1 env. herb & garlic soup mix
1 16 oz container sour cream
parmesan cheese to taste
evaporated milk to creaminess (more for sauce, less to coat)
1 16oz bag egg noodles
1 12.5oz can chunk chicken
Start noodles cooking. While waiting, mix sauce ingredients. Add chicken, mix.
Mix chicken and sauce with noodles, or serve on noodles.
Time, start to finish: 20 minutes, serves 5
Do you make your own peanut butter? I used to, but Hub likes Jif better (new research *may* show that they're not so health-conscious, but I'll worry about that later).
I haven't made any in a while, but recently we ran out and I had some peanuts that no one was eating so I figured I'd whip some up.
I've always done it in the blender. Takes a while, but works fine. This time, not so much.
I added honey, as usual. Nope. So I added a little oil (ick). Still crumbly.
Sigh. Throw out the whole batch? Never! Then we still wouldn't have any peanut butter...
Solution: mix chunky peanut butter with jelly first, then spread.
Voila. I feel like a genius.
If you know me at all, you know I don't eat beans. Green beans, yes. Waxed beans, yes. But kidney, black, garbanzo, etc...not so much. Like ever. And yet...here's the dinner I came up with for tonight.
The chicken was frozen and would've taken forever to thaw. And the hamburger was still in log form. Again, forever. And I watched a documentary recently ("Forks Over Knives" on Netflix) talk king about a plant-based diet.
Not lose-weight-diet, but way-of-eating-diet.
I like steak, and bacon, and sausage... I'm still a carnivore. But my family has been moving in a real-food direction over the last year or so, and you can't get away from the fact that beans, too, have protein.
And they're craaaaazy cheaper than meat. So I pulled up my big girl boots and gave it a shot.
Macaroni noodles, black beans, leftover Walmart pasta sauce (just about the most pathetic pasta sauce I've ever seen, but I was looking for cheap at the time), and leftover frozen peas and carrots.
Obviously there's a lot of room for improvement in that list, but it's a(nother) start.
I'll let you know how it turned out...and more importantly, how the 3-, 6-, and 9-year holds liked it. (Truthfully, it's doubtful they'll eat the beans. C'est la vie.)
Oh, I made cornbread, too. Yum.
