Last weekend I invited a friend from work over for dinner and decided to cook something from my cookbook. I decided to cook the chicken spaghetti recipe in the book. It was a simple sounding recipe that turned out to be a lot more work than I anticipated.
The first step was to cut up a full chicken a boil in a stock pot. This was not too bad, but cutting up a raw chicken is a little tricky. I also do not have a stockpot (Christmas gift idea!) so I had to make the chicken fit in the dutch oven that I have. It was a tight fit, but I was able to get it all in there.
After the chicken was done I removed the meat and saved two cups of the broth. I then used the remaining broth to cook the pasta noodles. This was a pretty neat idea for me since I have always just used plain water (boring) for cooking pasta.
While the pasta was cooking, I prepped the rest of the ingredients and shredded the chicken. Once the pasta was done cooking, I mixed everything together. Now let me tell you, the pioneer woman's number of serving is usually around eight and I only need to feed four. This means that everything that I have made from her cookbook has barely fit in the mixing bowls and cooking dished that I have. That woman must have some monstrous cookware to handle these servings.
Once everything was all done it smelled so good that we tore right into it before I took any pictures. I have nothing to show for this recipe for my followers. I am sorry my friends, but I will do better next time.
This one was a very good meal, 4 out of 5 notches on the belt (although I needed to let my belt out a little bit after I was done if that tells you anything)
Next up are Burgundy Mushrooms and Ribeye Steaks... yum!
Looking forward to "eating" with you soon!
Mark
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