For this dinner, we were tired from another busy soccer weekend so mom said she was just going to go to the grocery store and buy random food and that we (the kids) would have to figure it out. She came back with chicken, bacon, corn bread, arugula, kumato tomatoes & fresh green peas, and told us we had to make an appetizer and an entree using those ingredients and whatever else we could find in the kitchen. She also said that we had to make it fast because we were all hungry. (Now we know what its like when WE come home and demand to be fed pronto.) Kumato tomatoes are red-brown and taste delicious.
We came up with a plan: arugula salad with kumatos, bacon and goat cheese (that we had in the fridge) topped with corn bread croutons. To save time we cooked the bacon in the microwave. We made the croutons by cubing the corn bread, tossing with olive oil and broiling for a few minutes. For the salad dressing, we just made a simple lemon-olive oil dressing. We thought about adding the peas but they were so good raw, we just ate them as a snack.
Then for our main course, we cooked the chicken in olive oil, chicken broth and lemon juice, made a simple tomato sauce (red onions, grape tomatoes, olive oil and a little chicken broth) and cooked egg noodles. We also added a little cooked bacon and fresh basil as a garnish to the sauce. Dinner was ready in less than an hour and was delicious.
The mystery ingredients: corn bread, chicken, bacon, kumato tomatoes, fresh peas, egg noodles & arugula.
What to do with corn bread? Make corn bread croutons!
Salad: pre-croutons
Salad with croutons
Team work. Testing pasta (Max) and finishing the sauce (Alex)
Quick tomato sauce.
The full dinner.
