Calling all cooks

[kyzen]

Girlfriend is coming home, and I feel like surprising her with dinner. Unfortunately, there has been a city utilities van parked at the end of my driveway for the last hour, with no workers in sight, so I haven't been able to get out to the store.

Surely, I figure, I should have enough food here to make something tastey.

So, my fellow ATOT food lovers, help me out:

My Iron Chef Thursday ingredients:

Tons of spices
Tons of pastas
Frozen chicken breasts
1lb frozen beef (not bulk I'm afraid)
1 box roasted vegetable ritz crackers
3 cans tunafish
1 can tomato pasta sauce
Rice
various cheeses, soft and hard
half a dozen bagels
1 banana
Milk, flour, sugar, salt, butter, etc

Help me ATOT, you're my only hope!

 

[Zim Hosein]

10 minutes? Order a pizza! kyzen!

 

[kyzen]

Well I figure I have 10 minutes to start cooking if i'm to use any of the frozen foods; she won't be home for another 30-45 minutes

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

No veggies? Might as well order a pizza or make one!

 

[Terabyte]

spaghetti with beef ?

or spaghetti with chicken and cream sauce

 

[rezinn]

Defrost chicken breasts, pound thin, coat with milk (and egg if you have some), roll around in flour/salt/pepper, coat in egg/milk again, press into some smashed ritz crackers, pan fry. Serve with rice or pasta whatever the girlfriend prefers.

 

[spidey07]

OK, I'll try. Some kind of chicken pasta with a cream/tomato sauce (too bad you don't have cream). You've got great casserole fixins but with no veggies it would be tough.

1) thaw chicken in microwave, start water for pasta
2) make a blond rouge - butter in pan, melt butter, add flour, stir constant till flour/butter gets some what thick and blonde (add seasoning of your liking)...then slowly stir in milk stirring constantly to start a cream/bechemel sauce, bring to a simmer stirring constantly
3) slice chiken breast, toss on broiling pan and pretend your broiler is an upside down grill, or hell grill them if you like.
4) bechemel will start to thicken, add some grated hard cheese - watch your salt and taste because the cheese will add salt and also start to thicken it, cook for 5+ minutes, add tomato sauce, taste and season as needed.
5) pasta out, check thickness of your sauce, shouldn't need any more thickening/starch
6) pasta in bowl, top with sauce, arrange chicken, season as you like

 

[dbk]

Baked spaghetti with chicken and beef.

 

[kyzen]

Thanks for the input. I ground up the ritz crackers and some cheezits i found in a food processor, and will be breading + baking the chicken with that. And I'm following spyders advice on the pasta.

thanks folks

 

[Imported]

Thaw the chicken breasts. Use the ritz crackers (finely crushed), some parmesan if you have it, and some herbs as breading. If you have mustard, coat the chicken with it and dip the chicken in your breading. Pasta+sauce+herbs+brown some of the beef for the sauce.

I'd avoid the tuna, bananas..

Improv man!

Oh boo. Been said before! Oh well.

 

[randay]

throw it all in a blender and bake at 500 degrees for 3 hours.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: kyzen
Thanks for the input. I ground up the ritz crackers and some cheezits i found in a food processor, and will be breading + baking the chicken with that. And I'm following spyders advice on the pasta.

thanks folks

whoh there fella. I think I went for too complicated. Much better/quicker/easier suggestions than mine.

The pounding/breading the breasts with some pasta would work well and with less effort. You just need a sauce and it will be GREAT. Just watch the size of your breast, cutting them in half depending on thickness will help.

Just watch your heat with pounded breast medium/medium high at the most. If you had some capers or lemons add those after you flip them. Artichokes maybe?

 

[rezinn]

Originally posted by: randay
throw it all in a blender and bake at 500 degrees for 3 hours.

I tried this recipe just now but my blender stopped working after about 20 minutes.