Monday Night Dinner- A little Chicken and Poppy Seed Cake

Poppy Seed Cake.  My Mimi brought it almost every other  Sunday for dessert when I was a young girl.  She was an awesome cook, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and one of my best friends. She and along with my mother (of course!) taught me so many things.  I never realized until I became a mother all the useful and good things they taught me.  Today, I came across her Poppy Seed Cake recipe and decided to make it!  After you see the finished product, you will want to also!

The recipe.  My family is known for not using recipe cards.  I do the same thing too.  I have a drawer full of proper, fancy and beautiful cards but never use them.  All my recipes that I write down are on scraps of paper.  Junk mail, old note paper, anything is game!

This was stuck to the back and I love it.  Those who knew her best know her love for Floyd Cramer music.  If I ever hear the song, "Last Date", there is only one person I think of and that is my Mimi.   The top of the note she wrote for my Pop.  After a day out tending to cattle and horses, he always returned home to messages as such.  

The ingredients. Not pictured is sour cream.  (It was gone fishin' on picture day).  See all my notes from my little Jack- he is always leaving these for me. 

Here it is!  It showed up for re-takes.

Add the cake mix.  Super easy!

Add the sugar.

Add your eggs and I added my twist.  A little vanilla.  

Mix.  Then add that sour cream!

So creamy and good!

Now, here comes the fun part.  Add the poppy seeds!

Pretty!

It makes a big amount.

The three loaves are done.  My Mom and my sister will get the extra ones. 

The finished product!  So delicious!

Now, for the main course.  This is not a family recipe.  I repeat this is not a family recipe.  It is something I made up though so I guess I can call it a "new" family recipe!

Mix up some mayo, cheese (I used parmesan) and I added some chopped olives.  You could add whatever your little heart desires- sundried tomatoes, chopped onion, you get the idea!  Be sure to line your baking pan with foil and then spray non stick cooking spray.  Mess free!
Spread it on top of some boneless skinless chicken breasts.

Add some bread crumbs on top.  Just enough to cover the chicken.
 Now bake at 425 degrees for about 20 to 25 minutes.

The finished product!  So good!  The whole family approved!