Pesto Chicken and Pasta

  Name: Pesto Chicken and Pasta
  Cooked Date: Saturday, August 13, 2013

   *Cooked For The First time *

     I want to start cooking more, for several reasons. The first reason being that I love cooking and baking and I really want to make them a part of my life and my daily routine.  My baking  I will write about in my Life in the Oven blog; this blog is for my cooking. I bought several recipe books for baking and cooking, and one of them is on recipes that are easy and do not take too much time. I decided to begin with this simple Pesto Chicken and Pasta because it was a good place for me to start, since I already know how to make pasta. It was taking something I already knew how to cook-pasta- and taking it one step further-adding chicken.  I noticed as I was cooking it  that the recipe called for deli chicken, which meant that it called for chicken already cooked, and I had assumed that you cooked the chicken yourself. Still, I liked that mistake because it made it more of a home-cooked meal all the way around.
     I did make the mistake of turning on the wrong stove top to cook the pasta as I was cooking the chicken, but no real damage was done. The only damage was that the red stove top cover that I had put on the top that I had accidently turned on; it is now a little bit black, but no real damage.
    The actual meal was not burned, and while I probably could have cooked the pasta-bowtie- a little bit longer, it turned out really good. :) I loved it! I am not saying that it was high-class, restaurant good, but I thought it was good. I loved the taste, and I love pasta and chicken together.
  I'm thinking of trying my usual pasta with tomato spaghetti sauce but adding chicken to it, see how chicken and tomato spaghetti sauce go together. and olives of course :) I LOVE green olives, and they taste real good once cooked.
    This meal was simple, yet it was easy. It took me 30-45 minutes. This was longer than the time the book quoted, but since I cooked the chicken myself(cutting it, mixing it with the pesto basil, and then cooking it) it took me longer. Still, not bad.
      The price was also good. for two bottles of basil pesto, box of bowtie, and chicken breast, it was about $10(plus some other stuff that I bought, but this is a quote for the price of these items alone). From these items, I can make two batches, and get about 2 meals from each batch. For someone on a budget, looking to keep costs low, this is a good recipe.