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They are yellowed typewritten pages held together with two simple binder rings. Even the category tabs are typed.
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I thought that the Forward reminded me of all of us food bloggers.
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I've flipped through it's weathered pages once or twice but have never actually made anything from it until tonight.
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Chicken Tetrazzini adapted from You Asked For It Cookbook
Ingredients
8 oz spaghetti noodles
2 cups chicken, cooked and diced
4 Tbsp butter
6 Tbsp flour
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 cup half and half
1/2 tsp black pepper, ground
1/2 tsp red pepper, ground
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 cup mushrooms (we used jarred mushrooms, drained)
1/2 cup frozen peas
1/4 cup red bell pepper, diced
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
Instructions
Cook pasta according to directions.
Melt butter over medium high heat and whisk in flour until well blended. (I did mine in the same pan that I had used to cook the chicken to get all the leftover flavor.) Whisk in the broth 1/2 cup at a time. Then whisk in the half and half. Stir in the black pepper, red pepper, and salt.
Toss the warm pasta, chicken, mushrooms, peas, and red pepper together in a casserole dish. Pour the sauce over the pasta mixture.
Top with the bread crumbs and then the parmesan cheese. Bake in a 350f oven for 30 minutes.
Three out of four of us liked this creamy dish. Trevor (10) did not like it but he's a picky eater.
Vanity Plates
You know those vanity plates some people get for their cars? I got a "vanity plate" for my Big Green Egg. Yes, you are looking into an empty Big Green Egg but they don't really glow green like that.
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More on this to come after I've actually cooked on it. If you're wondering how I got this shot, I used this technique I played with on my photo blog.