PW's Chicken Spaghetti - again!

Melanie is on vacation this week, visiting her friend in Atlanta, so she picked a recipe from the PW Cookbook that she'd already made before and had taken photos of. It just so happened that I had already made the dish too. It was the very first recipe I tried when I first got my cookbook - Chicken Spaghetti. This is posted on my 'cooking blog' but I'm reposting the pictures (and verdict) here so you don't have to click on over there.

I made this my first recipe to try because I was intrigued that this is the only 'casserole' Marlboro Man will eat - I wondered how good it could really be? You can find the recipe HERE on Ree's cooking site.

(and just for the record, you'll find much nicer photos at that link too)... but here's a few of mine: some of the ingredients...

everything is basically thrown together...

poured in to a dish with more cheese added on top... and popped in to the oven,

and here it is right out of the oven...

and I tried my best to get a good close up 'yummy' shot...

Verdict: Overall it is very tasty, the amounts of seasoning and liquid were fine for me, I didn't have to add any more. I did make a couple of changes, first being I didn't have a fryer chicken, I used just two large chicken breasts that I had defrosted the day before, I boiled these in water and then just shredded them. I didn't use the 'stock' from this but opened a can of chicken broth and used that instead.

The only thing I would change if I made this again (and I'm sure I will, it makes a great easy dish and would be nice with a crispy green salad and fresh bread) is I would saute the onion and bell pepper. PW doesn't say to do so, but to me the onion just wasn't cooked enough after 45 minutes, and I found the onion a little too over-powering. In saying that, we had more of this heated up a day or so later and the onion taste was a little less strong then, but I'd still like to cook them first next time just to taste the difference. A little more cheese wouldn't come amiss either!

After reposting this recipe I feel like actually making this casserole again this week! I just defrosted chicken breasts today to use this week so I may take two of them tomorrow and throw this thing together again ;-) I deliberately have a jar of pimentos in the pantry for this very recipe. If you're wondering what to make for dinner one night this week, give this a try.

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