Cookin' with Kris: Doctor's Office Pasta

Couple of months ago we were at the doctor's office, for a med check for Allyson to see if the new meds her doctor put her on were working. (Spoiler alert: They were.) While we were in the exam room waiting to be seen, Allyson found a cookbook for kids with food allergies. Flipping through it, Allyson found a recipe she wanted to try. And told me about several hours later, when I couldn't write it down or take a picture with my phone. (She does that a lot.) So I asked her to tell me what she remembered of it and I decided to try and re-create it.  Here's the recipe! We call it Doctor's Office Pasta because I let Allyson name it and that's where she saw the recipe.  Here go:

Doctor's Office Pasta

- 1 lb box your choice short-cut pasta 

- 1 jar alfredo sauce

- 1 bag (10 oz) frozen peas

- 3 chicken breasts, cut into small bites

- Olive oil

Get yourself a pot of water going. 

(Pictured: not-at-all-helpful picture of water not boiling.)

While that's going, cook the chicken in a little olive oil; set aside when finished.

Yum!

After the chicken is done, set it off to the side.

Get a small saucepan and heat the alfredo while you're waiting for the pasta water to come to a boil. Keep it on low the whole time so it doesn't scorch.

This is the kind I use. Classico Light Creamy Alfredo. Tastes enough like the terrible-for-you stuff to work for us!

When the water comes to a boil, cook your pasta. You can use any kind of short-cut pasta you want for this. Traditionally we used bowties. (Look at me. Traditionally. I've made this three times.)  But this time out, Allyson picked this kind:

("It looks like little lasagnas," said the child that doesn't like lasagna.)

Then you cook that until it's done. While that's going, cook the peas. The easiest kind is the kind you cook in the bag in the microwave, but I forgot to get a picture of it.  Anyway, when the peas are done, add them to the alfredo sauce and stir.

A-like so.

When the pasta is done, drain it. Scoop some out into a bowl and add the alfredo-pea mixture. That's Allyson's portion. Then add the chicken to the mix. Pile pasta on a plate and top with the alfredo-pea-chicken mixture. You can add grated Parmesan if you want.

There it is! Easy and delicious. We add the chicken later because Allyson only likes her chicken in three forms: nugget, strip, and (weirdly) school cafeteria patty. 

In non-cooking news, Ben is going out of town for two days next week for his annual work conference. It is also Allyson's spring break. Should be exciting.