Journal

2010 - Week 29 Cooking Results

Fettuccine with Creamy Tomato and Sausage Sauce

 This recipe was ok, though I did like the rigatoni from two weeks ago better, but the big stand out here was the Mild Italian Sausage that it called for.  Being that they had a meat sale last week at Gateway, I got a pound of the Italian Sausage from there.  I thought it was quite good.  The fennel seeds that it had in there really added to the flavor profile.  So I may have to get that again.  Though I don't think it'll replace the place in my heart that the Graziano's Hot Italian Sausage has.

Hot Picadillo Sandwiches

 Why Not just call this Sloppy Joe's?  Or a fanciful one.  I do like the raisins and the mixture.  It did have a nice balanced taste.  It was a nice, relatively simple dinner, overall.  Add a little cheese to the sandwich, some arugula, and a little mustard and you got a delightful little meal.

Roast Chicken Enchiladas (kinda based on this, but not really)

Ok, not at all based on that recipe that I linked too.  So I roast the chicken, like I normally have been, let it cool took off the chicken and shredded it a bit, and then started to soak it in the Juan O'Sullivans Enchilada Sauce.  I then took some tamatillos, and a few kinds of peppers that I got from Juan O'Sullivans,
some farmer's market tomatoes and an onion or so, and start to saute them in a bit of oil, just to get a good chunk of the water to get out of the ingrediants.  So then I took the ingrediants that I had cooked in a pan.  I used a little more of the enchilada sauce and blended everything to a nice and small chunked salsa and added that in to the chicken.  Apprently I didn't cook them down long enough, because it was still a bit too wet, so I added some cheese to it to try to get it all to bind together well, and it looked like it would do well enough.  So I put everything together, added some sauce and pepper jack on top and cooked them for a while in a covered pan, then a while longer without a cover.  The taste was pretty good, but they were too wet.  Fall apart wet, not like they should be.  So I suppose I should've cooked it a bit longer uncovered, though by the time we ate it was getting a bit late, so we ate it perhaps a bit early.

Roast Chicken Salad

It was very hot and humid when I made this.  It made for a good break from a hot meal.

Tagliatelle with Fresh Corn Pesto

 This was surprisingly easy and surprisingly good.  It made for a good end of the week.