I was hungry for pasta....it's NOT on Mr. Amazing's list of 'approved' meals.
Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat ~ I chose a recipe from my Cooking Light Magazine and kind of based my supper on one of the recipes I had made before. As long as I can say, "here's the nutrition info and calorie count.....this is what I made.", then I don't get any argument.
I do not try to sabotage his eating plan but sometimes I want to fix what I want and I WANTED PASTA!
So, this is one of the 'One Pan Pasta' meals, where you cook the pasta in chicken stock/milk and don't drain it. The starch from the pasta becomes the 'creamy' part of the dish and it tastes much richer than it really is. I started with one slice of bacon, browned & reserved, cooked one chopped chicken breast & reserved, then cooked a few thinly sliced mushrooms and some thinly sliced onion & reserved. Oh, I added some fresh thyme to the chicken and some fresh tarragon to the mushrooms/onions. Then I deglazed the pan with some chicken stock, added an equal amount of milk and brought it to a boil.....added enough angel hair pasta for two and let it boil until tender. Then I stirred in some frozen peas (love the bright color they add) and when they were warmed through, added the chicken, bacon, mushrooms & onions and continued cooking until the peas were done and everything was heated through.
There wasn't much sauce left by the time everything was mixed together but it was nicely moist so I think I did OK on my 'guessing' of amounts.