This recipe is adapted from one I received at a “kitchen” wedding shower. It has always been one of our favorites! It tastes best if you make it the day before; giving the flavors more time to blend. You can also dress it up by keeping the tortillas whole and rolling the chicken mixture into enchiladas. If you do this, I’d recommend reserving about 1/2 of the soup mixture and adding chicken to the other half. Fill your tortillas with the chicken mixture and pour the reserved “soup” mixture over the top before baking.
Category Archives: Wheat
Pecan Chicken Casserole
This casserole is just plain good! There’s something comforting about creamy rice and chicken with a hint of rosemary. And the nutty flavor of pecans along with the mandarin oranges is a taste sensation that will make your mouth sing!
Ginger Plum Scones
I put dried plums, from my aunt’s plum tree, in these scones, but any dried fruit will work. Try raisins, dried cranberries, pears or apples!
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Brownies
Who doesn’t love brownies?! This is one of our all-time favorite recipes! I couldn’t resist trying it with beans instead of butter, and the result was surprisingly good! My kids thought they’d died and gone to heaven when I let them eat brownies for breakfast! –Mellyn 
Whole Wheat Baking Mix
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I am not usually a “mix” kind of girl, but I have some tried and true “Bisquick” recipes that I reach for in a time pinch. I created this concoction so even when I want to use wheat I can still go for my easy recipes. Don’t worry! If you aren’t a wheat person this recipe is still very valuable. Just use white flour in place of the wheat and you have a cost saving alternative to high priced brand names.
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French Apple Pie
This pie is a cross between a pie and a crisp. It’s so good, I couldn’t even get the picture taken before a slice was gone! Don’t be put off by the GIGANTIC list of ingredients. With an oatmeal crust you can press into the pan, this dessert comes together really quickly. Even my father-in-law, who’s not a big pie fan, enjoyed it! –Mellyn
Cheesy Apple Muffins
Going without cheese is no option for our family. My grandfather loved cheese so much he would put it in his morning oatmeal. I guess you could say grandpa was the inspiration for these muffins. They are full of apples, but the cheese makes them awesome and adds variety to the kinds of things my food storage brings to my breakfast table. Yes, I spend the extra money on freeze-dried cheeses, but I shop the sales and stock up when I find it for $15-$20 a #10 can. I also feel $40 a can is too much, but when things are on sale, I can justify a lot.
Don’t Forget Lunch!
Sometimes I get caught up in planning dinner and I overlook lunch. But when noon rolls around, lunch never seems to get overlooked by the toddlers in our house. They know before anyone that lunch must come and SOON. Planning a lunch recipe might seem silly when slapping PB&J on bread is a natural reaction to the toddler tug on the pant leg, but having the recipe in your plan ensures that you will have enough in your storage when the need is there.
Apple Pancakes
Don’t let the long list of ingredients keep you from trying these. They are inspired by a family recipe given to me from my mother-in-law. We can’t live without these special pancakes so I was just determined to make them out of shelf stable ingredients. They do not disappoint.
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Cream of “Chicken” Soup
After realizing my family can’t rotate 40 cans of cream of chicken soup fast enough to keep them from expiring, I was determined to find a way to make a replacement from scratch. At about the same time I discovered bean flour and the miraculous way it can substitute for butter and oils. This recipe is the marriage of those two ideas! The canned stuff is creamier in its condensed form, but as I’ve used this substitution in our recipes, we haven’t noticed the difference. In fact, Spicy Girl poured today’s batch (I was trying to get you a good photo!) all over her pasta at dinner and pronounced it delicious! Which gives me an idea for a casserole…
Speaking of the picture…cream of chicken soup isn’t exactly a glamorous specimen of culinary delight. Open at your own risk!
Chicken Pot Pie
A Betty Crocker version of this recipe was the first “real” food I learned to cook, and it’s still a family favorite. (Heck, I even forked out the cash for freeze-dried peas! No mooshy green peas in my pot pie!) Anyway, I keep about 25 pounds of butter in my freezer and planned to use part of it for chicken pot pie filling. But now that I’ve made the bean “discovery,” I can save my butter for places I won’t be trying beans — like spread on my toast at breakfast! –Mellyn
Pumpkin Scones
Now that my eyes are open to the many things that can be done with pumpkin, I’m excited to try more and more recipes. Unfortunately, many call for fresh ingredients. Sometimes making them out of food storage works well (with a little tweeking); sometimes it doesn’t. I was happy when I got this butter spread to work. The sugar really enhances the cranberries, and it was spreadable and yummy.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
You really don’t need a lot of chocolate chips in these muffins to give you the chocolate you crave. Mellyn taught me that if you reserve a few from the recipe to sprinkle on top it really makes a huge difference. Not only do they look more chocolate packed, they actually taste it too!
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Wrapping up “Wheat Week”
We’re wrapping up “Wheat Week” with answers to questions some of you asked about different wheats, gluten and dough enhancer. Be sure to check out “Rollin’ in the Dough,” where Karalene tells about her experience baking without the “extras.” And be sure to join us next week for Robin’s delicious pumpkin recipes!
Rollin’ in the Dough!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps a taste is worth a million? But hard to provide via blog…so we’re doing the next-best thing! Karalene baked the recipe we posted Monday without the “extras” and shares her opinion of the end product with photos below. Continue reading
Honey Nut ‘n Pumpkin Pancakes
These gourmet pancakes are nutty and sweet –they don’t even need syrup! I love to serve these to guests and then tell them they’re eating whole wheat pancakes. Seriously…can you believe this is food storage?!
– Mellyn
Fresh Tortillas for Dinner
Re-posted with permission from http://www.ourfoodstorage.com/2009/06/17/fresh-tortillas-for-dinner/
I love these tortillas because they’re so easy to roll out! And they taste delicious! Apparently they’re a favorite of many –I had three different people give me copies of this recipe! — Mellyn
You want me to eat THAT?!
If you’d like a glimpse of how wheat berries went over for breakfast at my house, read on!
Easy Wheat Berries
This recipe tells how to re-hydrate wheat overnight in your oven. Use it in the morning for a quick hot breakfast cereal or add a handful to soups, salads or casseroles to pump up the nutrtition.
From Julie L.
Donkey’s Waffles
A favorite Saturday morning breakfast at our house, these waffles were inspired by our favorite Betty Crocker recipe. –Mellyn
