Let’s be honest – Chili Wheat is not a particularly appetizing name for a supper dish. It sounds like it ought to be a snack food or some kind of hipster breakfast cereal. Or maybe even a bad joke. The truth is more mundane: think Chili Mac but with wheat instead of macaroni. To understand……
Tag: casserole
Chicken Delicious (Tennessee, 1978)
Chicken Delicious, from the Thorn Grove Baptist Church cookbook, is kind of like the casserole version of the everything bagel. It combines several different elements of 1960s/1970s cuisine into a single dish, and then amps it up to eleven by wrapping everything in bacon and seasoning with MSG. Outside of whatever fungal matter exists in……
Chin-Chin-Charlie (Wisconsin, 1988, adapted)
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……