Saturday, 15 February 2014

Lemon Pasta with Cubes of Chicken

For tonight's meal you'll need:

A package of Boneless Chicken Breast
1 egg
Some Milk
Flour
Fresh Lemon Juice from 4 regular sized Lemons
A pound of the Pasta of your choosing (Cellentani work great)
Pecorino Roman Grated Cheese
Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper

We'll start with making the chicken.  After cleaning your chicken breasts cut them into 1inch cubes. In a small bowl mix the egg and some milk together and place chicken pieces in the mix.  On a plate dump what you feel is enough flour to coat the chicken pieces. Add some salt and pepper to taste, you can also add some of the Pecorino Romano Cheese. After mixing the flour and coating the chicken fry until golden brown. Set aside.

Lemon Sauce

In a large bowl, whisk 2/3 cups Olive Oil, 2/3 cups Romano Cheese, Lemon Juice, salt and pepper to taste. Set aside

Begin boiling your pasta. When pasta is cooked, before draining the water, save about 1 1/2 cups of pasta water.

Add pasta to lemon sauce, add the reserved pasta water and toss together.

I like adding the cooked chicken and about a handful of extra Romano cheese to the pasta before serving

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Mommy's Famous Meatloaf Recipe

Mommy's Famous Meatloaf

What you'll need:
1- 1 1/2lbs Chopped Meat
Bread Crumbs
Beef Broth envelopes
Eggs
Ketchup 
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls 

Preheat oven to 350

In a large bowl mix:
1 1/2 lbs of Chopped Meat (Chopped Turkey meat works great too)
1 cup of Bread crumbs
1 egg
1/4 cup of Ketchup
1 envelope of Beef broth
1/2 cup of Water

Mix well and move to baking pan, shape into a loaf. Bake for 45 minutes and then remove from oven and roll out crescent rolls and place over the top and bake again until the top of the crescent rolls are golden brown.  

You can make your own gravy but I actually don't. We have always used Heinz Homestyle Gravy (Savory Beef)   Heat gravy an serve.  

Goes amazingly perfect with Mashed Potatoes and Corn 😉.