I have seen this guy all over Instagram (@yourbarefootneighbor) and have been so intrigued about his cookbook. He is Matthew Bounds, and his cookbook is called Keep It Simple Y’all. His cookbook is full of very simple family meals that you can make in the crock pot, sheet pan and Dutch oven. Basically, all one-pot cooking recipes, which I love.
Apparently, one of his earliest recipes, “Chicken Cobbler”, went viral to the extent that he was invited onto the Good Morning America show to demonstrate it. I decided to go ahead and make it and share the results with you all. Or “y’all” as Matthew would say.
The first step was to gather my ingredients for the Chicken Cobbler recipe. What you need is the meat from a rotisserie chicken, some frozen veggies, a box of biscuit mix, milk, some cream of chicken soup, broth, salt, pepper, and butter. I used cream of chicken soup with herbs, my frozen veggies were C&W’s Ultimate Southwest Vegetable Mix, and a box of Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuit mix. Apparently the biscuit mix is the key ingredient. I had never noticed it before, but sure enough, my local Savemart had it.
The prep could not have been easier. You spread the rotisserie chicken pieces on the bottom of a large baking pan and top with the frozen veggies. Top with combined biscuit mix and milk, and then cover all with the cream of chicken soup and broth, which you have also combined. Do not mix anything together in the baking pan, just layer one thing over the next. When you bake it, some kind of magic occurs and you end up with a yummy chicken pot pie kind of mixture with a biscuity/cobbler topping.
Dennis and I both liked it, but agreed, it needed more seasoning. I should have seasoned each layer better before adding the next. Not with salt (because the soup is salty), but with some kind of herb seasoning mixture for more flavor.
Now of course we will be eating this for the next four days. Next time, I will cut the recipe in half and make it in a 9-inch square pan. This is a great recipe for a large family, or if you want lots of leftovers. We barely made a dent in it, hence my plan to make a half recipe next time.
Have you seen this guy on Instagram too? Have you tried any of his recipes?
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Sounds good! Will have to give this one a try.
That does sound good! We have the same problem with recipes that are too large. I like leftovers, but not for days. I share with a neighbor alot. How do you cut in half a recipe when it calls for a can of soup or something not easily halved?
By the way, your quilting isn’t showing on email page again 🙁
Sorry, when you say my quilting isn’t showing on the main email page, I don’t understand what you mean. I didn’t post any pictures of quilting in this post, just a recipe.
Sounds like many of the “hot dish” recipes of the many church cookbooks. Have you seen any of Brenda Gantt cookbooks? Old fashioned recipes plus other stories of her life. I like reading them.
I have not seen Brenda’s cookbooks. I will check them out!
Sounds delicious! One pan cooking is so good.
Matthew is a hoot! Super generous and does lots for his community,
I have his cookbook and have made several of the recipes. All good but , like you, I need to cut them in half.
HIs new cookbook comes out in April.
I preordered it!
Your chicken noodle casserole is in regular rotation at our house. This one will probably fall into that category, too! I’m going to look on Amazon for that cookbook. Thanks for sharing!
It sounds and looks delicious but we certainly need no more cookbooks as we must have more than 500! Hope his recipes are on-line.
BTW, as a life long Southerner, “y’all” is always plural – never, ever when talking to just one person!
Hugs!
Ooh, that sounds good! I will have to try it soon.