Scalloped Chicken Hot dish

Hey guys! How you doing? Just so I let you know us Minnesotans Love our hot dishes! Haha!

Anyways,  what should I say about this recipe? The reason I chose to make it? Well if we take it like that then the reason I made this was for my coworker. He said the vegetarians are weird and should eat meat. Now I'm not a vegetarian. I'm more flexible then that. Thanks to last October I four that I really liked eating veggie. If you don't remember October is national Vegetarian/ Vegan month and I pledged to be a vegetarian and it was a success. I enjoyed it and couldn't help but keep close to a vegetarian diet... And then theirs my boyfriend. He never knew what a vegetarian ate until he met me, But I'm proud to say that he has liked most of my dished that I have made over the past half a year! Anyway, I decided to prove that I could eat meat and cook it, since I am a cook after all. So with nothing else to say until my rambles at the end of the page here's the recipe!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup margarine or butter. ( I used margarine.)

1 package PASTA RONI Shells and cheddar

2 cups frozen mixed veggies (I used corn, peas, beans, and carrots.)

2/3 cups milk

2 cups chopped cooked chicken

1/4 cup dry bread crumbs ( I used Italian style panko bread crumbs)


Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 Fahrenheit.

2. in a 3- quart saucepan, combine 2 1/4 cup water and 2 tablespoons of butter to a boil. Stir in pasta and frozen veggies. Bring that back to a boil and cook for about 12 minutes or until the water it almost completely absorbed.

3. Add the Pasta Roni seasoning packet, milk and chicken. Cook for another 3 minutes or until the sauce starts to thicken.

4. In a separate pan melt the remaining butter and toss with bread crumbs.

5. Place the chicken mixture into a 3 quart cooking dish and cover with the bread crumbs.

6. Cook in the oven for 10 minutes or until the breadcrumbs are golden brown and the sauce it
bubbly.

7. Let sit for a few minutes and enjoy!


Its Rambles Time:

First off let me just say don't make this recipe in the summer.... My gosh it made the apartment so hot and sticky!!! I almost started cooking in my skivvies!!! Please get that image out of your head. Haha! So as my apartment heated up my patience started to decline and here comes mistakes. First off I grabbed my almond milk instead of the actual milk, if my boyfriend wasn't there to stop me we could have had a disaster! My almond milk happens to be dark chocolate. Oops! So after that I tried to pay more attention but it was hard with my kitten on top of the kitchen cabinets. He has somehow gotten himself on top of the fridge and on top of the cabinets. Not okay but I wasn't going to let him come down and walk on a hot stove so to my luck he stayed there. When it was in the oven I wished I had put garlic in it. I love the smell of garlic and it would have tasted heavenly!!! But sadly I didn't. If anyone does please tell me how it is!!!! As for the taste well it actually tasted like an alfredo chicken pot pie. It was good don't get me wrong but something was missing and I'm convinced that, that thing is garlic and maybe some pepper! I think though the next time I make this I will make it in the winter and add garlic. Oh and my boyfriend really liked it! He said to put it in our recipe box, or on my blog! Haha! Sorry when I made this I decided to make it a winter recipe and I held it for a little while. So sorry if my rambles seemed weird with the whole summer thing. Again, please post pictures in the comments and tell me all about your changes if you make any! I would love to hear from you guys!

Ta Ta for Now,
Lil' Char