Brown meat in small amount of oil. Add green pepper, onion, celery- sauté until onion is translucent. Mix all ingredients, place in casserole dish, and bake, uncovered, at 325 degrees for 2 hours

Cook spaghetti according to package directions and drain. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add mushrooms and cook until tender, then reduce heat to low. Add garlic and cheese. Continue to cook mixture until cheese is melted, then blend in milk. Add chicken, Worcestershire, and spaghetti, then mix ingredients and place in a baking dish sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes at 350, or until hot and bubbly.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13″ casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray. Combine the chicken, noodles, mushrooms, soup and sour cream together. Pour into the casserole dish. Sprinkle with the cheese. Bake for 45 minutes.

In a large skillet, saute the spinach, mushrooms, onions and pecans in oil until mushrooms are tender. Set aside and keep warm.

Sprinkle chicken with seasoning. Grill chicken, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 4-5 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 170°.

Top with cheese. Cover and grill 2-3 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. To serve, top each chicken breast with reserved spinach mixture.

Serves 4

In a large saucepan, combine the black-eyed peas and water and let them soak overnight.

When ready to cook bring the beans and the liquid to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer until the beans are tender, about 50 minutes.

Transfer the beans and liquid to a 3-quart no-stick baking dish.
In saucepan addd the oil and warm over medium heat. < LI>Add the onions, green peppers and mushrooms and saute for about 5 minutes
Add the garlic and collards.

Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes, or until the collards are just wilted.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

To the black-eyed peas and liquid, add the collard mixture, tomato sauce, ketchup, molasses, honey, mustard, parsley and hot-pepper sauce. Mix well. Cover and bake for 20 minutes.

-In 4 qt. saucepan, cover chicken with water. Add salt and pepper to taste and bring to a boil. Simmer until chicken is done. Remove from liquid and de-bone.

-Saute onion, green pepper, and mushrooms in butter. Add soups, chicken broth, Ro-Tel, and chili powder. Mix thoroughly; add chicken and cook until it starts to boil.

-Grease 9X13 inch pan. Spread the crushed chips evenly over the bottom. Pour chicken mixture over the chips evenly and cover with grated cheese.

-Bake in 325 degree oven for 40 minutes or until cheese is browned and bubbly.

Note: I rarely have time to de-bone chicken, so I usually use boned chicken breasts (which I keep on hand in the freezer). Simply boil the chicken breasts as you would the entire chicken and cut it in bite-size pieces. I’ve also been known to substitute ground beef instead chicken and it tastes wonderful!

Place beans in a saucepan and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until tender but still a little crisp.

Saute mushrooms, onion and garlic in oil until tender. Stir in water chestnuts and seasonings and cook just until heated through. Drain beans and stir into skillet. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 servings.

* This also works with frozen green beans, but not as good with canned green beans.

Sift flour into creams style corn. Add cream cheese (cubed) and onion salt; heat and stir until cheese melts. Drain whole kernel corn and mushrooms. Stir in mixture along with Swiss cheese. Toss crumbs with butter and set aside. Pour mixture in 1 1/2 quart casserole, bake, covered at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. Top with bread crumbs. Bake additional 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350°.

Brown Chicken in oil in large skillet for about 4 minutes on each side; remove from pan and set aside. In the same skillet, saute the peppers, onion, mushrooms and garlic until onions are translucent. Stir in the rice, broth, corn, salt and pepper and bring to a boil.

Put the rice mixture in a 9×13 baking dish, coated with non-stick spray. Top with chicken. Cover and bake for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake a few minutes longer, making sure the chicken is done.** Sprinkle with almonds and parsley. Yield: 6 servings.

Notes: *Can use two bouillon cubes with 2 cups water.
**You can tell if the chicken is done by piercing it with a knife or fork. If the juice is pink, it is not done. The juice must run clear for it to be done.

Topping:
1 small pkg. Stuffing Mix
1 cup Chicken Broth
1 stick Butter, melted

Saute the onion and celery in the butter. Add the rest of the ingredients except the topping. Mix topping and spread over the mixture. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Let stand at room temperature one hour, then bake at 350 degrees ’til brown and bubbly.

- From Nana’s Recipe Collection