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.