I will just thicken my homemade canned chicken broth or add a spoon full of chicken flavor soup base or bouillon. I also used celery seed for cream of celery, or just add onion and/or garlic powder. Soak dried mushrooms in water, thicken the mushroom water for cream of mushroom soup.I wish I could find a source for casseroles made with natural ingredients. I know how to make a good "white sauce" that works for thickening, but what would you do to make a substitute for, for instance, canned cream of chicken soup? Without using packaged ingredients? Just use a concentrated chicken broth for the liquid in white sauce?
Nyboy is trying to keep the kitchen from burning down.