Recipe: Classy Chicken!

This is one of my favourite recipes, the one that I always chose when I could have anything outside of chocolate cake for my birthday dinner. I got the recipe for it last night from my mom, and wrote it out in my Vintage Duluth recipe book (I will one day pass this on to my grandchildren, despite the fact I have written things like, "FUCKEN AWESOME" in the margins of the recipes, and made an impressive attempt to blaspheme on every second page.) (I mean, when / if I have grandchildren. We have just established, after all, that I am an unloved spinster with hairy, bushwoman legs.) (Actually, Internet, this isn't entirely true... because I couldn't stand it anymore and shaved away. I even bought lotion. Sigh.)

I love the name of this recipe, because really, if I can be classy why can't my poultry be classy, too? It's entirely possible poultry could actually surpass me in classyness, actually, considering I'm the type of girl who wantonly flings her food around at fancy restaurants and manages to walk around all afternoon with vomit in her hair (Uhhhm... ) and I'm like, 70% sure that no chicken has ever done that. All afternoon. Even at the grocery store.

But back to food, because .... that's appetizing after the above paragraph.

(I am making this in the next hour actually... I'm currently cooking up a batch of Best Fucken Ever Banana Muffins, and then I'll try my hand at the chicken. I will let you all know how it goes, and what I manage to burn down. I already half ripped the oven door off with my Hulk strength, so.. things can only get better.)

YOU WILL NEED:

• Chicken
  
• Broccoli
  
• 1 can cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup
  
• Half cup Mayo
  
• As much or little cheese as you want. Chubby girls are hot, so I'd swing like, half a brick.

Cook the chicken until the outside is white -- it doesn't need to be fully cooked at this point. Boil broccoli, again they don't have to be completely cooked through.

Line the bottom of a casserole dish with as much broccoli as you want, usually about a layer.

Put the chicken on top.

Now you are ready to rock the world with your cream sauce.



SAUCE:

Mix the chicken soup together with the mayo.

Add a tsp of lemon juice. (Or be like me, and completely forget this.)

Cup of grated cheddar cheese.

Pour over top the broccoli and the chicken. Cover the entire thing with yet more cheese. Bake uncovered in the oven @ 350 for a half hour.

Serve with rice, because that is how it should be.

*Update: This was awesome, except that I was talking to Brad on the phone when I was making the sauce, and I got distracted, and before I knew it I had put like, half a jar of mayo into the sauce. Which is kind of gross when you think about it, however, the classy chicken still turned out ... well. Edible.

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