For an easy family meal, try cooking this delicious chicken casserole. The surprising ingredients make it truly terrific. Chicken Spectacular Casserole The Chicken Casserole is sometimes called Chicken Spectacular, featuring wild rice, water chestnuts, and French-style green beans, giving it a twist on a classic chicken and rice casserole. It is generously topped with buttery her stuffing. My daughter introduced me to this recipe several years ago. Chicken Terrific is a favorite casserole on her dinner table and has become a favorite of mine. The dish makes a lot, and with five growing boys, she wants a dish that gives leftovers. Now that her family has grown, she makes two. This is not your typical casserole. The ingredients might surprise you, including wild rice, water chestnuts, French-style green beans, and a buttery herb stuffing that elevates it to the next level. In fact, it is better the next day when all the ingred...
Fresh Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

Fresh Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting is the ultimate Southern dessert for any special occasion or a delightful dinner with family. Fresh Homemade Strawberry Cake I often think of strawberry cake around Mother's Day. It possesses a certain charm, richness, softness, and sweetness that remind me of mothers. This Fresh Strawberry Cake is a little different from my Mother's heirloom recipe she made when I was growing up in the '50s. She made the cake from a white cake mix, strawberry jello, and a carton of frozen strawberries in their juice. The frosting was made with butter, powdered sugar, and a little of the frozen strawberries that give the glorious pink color, beautiful! In recent years, cake mixes have become increasingly smaller, making it more challenging to achieve the full volume of the original recipe in the cake batter. I began to see other recipes adding additional flour, sugar, and milk to the recipe, so I...