Happy Get Over Yourself Day: Church Cookbook recipes
I'm honestly so sick of my own throbbing numbness and waves of grief that I've decided to get off my self-constructed Pity Pot and do something to better this world. And what's better than food? So I rummaged through my mom's old church cookbooks and found a mouthwatering recipe that I think would cheer anybody up: Black Globs. PERFECT name, yes? Practically screams "choke me happy with refreshment."
Black Globs
1/2 c carob powder
1/2 c honey
1/2 c natural peanut butter (Skippy, my ass)
1/2 c sunflower seeds
1/2 c sesame seeds
1/4 c wheat germ (available at all fine wheat germ stores everywhere) 1/4 c soya grits (uhm what now?)
sweetened coconut crumbs (WTH is that? Shredded coconut, perhaps? Not a clue.)
Blend everything except the coconut crumbs, into a tar-like substance and form tar into balls (aka globs). THEN roll in the coconut crumbs. Refrigerate, and apparently keep them refrigerated because the globs are likely to revert to their natural tar-like state. Amuse yourself by hucking globs from car window when you pick your kid up from school.*
(*No not really.)
Casseroles come hither

It’s cold weather season– at least after the huge thunderstorm and the 40 degree weather this past weekend, we’re *almost* certain summer is over. And that means a return to the best rib-sticking foods the world has to offer: casseroles. Who doesn’t love a a delicious, mixed up bunch of stuff in a cheesy or creamy or gooey or gravy-like sauce? Who can resist such goodness when the weather turns cold?
And so, it is with much love and only a slight bit of trepidation that I offer you– straight from my mom’s 1979 Holy Spirit Parish church cookbook, the recipe for Phyllis Healy’s Chicken & Rice Casserole:
Chicken & Rice Casserole
1 can cream of celery soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 envelope of onion soup mix
2 cut up fryers (or 6 to 8 chicken breasts)
2 cups raw rice
2 cups white wine
Put the cream soups in the bottom of a 9×13 pan. Sprinkle rice and half of onion soup mix over the cream soups. Place chicken atop rice and sprinkle rest of soup packet. Pour wine over all. Bake at 325 for 2 hours, covered. Serves 6 to 8.

Perpetually anxious/simultaneously exhausted mom of a blended family of 7 kids & 2 pets. Writer about same. Wife to one amazingly patient husband. Drinker of wine. 




