America commonly made winter casseroles using cans of Campbell's soups. Mushroom soup, especially. We're getting into Hotdish territory here.

In the good old days, eating in restaurants was not routine as it is now, but instead was a special treat for birthdays and anniversaries. Take-out Chinese, much less Thai or sushi, did not exist. Moms used to have food budgets, but no more because good food has, blessedly, become such a small component of an American family budget.

I sure hope moms still make stuff like this: Easy Creamy Chicken Casserole because it is good, and heart-warming. Ritz cracker topping. Wow. Put it on white rice.

Then home-made chocolate pudding for dessert with Jiffy Whip or Cool Whip on top. Perfection. Thanks, Moms of America!

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 16:11 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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I used to have a Campbell's Soup cookbook. One of my favorites, circa 1985/90, was a take on macaroni and cheese where you sauteed some onions, added a can of mushroom soup and maybe a little milk, then added about a cup and a half of grated cheddar and your pasta. I used to use bow ties (farfalle). You could add chicken to this if you wanted to. I confess, I ate this quite often in my young, bachelorette days. Easy to reconstruct, of course, without the canned soup.

#1 D on 2013-01-03 16:34 (Reply)

I once had a recipe for Harry's Chicken Soup (a la Harry's Bar Roma), from a Sunset Italian cookbook. It was a cream of chicken soup, with Parmesan and eggs, plus homemade stock and shredded meat from a whole chicken, as I recall.. I keep looking for it online with no luck

#2 AWhite on 2013-01-03 17:17 (Reply)

What shame that Ritz crackers no contain high fructose corn syrup.

I refuse to buy anything with that ingredient.

#3 Miriam on 2013-01-03 20:56 (Reply)

There's a little bit of chicken in that recipe, don't be fooled. It isn't all sour cream and butter.

#4 chuck on 2013-01-04 05:07 (Reply)

Did anybody else have a grandmother, growing up, who kept a real cookie jar filled w/ homemade cookies? Nothing fancy: sugar cookies, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin That is the most luxurious food in the world to me. To be able to walk into a kitchen and seea pretty jar, filled w/ cookies, and you can take as many as you want (after all, she's your grandmother, not your mother!)

Also, my grandmother always had a jar of home-made iced tea in the fridge in the summer. Just there, like magic! She flavored it w/ real mint and oranges.

#5 Park Slope Pubby on 2013-01-04 12:54 (Reply)

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