Gordon doesn't like macaroni and cheese and that is what my 4B had planned for dinner. So I thought I would help her out and fix an additional something. I didn't really care for them, but Gordon REALLY liked them and my girls liked them as well. But I didn't follow the recipe that was given at the website because I didn't have all the ingredients and this wasn't a planned vacation excursion. This was a spur of the moment excursion. So this is what I substituted:
-I used canned chicken for the cooked shredded chicken (partly because 3B was complaining that we had SOOoooOOO much canned chicken in storage). I opened the three little cans and one of the large ones.-For the hot sauce, I substituted Sriacha sauce. I used 1/4 cup for most of it. Since Gordon likes his food hotter than the rest of us, I added another 1/4 cup to his portion which equalled about 1/5 of the recipes.
-I LOVE cream cheese, so I used all 8 oz and it was the Fat Free version of cream cheese.
-I probably came close on the amount of shredded cheddar cheese I was suppose to use.
-I didn't have any mature enough green onions, so I went out to my garden and retrieved some chives - which I generally like better anyway. (Though, we are big fans of cutting off the tops of green onions and leaving the bulbs in water to regrow - which we learned from Pinterest.:o))
-I did use white flour.
-I think I had one egg left, so I pulled out some powdered egg whites and mixed them in with the "juices" the chicken was packed in.
-I don't think anyone in my family particularly likes corn flakes, so we seldom have them in our home, but Special K Protein Plus is a constant (because of Thrive! which you'll learn more about in weeks to come OR you could read a really old post). We just smooshed these up and used them in the place of the corn flakes.
We did bake them on the parchment paper (I can't remember which Pinterest project I originally bought that for, but glad we had it hanging around the house) at 350 degrees F for approximately 25 minutes. They held their shape fairly well.
As I said before, my family quite liked them. So I hope you give them a whirl either from the original recipe or from my out of the pantry renovation.
Stay tuned...for more of Pauline's Pinterest Vacation
P.S. I have four children: one son and three daughters. They are all my babies, so the oldest (at 19!) is sometimes nicknamed 1B on down to the youngest called affectionately 4B (at 12! and not really a baby anymore).
