Comfort Food Galore

My car is sick. I had a bad day at work. A really bad day. I have PMS. I am grouchy and grumpy and not really being social.

It's midnight, and I'm eating dinner.

But on IRC, I mentioned that I was making comfort food for dinner...

I know I posted this somewhere else in someone's journal months ago, but here it is in mine...


Comfort Casserole...

(For a 9x12 or so casserole dish)

2 cans cream of mushroom soup (Could probably substitute cream of another veggie for it, although I might not recommend tomato)
1 package egg noodles-the wide or extra wide ones.
1 bag frozen veg (I like peas and carrots or broccoli, but mixed veggies would work too)
cooked poultry of some sort (usually 4-6 chicken quarters or the equivalent-generally this is a way to use up leftovers, but I like it enough that I cook chicken just to make it. The other thing I love is to use boiled chicken from when I make chicken soup with all the yummy dill flavor.)

Shred the poultry.
Cook noodles according to the package, drain but don't rinse. When you put the noodles in the pot, take the frozen veg out of the freezer and set them on the counter.
Mix noodles, poultry, soup and veg together, pour into casserole dish and bake at 350-ish until hot all the way through.

If you use the very secret chicken recipe from below, it's extra good if you take some of the onions from the gravy and mix them into the whole sloppy mess before you bake it

Eat.

Feel better.

(The secret chicken recipe follows. This is traditional fare in my house, passed down through generations of women. I'm not kidding...we always referred to it as "grandma's chicken" It makes a good gravy, which I used to make Kasha Varnishkes too...)

( the very secret chicken recipe )