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Hey y'all. 
 
Here's my riff on one of mrs. blues favorite dishes.
 
King Ranch Casserole.
 
The somewhat dubious origin of the dish called for canned cream of mushroom soup.
 
Here's a link to Lisa Fain's riff on it.
 
http://www.homesicktexan.com/2007/10/king-of-casseroles-king-ranch-chicken.html
 
For my riff I jezebel crock potted up a pile of chicken tenders with some of mrs. blues taco seasoning to which after shredding, I added black olives, sour cream, and jack and scheddar scheeze.
 

 
Grease up a cassy dish and do a layer of corn tortillah's, then the mix, and a layer of scheeze. Repeat.
 
While riffing, mellow down easy with a sriracha tequila bloody maria.
 

 
In the oven at 350f. In my riff, I let it go until the top layer of scheeze becomes almost like a pie crust.
 
Rocked it.
 

 
Because this was for mrs. blues, I didn't make it hot at all. Were it mine, I'd have about 40 pickled xalapa's all up in they 'thang.
 

 
Pics don't do this stuff justice y'all. Sure its basically chix enchilada's done in the oven, but its so dang good it had to have a name such as King Ranch.
 
Have mercy.
 
Dang, hombre. That is some Tejas comfort food rite up in heah. It is just begging for that canned jalapeno, carrot and onion puree shkoffed all over it like, diamonds on Liberace.
 
I'm road trippin' to my dear sweet mother's house tomorrow so Dani'll eat on that thang' all weekend.
 
Which is amazing because she doesn't eat leftovers.
 
That is what I think of as Texas Lasagna.
 
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