JGE 27 – Garlicky Chicken Pasta

Good Day,

I was not in the mood to cook tonight, even though I knew that I should. I was not in the mood to go to a restaurant. My brain battled and settled. I opted to cook something quick, simple and easy.

Today I picked up my fresh produce from Urban Oasis. Included as a part of the pickup was a bunch of Arugula. In my freezer was half-a-pound of ground chicken. So looking for the one-plus-one answer, I entered the words “chicken” and “arugula” into Google search.

I immediately spotted a link to Chatelaine.com for a recipe of “Garlicky chicken pasta”.  I clicked the linked and read the ingredients. Well… A simple list, but I had no linguine or orecchiette pasta, no garlic butter, no boneless chicken breasts, no cherry tomatoes. I did have three of the seven ingredients – arugula, salt, and pepper.

I substituted Rigatoni for the pasta.

I decided to chop some fresh garlic and add it to butter. The chicken I had was ground. And there were whole vine-ripe tomatoes in the kitchen. I diced one tomato.

And yes I proceeded to create my version of Garlicky Chicken Pasta.

A great, simple, quick, easy dinner. Hell, Jim’s Gotta Eat.

Enjoy,

Jim

JGE 24 - 50-Cloves of Garlic Soup

Good Day,

How did I start on this concoction that I wanted to try and eat? I have been fighting with, and diagnosed with having the flu, and plain turkey and plain toast and antibiotics is boring. Boring... especially if you're a person like myself who still likes to eat no matter how I feel.

Doing a Google search I searched on the phrase "Foods that are good for one with the flu?"  It turns out that there are over 116,000,000 hits provided by Google. My blurred vision immediately connected with a link to "Garlic Soup - 100x Stronger Than The Best Antibiotics On The Market". I found a recipe for the Garlic Soup and it asked for 50 cloves of garlic.  Better get out the parsley, the mouthwash, and the breath-saver gum.

First of all I have to say that I cheated. I used 51 cloves of garlic...and I realized that I was not going to peel and prep my gloves of garlic so I bought a container of already peeled garlic cloves.  All I had to do was chop off the little bit at sort of dead end.

And instead of describing and writing out all my steps are are some images that I did.  The ingredients included - 51 Cloves of Garlic, 2 tablespoons plus more of Olive Oil, 2 tablespoons of Butter, 2 Onions, 1 tablespoon of Fresh Thyme (no stem), 6 cups Chicken Broth, more fresh herbs - I used Marjoram, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, 3 cups of Stale Bread, and I cup Sour Cream.

My images -

At this point I used my immersion thing-a-ma-jig that can chop and blend, as best as possible all the ingredients in the pot together.

Then I had my Brew - 50+1 Cream of Garlic Soup...

In conjunction with the antibiotics, I've downed two bowls of soup since.

Does it work?  Hell if I know.  This wasn't a scientific experiment. I just wanted something different than plain turkey breast and dried toast with my Ginger Ale.

I feel much, much better. And Radar is always trying to figure out how to get any scraps that fall from the cutting board.

I love to eat,

Jim