Chicken Casserole

This is a classic from the Ate Ender cook book from the Brandon Curling Club! Like so many Canadian home recipes this one uses canned soup as a base...unlike most this uses 2 cans and a packet of onion soup. i followed this one exactly with a few exceptions. We used half a pack of the onion soup thinking it would be too salty, it turned out perfect. Enjoy this classic!

Carrot Casserole

CARROT CASSEROLE!

While looking online for Manitoba Casseroles I came across a gem...The Ate Ender Cook Book from the Brandon Curling Club! From what I could see, they were solid recipes and the were certainly Prairie. Bidding was fierce but I managed to come out on top and it was shipped quickly from the seller in Arizona? The recipe I have tried first is a Carrot Casserole, this is a solid side dish authored by Champion Curler Mable Mitchell. Only note I would add to this is do the carrots first, I tend to cook in a very linear fashion so the carrots were last. Do them first or at least start them to boil before you get started on the sauce part. It was ample and delicious and would be a big hit at a potluck after a bonspiel! Enjoy and I did see Nanaimo Bars in the back of this book !

Pandeelodie (Corn Bread )

This one is always delicious. My Moms first cousin Joy lived in LA in the 60s and always sent us recipes and care packages of exotic ingredients in the mail. Things like Pandeolodie ( corn bread ) that needed canned chilies that Safeway or Stans IGA never stocked. The recipe is pretty accurate I have made it exactly as listed on Moms card in the past. This version used gluten free baking mix and I put a sprinkle of shredded mozzarella on top for flavor and to give it a nice brown top! Enjoy !

It was delicious !

Chicken Cacciatore

This was one of my Moms favorite dishes to make. After making it I can see why, its delicious and easy to make. It uses simple availible ingredients she could have grabbed from the freezer or cupboard and put together in a jiffy. I did not have an original recipie card so I found one on the web that was easy and pretty close to what I remember with the addition of marsicapone cheese. The original was taken from Olive Magazine and I did follow it pretty close, except I removed most of the skin. I still had lots of flavor and oil.

Bean Casserole

This is one from the vault...a collection of Manitoba Community cook books I have gathered from yardsales or used book stores. This is litteraly the stuff of dreams...you smell this cooking and you are transported to someones Moms kitchen in Gladstone or Kemnay! A few notes on this one, the recipie is accurate at LARGE like 6 quarts large! My spatial senses were tingling like " this is not going to fit in this plane " or in this case 3 quart casserole. So I split it in two after I combined everything and before I baked it. This is one for the Dutch oven when Im out camping like it 73' next summer Here is the recipie at taken from the vault! Thank You Evelyn Welsh

The Tuna Casserole

 This was a main stay on Nicol Ave and 22nd St. We ate this regularly and it was easy to make ahead and put in the oven when people got home from school, the Y or just a shift at Safeway! 

Don’t let the colour fool you the colour may be beige but the taste is great. The basic recipe is good and accurate as written by Mom.

 Enjoy!

BG

7 Layer Dinner

 The Missing Layer ! 

This was always a go to meal before there was even a thought of a slow cooker and decades before insta pan. While contacting "The Keeper of the Book” aka my sister to get the recipe card it was discovered that we were one layer short of 7! I seemed to remember carrots and added that…seems to work and it was delicious. This requires some lead time but it was worth it. We cooked in a fairly large cast iron Dutch Oven style pan and went for the full  hour and a half. Pre brown your ground meat!

I also seasoned the meat with a tablespoon of each of these:

Garlic powder

Onion powder

Worcester sauce 

And soy sauce