So, I'm absolutely in loooove with Kraft's Asian Toasted Sesame Anything dressing. I will seriously put it on just about anything. But I especially love it on chicken and long grain rice. But, since this whole project is all about trying new things, I decided to make my own version of Asian noodles(or something) using broccoli, chicken and thin spaghetti--oh, and my Asian Sesame dressing, duh.
So I made the pasta in a big ol' pot and meanwhile, let the sesame dressing, a tablespoon of Sriracha, some soy sauce and little chicken strips have a party on the stove. Well, umm....It looked and smelled delicious but all the brown everywhere made it EXTREMELY hard for my already bad eyes to determine if the chicken was cooked. Sooooo long story short, I over cooked the chicken(but didn't know it at the time). So, I drain the pasta and pour my Asian Sesame Toasted chicken concoction over it and mix it well. Or at least try to. I didn't make enough sauce(I only had like maybe 1/3 cup in the bottle left) and it never occurred to my newbie cooking mind to only cook HALF a pound of pasta instead of the whole friggin box! So, of course this occurs to me as I'm trying to mix the sauce with the pasta and half of it isn't getting coated and all of the chicken and broccoli has fallen to the bottom of the pot.
Anywho, since making this I've decided that my scoring scale for my creations will be as such(in order from best to worst rating):
DELISH!
GOOD!
OK.
TERRIBLE!
I feel like it's a big jump from OK to TERRIBLE, but I don't forsee myself making anything that's truly mediocre...I just see surprising succeses or epic fails, so I figured keeping the scoring system to 4 simple grades instead of like 9 was for the best.
Anywho, even though there was wayyyy too much pasta in the pot and the chicken was so overcooked I wasn't sure I could eat it, the actual flavor of the sauce was really really good and I'll (maybe) try this again and correct my mistakes.
OVERALL SCORE FOR THIS DISH: OK.



You are one awesome spirit. I love that you are making new things out of curiosity. This dish sounds fantastic and I think you should cook a dish next time we get together.
ReplyDeleteYou rock Moni.