Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Recipe experiment... yay!!!

So yesterday, I had the urge to make up a new recipe and take pictures along the way. So I looked for things in my fridge that I had, that I thought would go good together. I had asparagus, bacon (left over from our camping trip), frozen chicken, and cream cheese (left over from making Chicken Enchiladas) So I originally wanted to make asparagus with bacon wrapped around a few of them, but then decided to do them all together when I did a internet search for the ingredients, I found a few recipes for asparagus in chicken, wrapped in bacon. It sounded delicious, but I was missing some key ingredients so I decided to make it my own and forget about the recipe.
So my first step was to cook the asparagus in butter with fresh garlic, then after the asparagus got nice and green.


I pounded out the chicken, I put grated Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, and Italian Seasoning on the inside of the chicken, then the asparagus and then some cream cheese.


I rolled it all up and wrapped it in bacon. Put them on a tin foiled pan and bake it at 375 for about 40 minutes. then on broil for the bacon for about 2 minutes.


It turned out totally delicious and it wasn't really that hard, the best part was that most of the bacon grease melted onto the pan and not all over the chicken, so even though this recipe was probably a weight watchers nightmare, it didn't seem greasy at all!

This recipe didn't take that long and looked totally gourmet. :)


For a side I decided to use the rest of the bacon (only one piece) and the asparagus. So I chopped up the asparagus cooked it with the bacon and a little water to steam it. Then I cooked about a cup of Macaroni noodles. After the water had dissolved out of the asparagus, I added a can of corn and browned it, then I mixed the macaroni, asparagus, bacon, and corn in a bowl, I cooled it down in the freezer and added a little mozzarella and Parmesan cheese and some zesty Italian salad dressing. It went well with the bacon, asparagus chicken. So it made for a great meal and it was fun experimenting!

4 comments:

Dione said...

Yumm-o! That really looks delicious! You're a regular Pioneer Woman! (www.thepioneerwoman.com) Your husband must love you!

Nicole Marsh said...

You are so creative, I don't think I could have pulled that off! It looks delicious.

Where is Kitty? said...

It looks good. Now come make it for me.

Cherish said...

Yum! I totally hate asparagus but that meal looks so good.