For years I've shared my recipes that will feed a crowd. Crowds, large family gatherings and learning to cook from a mom and Granny who fed my brothers and all their friends was normal for me.
My - The Ranch Kitchen's Chicken Spaghetti is no exception and for years usually the only time I make this huge batch recipe is for our Hereford family friends at our cow shows.
It sounds like a funny joke for someone who advocates for beef to showcase one of her favorite recipes being that with the main meat being chicken! But chicken it is and my The Ranch Kitchen's Chicken Spaghetti has become a main dish that is expected at gatherings in the winter at the National Hereford Show in Fort Worth, the Houston Jr. Livestock Show for our Gilmer FFA kiddos and then it's a must for one meal during our National Junior Hereford Shows wherever we land across the USA each summer.
This meal is easy to make in large roaster ovens where we easily feed not just our Texas friends, but sweet family friends and guest from across the US. If you ask my daughter's friends what meal they associate with me, it's this simple dish. And on the rare occasion that I didn't make this during a cattle show, it's the first thing I hear about and asked just where is it?!!
So tonight as I sit to FINALLY get my recipe on my site with the family portion sized recipe, please know that although I'm used to making it for a crowd, this recipe paired down is just as good. It will still make a large amount, but will freeze and hold over well for a few days if you just can't eat it all in one sitting as we say in the south!
In this recipe you can use chicken from a can for ease or baked chicken you cook yourself. I prefer to bake my chicken and shred or chop into chunk sized bites. I also will never again make the mistake to use cheaper variety thin spaghetti noodles as you only want a good 'named' quality brand that will remain firm and not become mushy. So pay the extra few cents on the noodles and you'll thank me later.
My husband is not particularly a cheese lover in anything, but he loves the addition of Velvetta Processed Cheese in this recipe. If you want it cheesier, then add more...but only add a little at a time until you get the chicken spaghetti to the consistency you want.
To reheat this dish you can use your trusty microwave or add a cup of chicken broth to a non-stick stove top pan to warm it all back up the next night.
So without further delay and with much prodding from my dear friends for a smaller quantity recipe for my most sought after recipe here on the site that for some crazy reason I've never placed on it.....here you go! My middle daughter Bethany once made this for her Hereford friends at Texas A&M with the large recipe found her on the site. She had made so much, that they ate it literally for a week and then much to my surprised pawned it off on a few of her guy friends at the end of the week six days later! I sure hoped it was still worthy of eating and the boys fared well after it being in the fridge for that long! Kids! Glad they enjoyed it, but about scared me to death!
So eat your heart out! Share the recipe and remember that nobody said cooking had to be hard! It's a meal like this that I have made innumerable friends with, made someone feel welcome and given them a taste of The Ranch Kitchen!
Enjoy and I hope you will make this recipe for my The Ranch Kitchen Chicken Spaghetti real soon!
If you like it, please share, comment below or on The Ranch Kitchen's Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. To keep seeing my post on these sites you have to click to like or share to keep it current on your feed. Sadly new settings on these sites limit pages like mine in visibility unless I pay for my post...which is pretty costly!
As always thanks for following my site, being an inspiration to me to keep on blogging and for trying out my recipes!
In closing, as I write my 200th post for The Ranch Kitchen site...it is very, very appropriate that this The Ranch Kitchen's Chicken Spaghetti be the one! I honestly can not believe I've hit this mark!
So as they say...it's been fun....it's been real...and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for following The Ranch Kitchen! Life's an adventure and it's meant to be lived!
Alise Nolan
My - The Ranch Kitchen's Chicken Spaghetti is no exception and for years usually the only time I make this huge batch recipe is for our Hereford family friends at our cow shows.
It sounds like a funny joke for someone who advocates for beef to showcase one of her favorite recipes being that with the main meat being chicken! But chicken it is and my The Ranch Kitchen's Chicken Spaghetti has become a main dish that is expected at gatherings in the winter at the National Hereford Show in Fort Worth, the Houston Jr. Livestock Show for our Gilmer FFA kiddos and then it's a must for one meal during our National Junior Hereford Shows wherever we land across the USA each summer.
This meal is easy to make in large roaster ovens where we easily feed not just our Texas friends, but sweet family friends and guest from across the US. If you ask my daughter's friends what meal they associate with me, it's this simple dish. And on the rare occasion that I didn't make this during a cattle show, it's the first thing I hear about and asked just where is it?!!
So tonight as I sit to FINALLY get my recipe on my site with the family portion sized recipe, please know that although I'm used to making it for a crowd, this recipe paired down is just as good. It will still make a large amount, but will freeze and hold over well for a few days if you just can't eat it all in one sitting as we say in the south!
In this recipe you can use chicken from a can for ease or baked chicken you cook yourself. I prefer to bake my chicken and shred or chop into chunk sized bites. I also will never again make the mistake to use cheaper variety thin spaghetti noodles as you only want a good 'named' quality brand that will remain firm and not become mushy. So pay the extra few cents on the noodles and you'll thank me later.
My husband is not particularly a cheese lover in anything, but he loves the addition of Velvetta Processed Cheese in this recipe. If you want it cheesier, then add more...but only add a little at a time until you get the chicken spaghetti to the consistency you want.
To reheat this dish you can use your trusty microwave or add a cup of chicken broth to a non-stick stove top pan to warm it all back up the next night.
So without further delay and with much prodding from my dear friends for a smaller quantity recipe for my most sought after recipe here on the site that for some crazy reason I've never placed on it.....here you go! My middle daughter Bethany once made this for her Hereford friends at Texas A&M with the large recipe found her on the site. She had made so much, that they ate it literally for a week and then much to my surprised pawned it off on a few of her guy friends at the end of the week six days later! I sure hoped it was still worthy of eating and the boys fared well after it being in the fridge for that long! Kids! Glad they enjoyed it, but about scared me to death!
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So eat your heart out! Share the recipe and remember that nobody said cooking had to be hard! It's a meal like this that I have made innumerable friends with, made someone feel welcome and given them a taste of The Ranch Kitchen!
Enjoy and I hope you will make this recipe for my The Ranch Kitchen Chicken Spaghetti real soon!
If you like it, please share, comment below or on The Ranch Kitchen's Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. To keep seeing my post on these sites you have to click to like or share to keep it current on your feed. Sadly new settings on these sites limit pages like mine in visibility unless I pay for my post...which is pretty costly!
As always thanks for following my site, being an inspiration to me to keep on blogging and for trying out my recipes!
In closing, as I write my 200th post for The Ranch Kitchen site...it is very, very appropriate that this The Ranch Kitchen's Chicken Spaghetti be the one! I honestly can not believe I've hit this mark!
So as they say...it's been fun....it's been real...and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for following The Ranch Kitchen! Life's an adventure and it's meant to be lived!
Alise Nolan
