While my family was gone a couple of weeks ago, I did a bunch of prep cooking. We had lost the contents of our freezer, so I figured I could take the time I had to do some re-stocking. I had found two gallon sized bags of "bread crumbs" in the big freezer in the community food area. I had several chickens to de-bone, and I had a whole batch of home made gravy.
I spent most of the morning de-boning the chickens. Once I got that done, I decided to combine the gravy, a good portion of the chicken, the bags of "bread crumbs" with sage, parsley, eggs, etc., to make a giant chicken and stuffing casserole. I used my biggest bowl, probably about 3 gallons, to mix it in. Normally, I wouldn't taste an uncooked casserole, but I was prompted to do so.
I was appalled. Those "bread crumbs" weren't bread crumbs at all! They were cake crumbs!
Now what??
I wasn't about to waste that much food, but what could I do? It tasted like cake with sage and chicken in it. YUCK.
I phoned my sister, who is a great cook to get some ideas from her. We discussed several things, none of them feasible. Finally, after talking for at least a half hour, I had some ideas and went to work. First, I dumped in some vinegar and tasted it. Blech! I added cornmeal. Yuck! I dumped, added, mixed, tasted for at least another half an hour. What I finally ended up with is a casserole that tastes like cornbread stuffing with chicken in it.
Someday soon the boys will be eating cake for dinner, but SHH, don't tell them!
Blessings,
Sharron
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