Chin-Chin-Charlie is a meat-and-canned-soup casserole dressed up with traditionally Asian ingredients. This particular recipe comes to me by way of A Book of Favorite Recipes, a 1988 community cookbook from a Catholic parish in Krakow, Wisconsin, but these sorts of “Chinese” recipes show up frequently in older cookbooks. Like the Tuna Cashew Casserole, a traditional……
Ingredient: chow mein noodles
Tuna Cashew Casserole (Various, 1960s-1970s)
Tuna Cashew Casserole is an odd amalgam of cashews, canned tuna, cream of mushroom soup, and fried chow mein noodles. I’ve seen at least half a dozen variants of this recipe spread across different church cookbooks. The proportions and details vary but the key ingredients are the same. There’s usually a crunchy vegetable in there……