Day 15

What's on the menu:

Chicken pot pie casserole
Butterbeans
Dumplings
Homemade banana ice cream

Chicken pot pie casserole

Boil chicken in a pot with about 2 quarts of water; save broth.

Debone chicken and put into a casserole dish that has been sprayed.

Mix together:
2 cups broth
1 can of cream of chicken soup
Bring to a boil and pour over chicken already pulled off bone and in dish

Topping:
1 stick melted butter
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 cup self rising flour
1 cup buttermilk

Bake at 425 degrees for about thirty minutes or until topping crust is brown.
This recipe was shared with me by a co-worker of mine over twenty years ago. Her name was Mrs. Mercer. She was a great cook so I loved for her to share recipes with me.

Butterbeans

These butterbeans were home grown and frozen from our garden. I put them in a medium sauce pan with water and chicken broth. To this I added 1 envelope of dry chicken broth and about 2 TBs of butter buds.

I cook them on medium heat for about an hour. This method was shared with me by my friend Beth.

Dumplings

I used Anne's dumplings that you can find in the frozen food section in your grocery store. The directions are on back of the package.

I would rather have homemade dumplings but today just was not a day I wanted to make them.

Anne's dumplings suited me just fine today.

Homemade banana ice cream

I make my custard and cook in a double boiler about ten minutes or until custard is very hot and eggs are done.

Custard:
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups of half and half
1 1/2 cups of regular milk

When custard is done; remove from heat and allow to totally cool. Then I mash with a fork two bananas and add to the custard.

I have a Cuisinart ice cream freezer with the tubs that stay in the freezer at all times. I take out the tub from the freezer when time to make the ice cream and pour the custard in the tub. Then I just turn the freezer on and it does all the work for you.

When I was growing up there were five of us children. We loved to eat homemade ice cream but did not like it when it was our turn to crank that handle on the old freezer.