Chicken Tetrazzini, It's Rainbow!

Oh my goodness gracious, would you look at that? That is chicken tetrazzini. I bet you're looking at those green things and thinking "who puts avocados in chicken tetrazzini??" well, we didn't. We just colored the chicken pretty colors. We didn't make it completely the way that the recipe book said, instead we made it the way my daddy always made it. Because he's awesome.


Ingredients:(BLUE...(just a suggestion)...) Chicken, Wagon Wheel Noodles, 2 Red Peppers, BUTTER, Flour, Chicken Broth, Sherry, Whipping Cream, Tabasco Sauce, Parmesan Cheese, Bread Crumbs. (do you like my table? my messy, messy table. I like my messy table.)


First were going to cook the pasta in boiling water. This is where we color the pasta (the wagon wheel pasta, which is the best pasta ever and waaay too hard to find. I suppose you could use any type of pasta for this. The original recipe calls for spaghetti or something. But thats lame. Wagon Wheels are the way to go.)


You can BUTTER your water if you like. We did.


Aren't they pretty?

Now were gonna boil the chicken. Because it has to be cooked, ya know?


We're gonna color the chicken blue. With food coloring.




Now, lets melt the butter (don't be like me, use a whisk) stir in the flour


Then the chicken broth...

ooh boy this is getting exciting..now we get to color the sauce green...puke green preferably because that is the prettiest color...of course that is just my opinion...you may color your sauce anyway you'd like..

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

now you want to add some eink plephants..i mean pink elephants...a.k.a.sherry (a.k.a. alcomahols...)
Cut the B-E-A-utiful blue chicken...it looks like pretty pretty play dough
Peppers...you can get your Christmas color scheme going...

BUTTER the pan that the ingredients will be going into

pour the violet wagon wheels into the BUTTERED dish...

oy with the poodles already..now add some yummy green sauce...

mix it all up...watch the colors swirl into what i consider a piece of art!

sprinkle some jewish bread (matzo meal...or any kind of bread crumbs we aren't into discrimination..based on religion anyway..)

Yummy Yummy! You should be anticipating some deliciousness soon...

After cooking this in the oven for about fifteen minutes it shall be ready to serve!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!

If your plate emulates this one then yahoo for you because you won an entire chicken dinner!

Chicken Tetrazzini- This recipe is adapted (alot) from the book Beard on Pasta. I like it better this way

About 6 chicken breast halves

2 sweet red peppers

6 tablespoons butter

6 tablespoons flour

2 1/2 cups chicken broth

1 cup heavy cream

Salt and pepper

1/4 teaspoon tabasco

1/2 cup sherry

About 1 pound wagon wheels (as much of it as will fit in your baking dish)

Bread crumbs

Parmesan cheese

Cook chicken. Chop. Dice Peppers. Melt butter, whisk in flour, add chicken broth when it is cooked and bubbling, continuing to stir until the sauce is thickened. Add cream, season with salt and pepper. Add the tabasco and sherry. Add chicken and peppers to the sauce. Hold over low heat while you cook and drain the pasta. Fill your baking dish about halfway full with the pasta, and then add the sauce. Stir together, and top with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese, and dot with butter. Put it into a 475 degree oven until the top is all pretty and nice. Then eat it. With a fork, preferably, though you could use a spoon, or your hands if that is how you like to eat your food.

Rainbow Muffins, They're Chocolate Chip!

Do you see that muffin? Do you? That muffin is filled with chocolate chips and sprinkled with some delicious colors. Colors make anything taste good. It certainly makes these muffins delicious. After you make the basic muffin recipe, you could really add anything you like, if you are crazy enough not to want to fill them with delicious morsels of amazing chocolate! You could use blueberries, or walnuts, or porcupines, or the girl next door! Only not really, because that would be cannibalism. Oookay, so...lets get down to the business of making non cannibalistic food!

Les ingredients (the ingredients for any non fake french speakers): Flour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Powder, Milk, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Chocolate Chips

Of course, we need some food coloring as well! We have eight colors. Thats right. 8.

Firstly we throw all the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder)


Then you add the eggs, butter (its melted), sugar and vanilla

Then the chocolate chips...give it a little stir (just a little one)...

Dip a cookie in the remnants of the butter you melted....


and add some food coloring


Then put it into a muffin pan. You can use muffin cups or just spray the pan. Or you could butter it. Then (and this is important to their rainbow-ness) Put lots more food coloring on top!


Then you stick it in the oven, and out comes this! It camouflages in nicely with this potholder, no?

See, wasn't that quick and painless?
yes, it was, you don't even have to tell me how easy it was

Muffin Recipie (from the Joy of Cooking)
2 Cups Flour
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
2 Large Eggs
2/3 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Butter (melted)
1 tsp Vanilla

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add eggs, butter, milk, sugar and vanilla as well as any additional ingredients (choc. chips, blueberries, etc.) mix just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Batter should be lumpy. Divide into a muffin pan lined with muffin cups or sprayed with grease. Bake about 17 min, longer for fruit, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.