I don't have 煮野食心得 because I am so lazy to cook most of the time. However, I love to watch the Food Network program on TV. I sometimes follow their recipe and tried at home. I mostally like to cook entree (non-Chinese cuisine) and seldom do cake/pie baking etc.
My 自創款式 is bascially open the fridge and see what I have at home and then dump everything together! haha... This is what I had the other day(s): prosciutto , shredded cheese, leftover salad greens etc put on a flat bread or pita bread, maybe add some tomato tapenade and done! It's a meal for me.
This is the copycat version of Cheesecake Factory's Louisiana Chicken Pasta. I followed the recipe to make the sauce for many times but I never made the chicken (too much work for me). :D I love the sauce. I sometimes just topped the pasta with grill salmon or those ready-to-eat chicken breast (microwavable).
Louisiana Chicken Pasta
Servings: 6
Chicken:
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
6 skinless boneless chicken breast halves
3/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons flour
Cajun Sauce:
1 tablespoon butter
1 small yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 small red bell pepper, chopped
3/4 small red onion, chopped
3 whole garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 1/4 pints whipping cream
1 cup low-salt chicken broth
4 tablespoons fresh basil, thinly sliced
1 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 package bow-tie pasta
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
salt and pepper
Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add yellow and red bell peppers, mushrooms, and onion to same skillet and sauté until crisp-tender, about 4 minutes.
Add minced garlic and crushed red pepper to skillet and sauté 2 or 3 minutes.
Add whipping cream and chicken stock. Simmer until sauce re-heats and thickens slightly, about 5 minutes.
Add basil and 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese to sauce, stirring to incorporate. Season sauce to taste with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low, simmer. Sauce will reduce and thicken.
Cook chicken:
Wash and drain chicken breasts. Pound until very thin, as thin or thinner then 1/4-inch thick (the thinner the chicken breasts the better).
Mix breadcrumbs, flour, and Parmesan cheese together. Place milk in dish for dipping.
Dip chicken in breadcrumb mixture and then in milk and then back in breadcrumbs.
Place in fry pan that the oil has been heated and fry at medium high temperature until golden, crisp, and cooked through. Add more oil as needed. Remove and drain chicken. Keep warm.
Meanwhile, cook bow-tie pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until tender but still firm to bite. Drain and return to pot. Add sauce and toss to coat.
Place pasta with sauce on plate, and top with chicken breast. Serve, passing additional Parmesan separately.
before my mom headed back home, i already asked her to make me two big dishes of 砵仔糕. she didn't put them in the 砵仔 but in a single big dish instead. now i already missed it but i was too lazy to learn coz my mom usually made it early in the morning before we woke up.
btw, i was in cupertino pretty often in the past week. besides for my son's group piano class, we went to the Chuck E Cheese couple times during the school break.
realized that there's a Macau restaurant nearby in that area. wonder if it's good. have u ever tried it??
seems to be a lot more chinese stuffs in cupertino now than 4 yrs ago when i still worked in that area.
I don't like the food of the Macau restaurant. This restaurant change from 四川 to 广東 to 星馬 to 澳門 now, when a restaurant keep changing the food, it means bad food to me. :lol:
We should get together next time when u ar in Cupertino.
原文章由 SY_Mom 於 9/5/07 09:07 AM 發表
yungah,
before my mom headed back home, i already asked her to make me two big dishes of 砵仔糕. she didn't put them in the 砵仔 but in a single big dish instead. now i already missed it but i was ...