Soups On!

Well, ok, not soup exactly. Actually, nothing like soup. But isn't that what 'they' always said in the old black and white movies when dinner was ready?

Maybe? Yes?

Oh well.

But can you at least tell by the lead in that I'm going to talk about food? If not then now you know. More specifically, I'm going to talk about the dinner I had last night. I prepared a meal from The Pioneer Woman's new cookbook.

When I first saw the recipe for her Chicken Spaghetti I knew I was going to make it. The ingredients just appealed to me. And making it even more tempting was the fact that *most* of the ingredients are items that I keep on hand anyway. I don't know about anyone else, but that makes recipes very appealing in my book.

The actual recipe calls for one fryer chicken. In my little, bitty humble kitchen I just simply do not have the room to debone a chicken, so I made a personal modification and boiled up chicken breasts and used can chicken broth instead. I'm all about quick and easy and that fits the bill for me.

Especially since my daughter was sick all weekend. So with that in mind, I did some prep work in advance for this dish. Still it took me longer to get everything assembled that I would have liked. I don't think that was the recipe's fault. In fact, I'm positive it was not. I have to say next time will be better. For one, I know what I'm doing with the recipe now and two, hopefully my daughter won't be so sick next time (or ever again, but I know that's just Mama wishful thinking. Sigh. )

So like I said, I had everything laid out that I was going to need, and I cooked the chicken and shredded it well in advance of meal time. Like I said earlier, one of the appeals of this recipe was the ease and on hand ingredients. That is on hand with one exception.

I don't know about you, but I don't keep diced pimentos (or pimiento) on hand. I don't really know what a pimento is. (Yes, the fact that sentence ends with is drives me crazy too!) So I looked up the word pimento and shame on me for not knowing that a pimento is a pepper. Well, now I know and you do too! Win for us all.

But hey, I've never cooked with the veggie before so that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it. Yep. That's right.

Anyway, I moved right on to preparing the meal and getting everything sliced and diced and then mixed together and boy does that make a lot of food. Not a bad thing. But when you're just looking at the ingredients, you don't really think this is a lot of food. At least I didn't.

But then finally, all the ingredients were mixed and ready to go. The smell was outstandingly yummy. It baked up nice and quick and finally, finally we were eating. The dish was amazing. Very flavorful and pretty colorful to boot. This is a new favorite in the family I think. And to make things even more yummy, there's leftovers for dinner tonight!