Day 45

What's on the menu:

Chicken cordon bleu
Butter beans
Buttered garlic noodles
North Carolina's favorite sweet potato pie

Chicken cordon bleu

4 chicken breast halves, boned
1/2 cup margarine ( I use only butter)
2-1/2 cups fresh bread crumbs ( I use store bought)
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp paprika
4 (1-1/2 x3 inch) slices boiled ham ( I use Va. baked ham)
4 (1-1/2 x 3inch) slices Swiss cheese

Pull or cut each breast open in middle to form pocket. Melt margarine in pie pan. Make fresh bread crumbs in blender or processor. Mix crumbs with salt and paprika in a second pie pan. Stuff each breast with a piece of ham and a piece of cheese. Roll stuffed breasts in melted margarine, then in crumbs. Coat well. Place in buttered baking dish and bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes or until brown.

I got this recipe out of a Rocky Mount, NC Junior Guild cookbook. My friend Nancy gave me this cookbook many years ago.

Butter beans

I used my frozen beans I put up this summer. Place beans in pot of water to cover the beans and then about a cup of liquid chicken broth. To this I add 1 pack of the powdered chicken broth and some butter buds. Cook about an hour or so and add salt and pepper.

Buttered garlic noodles

Boil egg noodles in salted water until done. Drain. Add a little butter and stir. Then add a little McCormick California style garlic salt. Stir until all the noodles are well coated.

North Carolina's favorite sweet potato pie

1-1/4 cups cook mashed sweet potatoes
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 package) French vanilla instant pudding
3/4 cup evaporated milk
2 large eggs, at room temperature
6 TB butter or margarine, softened
1-1/2 TB vanilla extract
9 inch unbaked pastry shell

1. In a large bowl of electric mixer, combine first eight ingredients. Beat at medium speed until well blended. Spread evenly into unbaked pastry shell.
2. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake 40 minutes longer or until set.

I went to a sweet potato festival many years ago and I picked up this little mini recipe book with all sweet potato recipes in it.