(hey, I have to name it something)
- Flip through the 'What's Cooking' magazine to find something easy to make for supper
- Find a dish that boasts being 'delicious' and 'fabulous' and (the clincher) 'super easy'
- Realize that you don't have any chicken broth, asparagus, brick cream cheese, or linguine, which are about 99% of the ingredients
- Decide that a three hour round-trip to Thunder Bay (the nearest supermarket) would eliminate the all-important 'super easy' part
- Decide to innovate instead (you can skip these first five steps if you are an organized person and have all the right ingredients)
- Thaw some frozen chicken thighs or legs (I used eight)
- Roll them in a coating of flour, mixed with onion powder, garlic powder, basil, and enough curry powder to make the flour pale yellow
- Fry them in oil at moderate heat until they are brown on all sides (you may have to turn the heat down and cover them partway through to make sure they are fully cooked)
- Put the thighs on a cookie sheet and into a warm oven (about 250) because the rest of the dish isn't ready, you don't want them to get cold, and you're paranoid about raw chicken
- Pour most of the oil out of the skillet
- Add about a cup and a half of milk to the skillet and whisk in about a tablespoon of the leftover coating while the milk is still cold
- Add some more spices to taste. I like a light curry flavour for this dish.
- Slowly heat the milk until it boils and starts to thicken
- Add some broccoli and mushrooms
- Add a couple tablespoons of soft cream cheese that you found in the back of the fridge
- Hope your spouse didn't have special plans for that cream cheese
- (note: you can omit step 14 if you don't have a spouse, or if your spouse never has plans for things hidden in the back of the fridge)
- Stir in the cream cheese until it is all melted. If the sauce isn't thick enough, add more cream cheese
- Don't listen to those stuck-in-a-box folks that say curry and cream cheese don't go together
- Whisk the sauce, and turn the heat to very low
- About ten steps ago you should have started cooking some noodles. I used soba (because I like soba and didn't have three hours to go buy linguine)
- Place the cooked noodles (enough for four people) on a nice, white porcelain platter
- Place the chicken thighs around the outside edge of the platter (symbolizing places like Baker Lake and Upsala that are on the peripheral edge of the universe)
- Really, really wish you had some asparagus
- Slice some red peppers into strips and arrange them nicely around the edge, in between the chicken
- Pour the broccoli and mushroom sauce over the soba (it's okay if you get a little on the chicken)
- Serve it to your now-ravenously hungry family (who won't care that you aren't a real chef as long as the chicken isn't raw inside)
You can find the real, honest-to-goodness recipe (probably invented by an honest-to-goodness chef) at Kraft Canada website. No, it doesn't look anything like my concoction. I told you I lacked 99% of the ingredients.
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