Chicken and broccoli have been a favorite combination of mine since childhood. That’s why chicken divan is a dish I’ve been making for years.
Sometimes I throw together an
The trick is to cook the chicken most of the way on the stove top, but not completely so that it will finish cooking in the oven rather than become over cooked.
Since the recipe contains cheese, I put most of it into a large dish for the family, and make a small casserole dish with Daiya cheese that I can eat.
By the time I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I was very thin and extremely weak. One friend said I walked like an old woman. I couldn’t stay on my feet for long and kept a bar stool in the kitchen to sit on while I was cooking.
I had three young boys to care for, and cooking at all was challenging because of fatigue. Now I had to figure out how to cook gluten-free. One of the first things I learned was that I could prepare basic meat, vegetables, and potatoes or rice.
That’s how “Sunday Night Dinner” was born. It was one meal that was safe and easy for me to fix. So we had it every Sunday for months—until I was feeling better. Sunday Night Dinner consisted of a whole chicken cooked in the crock pot with carrots, celery, and onion, and instant mashed potatoes to go with it.
Trust me, we are not instant potatoes kind of people. My husband grew up in Idaho. Not the potato growing region, but still. We were both raised on lots of potatoes and they were never instant. However, I found a brand that was gluten free and we ate instant potatoes because it was all I could do. No one complained.
In case you’re wondering, my husband can’t cook. Really can’t cook. He was great about doing shopping and clean-up though. He’s also a terrific handy man and has saved us so much money by doing home improvements and house and car repairs himself.
Years later, Sunday Night Dinner is still a great meal to prepare. I use real potatoes now, and might cook some green beans to go with it, but it’s a basic meal that is easy and everyone enjoys it.
Slow cooker meals are great for fall evenings, especially if you are spending time as sports practices with the kids. We always enjoyed coming home from soccer practice to a hot crock pot meal.
Here’s my recipe, but it’s really a non-recipe like my
Chicken salad is a favorite around here. My gluten-free son particularly likes it and will eat it at home or at school as a snack. It’s naturally gluten and dairy free and I choose to use a soy free mayonnaise.
A friend of many recently made chicken salad with almonds and raisins. I really enjoyed it. Raisins are not a favorite of mine, but I like the sweetness they add to this salad and the almonds give it nice crunch. So, I thought I would come up with a recipe that included ingredient amounts since this month’s challenge is to
You can, of course, vary ingredient amounts to taste. I have a son who does not like a lot of mayonnaise, and so I went easy on it. You may want to add more.
I used leftover chicken breasts that I had cooked in the crock pot. With a large crock pot, it’s easy to cook enough for dinner and have plenty leftover for another meal or chicken salad.
You can use any cooked chicken you like, but I prefer white meat for this recipe.
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