Dinner YUM!

[eastofthemoon]

My Mom has gone off to visit both my aunt and to attend her Nursing reunion, so gullwhacker and I have the house to ourselves for the next two weeks.

For dinner, we thought we would experiment. Stu made dinner and I was in charge of dessert.

Stu tried making chicken carbonara for the first time and it was delicious! I would have eaten more if I had a bigger stomach. Luckily, there are leftovers for tomorrow.

For dessert, I thought I would try zenavvy recipe for a chocolate truffle pie. We haven't tried it yet because it needs to be refrigerated for a couple of hours, but the chocolate that I licked off the spoon tasted good. ^_~

Comments

[kokumi009.livejournal.com]

YUM! i love pasta! especially the white saue types XD
but i also love the traditional spaghetti.

[auriga]

That's pretty neat that you get two weeks for yourselves! It's definitely a good time to try stuff out. I think the closest thing I've had to chicken carbonara was a Quizno's sub of that flavour, but the real thing sounds tasty.

Ooh, I loved the chocolate truffle pie, and it's nice and easy. Enjoy! XD I posted the recipe for that crisp by the way, in case you're interested in that one.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pasta is good. The nice thing about pasta is that there are so many different types of it. ^_~

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

It is good. It has mushrooms, green onions, bacon and of course chicken. I can try to post the recipe for it later if you want.

Also, we just tried the pie with some ice cream. Man, it's good and it's very chocolatey! Yum!

[auriga]

That would be great if you could! I'd like to try it when I'm allowed indoor cooking again. XD;

Glad you like the pie. Ice cream is perfect for something like that. Come to think of it, I bet mint ice cream would be really tasty with the pie. ^^

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Hmm...and I do happen to also have mint chocolate chip ice cream. *evil grin* We'll experiment and let you know. ^_~

[gullwhacker.livejournal.com]

Yup! Here's the basics.

In a skillet, fry up around half a dozen strips of bacon.
Remove bacon, paper towel off the grease, crumble it up.
In the grease left in the pan - probably just a bit - sautee 1 clove garlic (diced), 1 cup sliced mushrooms, 2-3 green onions (sliced), and 2 chicken breasts (sliced). Once cooked, put aside.
In a saucepan, melt 2 tbsp butter, and whisk in 2 tbsp flour. Stir in about 1 1/3 cup of cereal cream or half-and-half. Cook until it's thickening up.
Add 1/3 cup grated parmesan, the chicken-mushroom stuff, and the bacon. Optionally, throw in some frozen peas here. Heat it up while your pasta finishes cooking.
Makes enough sauce for pasta for four - I used a box of farfalle (bowtie pasta), but I think it'll work with whatever.

Modify ingredients as you see fit! Heaven knows I did...

[auriga]

Excellent! Thanks for sharing. It certainly looks good since I like everything that goes into it. XD