My Latest Creation

 As many of you already know, my wife stopped cooking once she retired, so I am responsible for preparing and cooking my own meals.  This does not really bother me and I think she has a right to stop cooking after cooking for so many years.  However, I am not too fond of the cleaning up afterwards so I have tried not just to be careful when I cook but come up with one pan recipes.

Yesterday, was one of those days where I came up with something new.  Not sure what you would call it other than a chicken pasta casserole.

I started with two cans of cream of chicken soup to which I added a can and a half of water.  Hindsight tells me this was a tad too much water, so next time I will just use one can of water.

Next, I cut up a yellow onion.  How you cut it up does not really matter.  I cut it in half, then made several slices on that half, then several slices the opposite way.

Next I cut up fresh broccoli so that the stems were very short to which I added a package of frozen peas.

Next I added about 2 cups of freshly cook spaghetti to which I added about 2 cups of a mixture of yellow and white cheese.  I like the Mexican cheese.

Salt and pepper were added next.  Not sure how much I just poured it into the palm of my hand and when it looked like I had a tablespoon, I stopped.

All of this was put into a big mixing bowl and blended with a wooden spoon thoroughly, adding in 4 chicken breasts.

Finally, I added about a half of a package of hush puppy mix in the hopes that this would bind all of the ingredients together.

A glass, rectangular cooking bowl was selected as they seem to cook better than the metal ones.  I sprayed all around it with PAM and put it into oven at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.  I turned up the heat to 400 degrees and cooked it another 30 minutes.

Below is a photo of my creation, minus a little bowl that I had to eat after it cooled down a little...

BTW, the heat completely disintegrated almost all of the spaghetti noodles, so I think I will use rice next time instead.

I also think the hush puppy mixture was a nice touch and I am sure it would taste just as good with almost any kind of grain like cornmeal.