Tonight I made broccoli and breadsticks as well to go with it. Here is the recipe, it's from Seat Of the Pants Suppers.....my easy cookbook. The one you use when your mother taught you how to make pork chops which resemble beef jerky.
Ingredients (Hi, I love my new phone.)
Take 3 cups cooked chicken (I usually have some in the freezer, I make extra whenever I'm making a chicken dinner), mix with 3 cups rice and a jar of gravy (we use a fat free chicken gravy). Mix together and put in a pie plate.
Add melted butter to some italian bread crumbs, cover dish with the bread crumbs like a crust. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.
I did not have any precooked chicken on hand so I had to put some in a skillet.
Mix the rice, gravy and chicken all together. We usually eat brown rice but Logan's low fiber this week for the Indy Mini Marathon this weekend. It looks sort of unappealing. This is definite comfort-like food.
Take the bread crumbs (mixed with a couple tablespoons of butter) and put them all over the top. Bake at 350 for around 20 minutes and.....hello. You are khaki colored and not something I would serve to guests but still, you tantalize me.
Did They Eat It?
Logan: likes this dish, especially since it had white rice and he'd just run for 30 minutes before it was served. Have I mentioned how much I hate running? I hate running.
Max: "I remember this! I love this!"
Madison: "Sometimes I say I don't like the sauce on things....so I lick all the sauce off the part I like and then eat it and I can't understand why my mother impales herself on a butter knife when I say I don't like the sauce."
Melissa: I do like this, it's comfort food. My friend Chrissy makes something called Spam-A-Rama (yes.....made with Spam! And Velveeta!) and I like that too. There, I said it. Are you happy now?
Your blog makes me terrified to own a home, it also makes me scared to procreate – I am Little Miss Picky – will my children be picky also? Oh Lord, I'm scared.
Hahaha, seriously though, I am loving that Seat of Your Pants cookbook, I'm seeing myself purchaing that before I move in with the boyfriend.
Posted by: Allison | May 01, 2007 at 11:28 PM
The Madison comment is hilarious! You crack me up.
Posted by: virginia | May 02, 2007 at 12:36 AM
Is the rice already cooked prior to mixing with everything else?
Posted by: HoorayForSaturday | May 02, 2007 at 01:13 AM
Sounds delicious!
Also, I'll have to keep my eye out for Logan (although with so many other runners I don't think I'll see him...) - my husband and I are running the Indy Mini Marathon too.
Posted by: Lisa | May 02, 2007 at 08:51 AM
Yes! Sorry, rice is cooked before going into the pan. The idea is to use leftovers for this dish but since I'm only cooking about once a week these days...we don't have leftovers.
Posted by: melissaS | May 02, 2007 at 09:48 AM
Everybody has their Spam-a-Rama! At my house the comfort dinner is a hallowed ground turkey stroganoff my mom clipped out of Family Circle around 1977 -- my sibs and I have converted legions of boy/girlfriends and roommates and now spouses to its ugly, delectable charms. Too much sauce for Madison, or I would share the recipe here. :P
Posted by: m. | May 02, 2007 at 10:36 AM
I love this blog. I love the recipes. I love the reviews by every family member. I love what your kids say about the food.
I have two picky eaters at my house and this blog just makes me smile.
Thanks.
Posted by: laughing mommy | May 02, 2007 at 12:49 PM
I can't imagine what Madison's future married life is going to be like.
Love this blog!
Posted by: Steph | May 02, 2007 at 01:04 PM
Why does imminent marathon = needs low fiber diet? Prevent pooping en route?
Posted by: Diana | May 02, 2007 at 01:20 PM
I don't think I've seen you post one recipe that my picky husband wouldn't eat! We would live on Hamburger Helper and Kraft mac & cheese if he did the cooking around here. Our go-to comfort food is tater tot casserole. So good, but so completely unhealthy that I only make it once or twice a year.
Posted by: Brandi | May 02, 2007 at 03:24 PM
Drat - foiled again!
Posted by: cursingmama | May 02, 2007 at 03:59 PM
Yes, but what is the recipe for Spam-a-Rama?
Posted by: Peeved Michelle | May 10, 2007 at 02:25 PM
I made this and it was really dry. Should I have added water at some point? Or more gravy? It was really yummy after I poured water on my plate.
Posted by: cavale | January 04, 2008 at 03:07 PM
That's weird. No mine is always really liquid-y because of the gravy.
Did you use cooked rice?
Posted by: melissaS | January 04, 2008 at 03:36 PM
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of en-during blindness.
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