Cooking with Eowyn
Jan. 30th, 2012 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalWell, so far I am on target with my New Year's resolution... four weeks, four recipes!
I have to admit, I was kind of skeptical about this Tortellini-Alfredo Casserole idea. I mean... I've made (variously shaped) pasta alfredo plenty of times, and I frequently add broccoli, so what's the big deal? Is the whole casserole bit really necessary? Well, no, although I did like the result of cooking the tortellini in the alfredo sauce (rather than boiling it on the stove). It gives the tortellini an added creaminess. And bread crumbs generally make anything better. The final verdict? Delicious, although not dramatically different from my usual routine.
Most normal people probably don't need this warning, but when selecting a baking dish, you should factor in that the tortellini tend to, um, expand as they cook? Yeah. Might've had a bit of overflow in the oven. (Although, in my defense, I had planned to cut the recipe in half, which would've been fine, and then ended up sort of 3/4-ing it, which stretched the capacity of my baking dish.)
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but my family always used to joke that my mom should publish a cookbook called "365 Days of Chicken." When I was growing up, she had so many different ways to make chicken that we estimated she could probably make it every day without repeating a recipe. Well, make that 366, because this Chicken with Maple Syrup Mustard Sauce deserves to be included. (Frankly, it's better than some of the ones my mom used to make, although we did nickname one of her recipes "Yicky Chicken," so...)
Since my grocery store utterly sucks, I could not find bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, so I had to make do with the boneless, skinless kind. Still tasty, although kind of makes the pan-searing less crucial. And even though it seems like a lot of steps (pan-searing, then roasting, then making the sauce), it's really pretty easy. I served it over rice, since I could get that started and then ignore it while I made the chicken. :) YUM. I'm looking forward to the leftovers!
I have to admit, I was kind of skeptical about this Tortellini-Alfredo Casserole idea. I mean... I've made (variously shaped) pasta alfredo plenty of times, and I frequently add broccoli, so what's the big deal? Is the whole casserole bit really necessary? Well, no, although I did like the result of cooking the tortellini in the alfredo sauce (rather than boiling it on the stove). It gives the tortellini an added creaminess. And bread crumbs generally make anything better. The final verdict? Delicious, although not dramatically different from my usual routine.
Most normal people probably don't need this warning, but when selecting a baking dish, you should factor in that the tortellini tend to, um, expand as they cook? Yeah. Might've had a bit of overflow in the oven. (Although, in my defense, I had planned to cut the recipe in half, which would've been fine, and then ended up sort of 3/4-ing it, which stretched the capacity of my baking dish.)
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but my family always used to joke that my mom should publish a cookbook called "365 Days of Chicken." When I was growing up, she had so many different ways to make chicken that we estimated she could probably make it every day without repeating a recipe. Well, make that 366, because this Chicken with Maple Syrup Mustard Sauce deserves to be included. (Frankly, it's better than some of the ones my mom used to make, although we did nickname one of her recipes "Yicky Chicken," so...)
Since my grocery store utterly sucks, I could not find bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, so I had to make do with the boneless, skinless kind. Still tasty, although kind of makes the pan-searing less crucial. And even though it seems like a lot of steps (pan-searing, then roasting, then making the sauce), it's really pretty easy. I served it over rice, since I could get that started and then ignore it while I made the chicken. :) YUM. I'm looking forward to the leftovers!
