Pasta night with Katy the Chicken Lady :) recipe #2 p.1

[al6517]

bigmike&nan :

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Katy : You act like your surprised to see me on a thread like this. The fact is they won't let me start my own cooking thread as the old wet Hen's that hang out on these forums ( not you ) LOL will get mad and burn their aprons, plus everybody knows all real chef's are men.
I pm'd you with the recipe........................ And I never give out recipe's............ but for you well............. I hope you enjoy it.

AL

Al you're pretty funny - I HOPE you are joking about the wet hens. Just share your stuff, if anyone has a problem with you or don't like your recipes they can look at other people's threads. I've been on other forums where some folks didn't get along, and then there'd be sit downs (gatherings) of folks from that forum and once those folks met each other in person they really liked those folks.

And yeah the best cooks are men, it's just the majority of the cooks in the world are women who have to cook for ungrateful and hungry kids and that's no fun, coming home from a hard day at the office - OR being stuck and home with more work than any office worker ever put out wives don't have energy or patience for cooking for pleasure. "MOM WHAT'S FOR DINNER, OH I DON'T LIKE THAT !!!"

Not much pleasure in cooking for them.​

Sorry........... just having a little fun, don't mean nuthin by it. I may not allways be PC but anybody who knows me knows I am just funnin, because the BYC is 90% gal's and I am just pluggin for the guy's every now and then.
I wouldn't know my way around the Kitchen if it weren't for the older ladies in my life who had the loving hands to show me the old way's.

AL

 

[Judy]

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I never keep anything but whole milk so that's what I use. Sometimes a recipe needs to be thickened a little when you replace heavy cream with milk.

 

[Truevalentine]

Nom, nom, nom, I made the mushroom pasta tonight (with a couple of my own tweeks) and it was super yummy! Even the three year olds gobbled it up! I only used half the pasta, froze half the sauce and it was STILL way too much for us... looking forward to the leftovers, and trying some more of your recipes. Thanks Katy!

 

[al6517]

Katy : Did you make the Ricotta yet................ ??.

AL

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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your welcome I'm really glad you liked it! I would suggest halving my recipes as most of them make the same amount

also I would not take offense at all if you posted your tweeks, it's the best way to improve

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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Not yet my dear, I will this week though. What do you use ricotta in other than stuffed shells and lasagna?

 

[al6517]

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Not yet my dear, I will this week though. What do you use ricotta in other than stuffed shells and lasagna?

Mannicotti, Caniloni, sweetend and creamed a bit it is the cornerstone of a great Desert Cannoli. and many other grrrreat dishes.

AL

 

[bigmike&nan]

If you can crank out a pie shell, have some Jack Daniels and raisins on hand you can make this. It's really great

Big's Ricotta Pie

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=166729

 

[Truevalentine]

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your welcome I'm really glad you liked it! I would suggest halving my recipes as most of them make the same amount

also I would not take offense at all if you posted your tweeks, it's the best way to improve

Yea, I thought about halving it... after I'd been to the grocery store and bought enough mushrooms and cheese for a full recipe , in the future I will definitly think ahead... a pound of pasta can feed me and four toddlers lunch, then feed me and two toddlers dinner and STILL result in a lot of leftovers to freeze or send to my dad's house when we are sick of it!

My tweeks:
1. I used crimini's because my store didn't have s.h.i.t.a.k.e.s and they are WAY cheaper than portobellos.
2. One of the reasons I chose the recipe was because I had heavy cream that I had over bought in my fridge and needed to use... BUT I had already used some of it, so I made up the difference in milk.
3. I added a little chopped onion that I sauteed with the mushrooms, because I sneak cooked onion into just about EVERYTHING to get that one more type of veggie into my daughter ;-).
4. I had a different shape of pasta open already so I used that instead of penne... though if I HAD opened some penne it would have been whole wheat... and I think my block of cheese was actually a little shy of what your recipe called for.

Nothing major, didn't want to mess too much with a recipe that I hadn't actually tried before. I was actually afraid that the kids wouldn't like it because of the gorgonzola, but it doesn't come through all that strongly. I'd probably be happy with it coming through a little more in the future actually.

I love to try new recipes and can't wait to try more of yours after I finish with my detox I just started.

 

[al6517]

Sorry, I edited it out.