Southern Recipe Restoration Project

The contributors: La Tarsha Mills-McKie of College Park and her mother, Blanche Mills of East Point.
The story: “This recipe originated from Mrs. Holmes. She was the wife of my former pastor at the church I attended as a child. ... I adopted Mrs. Holmes as a grandmother, and she cherished her role in my life.
“When I graduated from college, like most families, we had dozens of family members come to celebrate. By this time, Mrs. Holmes had passed, but she had shared with my mother, Blanche Mills, a delicious, easy and quick recipe . It’s simply called chicken casserole."
— As told to Deborah Geering,
for the Journal-Constitution

This standard recipe is good all by itself, or you can fancy it up with a few variations, as described below. We used the Healthy Request line of Campbell’s condensed cream soups, and reduced the quantity slightly from Mrs. Holmes’ recipe.