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PW\'s Chicken Asparagus Lasagna
Hello, everyone! This morning I'd like to share with you a recipe that, unlike Cindy McCain, I actually made my very own self and didn't rip off from a website: Chicken Asparagus Lasagna!
Here's what you need:
1 13 x 9 x 2 inch cake pan
Six lasagna noodles
8 oz chicken breast, thinly sliced and cut into 1-inch segments
2 green onions, with stalks
2 celery stalks
3 to 4 garlic cloves, mashed or sliced
8 oz asparagus
15 oz ricotta cheese
3 cups (12 oz) shredded mozzarella cheese
2 eggs
2 oz chevre (optional)
A few tablespoons of olive oil
Boil up the lasagna noodles (with a touch of olive oil in the water to keep them from sticking) until they are fully cooked; while they're bubbling away, mash up the garlic and sauté with the chicken in a hot frying pan with a little olive oil, just enough to coat the inside of the pan. Set chicken aside and drain noodles, then lay noodles flat or fold gently in half and set aside (again, a little olive oil helps to prevent sticking). Blanch asparagus in microwave for a minute, then chop into half-inch segments. Chop green onions and celery into quarter-inch segments.
Mix ricotta, eggs and two of the three cups of mozzarella. Place a teaspoon of olive oil in the cake pan, then put two of the cooked lasagna noodles in the pan. Next, put in a thin layer of the chevre (if you're using it), then half each of the ricotta-mozzarella mixture, the chicken, the onions, and then finally the celery. Slap on the middle two lasagna noodles and repeat the previous step with the rest of the ricotta mixture, chicken, onions and celery. Cover with the last two noodles, then cover the pan with tinfoil and put in a 350F oven for 45 minutes. Pull out, remove the tinfoil, cover the top noodles with the last cup of mozzarella, and put back in the oven minus tinfoil for another ten to fifteen minutes. Let stand ten minutes before cutting and serving. There should be enough for eight great big pieces, and just one piece with a side dish and salad is great plenty for even the hungriest person.
Enjoy! Yes, it's got fat to beat the band. It's still good!
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Gonna make it tonight for my vegetable lover and significant other. The kids hopefully will eat it as well*g*
New York Times (h/t Atrios):
Really? Our justification for staying in Iraq, for losing over 4000 lives and counting, is to keep Al Qaeda from having a PR victory?
That’s the argument they want to make?
That’s insane.
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Good morning, PW. Thanx for the new recipe. A couple of low fat substitutions in the cheese & eggs dept. & even the high fat conscious can enjoy as well. What’s a good substitute for chevre, I wonder; have to think about that one…
Good morning PW.
Hello, is this thing on?
If you are still here, I have been meaning to ask you if you live within 100 miles of Dubuque, Iowa? The reason I am asking is because a “Drinking Liberally” get together might be in order for this area if indeed you are nearby.
There are a few other FDL commenters I believe, who are also in the area.
How come the press doesn’t call Cindy an elitist for not cooking didn’t Hilary get nailed for her healthy non lard cookies.
While Quaker Oats had a common man lard cookie recipe oh wait Bush 2 has made comments about his mom defrosting food and never cooking a homemade meal.
George of course will never ask McCain such questions.
no
evil dr puma is in iowa, though i don’t know which city.
NOM nom nom! Thank you PW. I’m clipping this recipe.
Triggers fond memories of the huge asparagus patch on the ol’ newdealfarm where i grew up.
PW,
Thank you for the recipe. All of the ingredients are favorites and I plan to share this recipe with my wife. We love to cook together so this will be special.
Just what IS Chevre anyways????
Cat In Seattle
Yum! I want some for breakfast right now… Thanks for sharing, PW.
Thank you! I have always wanted to attend one of these and meet fellow FDL’ers, but they always seem to be hundreds of miles away.
I am in West Union(the driftless zone) I would love to get together and am 85 miles away. Email me at amyfenclATmsn.com
ThingsComeUndone:
Because there’s a double standard, one for the Democrats, another for the Republicans. And we have to agitate and protest and push back to get rid of it.
As for *why* there’s a double standard, I thought Charlie Gibson made that perfectly clear at the last Democratic debate: because the Republicans will lower, and keep low, the capital gains tax.
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That recipe is making me hungry, but I’m feeling a little peckish today. So, I’ll just drool in my imagination.
And, what the heck is chevre?
Highlight recipe. Print Selection. Take immediately to truck and place in grocery bag. Thanks PW, sounds wonderful. Love asparagus and cheese. Saves my lazy brain from thinking about what to make for the coming week. I’ll freeze what I don’t eat tonight and have a piece every few days. Not much of a carnivore but a little chikn now and then….
Off to the whole foods store then the hardware store to buy a hoe. Haven’t hoed a plot of land since I was a kid. This is gonna be interesting.
Cool! Let me know what they think of it.
That’s what I like about it: It’s not meat-intensive. In fact, you could probably skip the chicken if you wanted, or replace it with something else.
Peckish or not, I looked it up.
The French call fresh goat cheese “Chevre.” We call ours Capri. It is relatively simple to make. In short, we add a culture and a (vegetable based) curdling agent to fresh goat milk and allow the curd (solids) to separate from the whey (liquid), and then add salt to the curd. The whole process takes just four days. It is delightfully smoooth and distinctively tangy. Whether called Chevre or Capri, it is farm fresh and delicious.
Goat cheese. Fatty & delicious. If I ate 2 ozs. of it, I’d have to jog an extra mile per ounce.
What would you substitute for the chicken?
Good morning! Did Christy leave some coffee in the pot, or shall I make some more?
a soft, mild goat cheese.
I just googled chevre …it is a cheese …looks kinda like ricotta, but made of goat’s milk, right?
That’s alotta cheese. And, I love cheese.
If I ever develop a lactose intolerance, I’ll be in big trouble.
To TexBetsy: Tofu and crushed walnuts?
For a non-meat recipe? Probably tofu, or sliced water chestnuts. If I wanted to make a meat sub, turkey would work. Or maybe even sliced ham… hmmm…
Comes in different consistencies. Some is sliceable. It’s delish, but loaded w/fat, unfortunately.
I’m thinking to substitute a low fat Boursin for it maybe…
Ooooh, good idea, Marie!
Coffee and pastry.
Ha, ha, ha. You’re being funny.
Looks like it is pretty fatty all right …but MMMMMM! What could one substitute for this cheese that would be as good as well as less expensive? I am from the Pacific Northwest and it USED to be fads, clothes, food and things from the East Coast took two years to get here. Now things happen faster, but it took me several years to discover brie cheese in the 1980’s (and become instantly addicted) and since I am low income and not of the “grey poupon” crowd, well I am just ignorant .
Maybe much like when my brother in law, who does not even LIKE seafood, told me crab was just so much better with butter when I was perfectly happy to eat crab without it before then, I am better off ignorant, right? LOL!
Cat In Seattle
Marie: do you like the low fat mexican cheese we have in so many markets here in LA? I do.
It’s got cheese in it. They’ll eat it. :-) Tell ‘em it’s fancy macaroni and cheese — which it is, in a sense.
Oh why oh why is it snowing?!?!
It would go with any number of wines, too.
How about additional veggies (i.e. spinach) instead of chicken? leeks might also be nice as well…hmmmmmm
Bom dia, pups
Just. Because. Don’t worry, the snow is falling on warm ground. It will make the flowers bloom next week!
I’ll try it & let you know the results. Hadn’t thought of water chestnuts for the meat- sounds interesting. Portobello caps/slices might work well, too.
Demi- I love them & they’re available just about everywhere. Trader Joe’s had a good selection.
That would work! Spinach lasagna with carrots, julienned or just diced. Nom nom nom!
I use zucchini in almost every baked meal these days. Hard to imagine why it wouldn’t work here.
Great way to deal with zucchini!
That looks wicked good. Thanks for the recipe PW.
Here’s a lasagna recipe that’s killer:
Brown 1 lb Mild Italian Sausage and drain.
Add 1 clove minced garlic, 1 Tbs. basil, 1 lb can of tomatoes, 1 12 oz. can tomato paste.
Simmer the above for 30 minutes while preparing cheese mix:
3c creamy cottage cheese, 1 pkg frozen spinach (drained), 1/2 c. fresh parmesan cheese, 2 beaten eggs, 1 T. pepper, 1 lb. mozzarella cheese while cooking 10 pkg noodles.
Arrange noodles, cheese mix, and meat sauce in 19×9x2 pan in two layers. Cook at 375 about 35 minutes uncovered. Let sit 5 minutes B4 cutting.
The meat sauce will appear to be dry, but don’t add liquids. Also, don’t scrimp on the pepper!
Why do country folks lock their cars up at night?
So strangers don’t come and stuff them full of zucchini.
Love the Fiestaware, it really shows off the delicious looking food.
Ba da bing! Rim shot.
Where do you live? We still have snow on the ground here (VT) but it is also going to be 70 degrees today. May very well going skiing tomorrow - last time till November I’m thinking.
I use that cheese for a substitute for ricotta or feta. Also, in sandwiches and salads.
Am going straight to the market, after I get dressed. There’s a Vallarta real close, but next time I’m at Trader Joe’s, I’ll check out their stock.
Ha!
Loo Hoo…judging by that recipe…you ain’t goin’ to heaven, Sweety.
Our friend peanut butter sent me a care package from trader joe’s this winter. My favorite snack foods!
The kids are pleased with it anyway…
I should probably take it as a sign from above to bake something!
OT- except for as it relates to food… …remember the concerns of honeybees mysteriously dying, well now it is happening where I live too!
Local beekeepers don’t anticipate being ready for pollination orders next month.
I’m going to try this lasagna, PW. I love asparagus.
How did you read my mind through the toobz? *g*
I’m here in the forests of the pacific NW. So much for my daughter’s softball practice this morning!
O/T-
Anyone see “Atonement”? We rented it last night (I was gonna get “Juno” it it was all out).
Hey, I didn’t claim it was healthy, just delish! Serve it with a salad, and it makes you feel better. (But don’t simmer lots of garlic in butter for the garlic bread to toast!)
Oh, you can’t get to heaven,
(oh, you can’t get to heaven)
With sausage in your tummy,
(with sausage in your tummy)
‘Cause with sausage in you tummy…
Whaaaaaaa?
ROFL!! How’re you this mornin’?
Down here it would be avocados. When the backyard trees bear fruit, they really bear, as in sacks o’ avocados by the front door for neighbors who drop by.
Sounds nice.
LOL! (Want an avocado with that?)
Not sure how to discuss a recipe- sounds good though.
Fiestaware is the best thing for food photography. Plus it’s union-made in the USA!
I woke up feeling a little yucky, but am feeling better now.
Must be the goat cheese. That, and the exedr*n and chamomile tea.
You?
Didn’t see the movie but read the book a couple years ago. You could not have wrestled that book out of my hands. Gripping story.
Ian McEwan is a terrific writer. I loved Saturday, one of his most recent. I didn’t care for the one after that so much - On Cheswick Beach (or something like that).
Reminds me that I need to get up to the farmers’ market this morning and grab some cara cara oranges, fiji apples and some odds and ends for the week. Hmmm someone was selling jackfruit (durian) last week, I hope they are back this week
I’m watching/listening to CSpan Book tv and the discussion is on the civil war. Author just mentioned the war campaigns.
Ah, interesting. Is that why the political “ones” are so bloody? I hadn’t associated those words before.
Has anyone noticed that Clusterfuck has become a persona non grata lately..
For the most part, no one mentions him. When he IS mentioned, even by conservatives, it’s as an example of how to fuck things up..
Poor bastard, almost feel sorry for him—–NAW!
Ah gotta get ta the store an buy me some more Lard and Ice Cream.
Hey Twisted, where’ve you been lately?
Naw. Nothing can penetrate that frat boy attitude. He thinks he’s cock of the walk even as he walks out on the tarmac for the pope!
Now THAT’s a breakfast of champions!
I thought the movie was very nicely done. Mrs. “Chick Flick” really dug it as well.
And Keira Knightly, IMO, has the sexiest teeth in the movie business
And he rek-ah-nizes an “awesome speech” when he hears one.
It’s true—he thinks he’s a fuckin HERO..
Great piece in WaPo about his crowin over the success of his plan to reduce the rate of increase in carbon emmissions….Writer notes that if he had a similar success in a weight loss program, he’d currently weigh five hundred pounds and growing….
Maybe the guy takes good drugs.
And Keira Knightly, IMO, has the sexiest teeth in the movie business
How do I say it? Whatever floats your boat.
Some people are even impressed by Cock o’The Walk. (blech)
Wait- maybe the oped on Clusterfuck was at the NYT- can’t remember right now.
Saw that Gail had it in the NYT, rwcole, was there one in WaPo too?
I love Gail Collins.
This one was in NYT this morning:
The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday.
BobbyG:
There’s really something quite frightening about that description….
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Food photography is a craft of it’s own. I interviewed in another life to be a photographer’s assistant for a cookbook. I was amazed at the intricate details that the stylists had to consider.
All the better about Fiestaware. Every meal in my house is served on it. I didn’t know it was a union shop.
Hoo–Yeah- that’s the one. Funny as hell!!! And symptomatic of the guy’s disease.
I just skipped around the op/eds this morning and noticed that those who weren’t about the primary from hell were mostly about Clusterfuck- and none of em had a nice word for the guy.
It’s like when a chicken makes a mistake of bleeding with it’s flock.
You know, I pondered and pondered a response to that statement.
You sorta summed it up.
The Preznit, recall, “believe[s] strongly in private medicine.”
Whre it concerns others, that is. He’ll take his lifetime taxpayer funded comprehensive care, thank you very much. He’s “entitled” to it.
It’ll be tight as a drummy
(be tight as a drummy)
Thank you for the recipe, PW–it looks glorious.
And for those who think fat is the problem, here is the answer: eat like the French do, and lose weight. There’s a book called The Fat Fallacy, by Dr. Will Clower.
Bets
Missed that one- ya mean the prez broke the law? I’m SHOCKED- SHOCKED I tell you.
The french smoke a lot and drink gallons of wine- that helps to digest the wine…they also don’t work much- don’t exercise to speak of- and live longer than we do…
I think I’m gonna throw out all the ” Healthy” books.
That works. :)
But, if there is a heaven (which I don’t happen to believe in) Loo Hoo would be at the front of the line to get in.
__________
Oh, yeah, right. Like His Exalted Yoonitary Presidentiaryness is gonna be bound by some friggin’ GAO finding. LOL.
Government accountability . . . nifty concept!
It’s all about stress.
Love to cook so am looking forward to trying the recipe. Sounds fresh and very springlike.
It’s true that I have never observed much STRESS among the french- except when someone’s wife is about to have an unplanned meeting with his girl friend.
Spent a few days in the country with an old french guy- he didn’t speak a word of english- and I spoke no french- but we had a very pleasant time getting roaring drunk on local wine and playin “bowling”. He must’ve been a hunred– smoked Galois.
The finding helps keep the rule in the courts until the next Administration drops it.
You sweetie!
I just know myself- if I still smoked, ate like the French, & didn’t jog, hike, & go to the gym I’d feel crappy, have high blood pressure like the rest of my relatives, & weigh 160 lbs. instead of 120.
IMO metabolism & personal health factors are, well, personal & individual. Always like book recommendations, though, & will certainly will have a look @ that book.
I’ve never SEEN a frenchman exercise- perhaps they do it in private.
One too many “wills” there, Marie. Time to unglue myself from the keyboard & go run the errands.
Read you all later.
Oh yea, we are so having this for dinner tonight! Asparagus - yummm
And someone mentioned crab - we’ll have that tomorrow night. (We like soy and seasoned rice vinegar for dipping the crab).
This is great - menu planning on the first cuppa
Prosciutto would be a good substitute for or addition to the chicken. Yumm, my mouth is watering.
Thanks for the recipe, PW.
I think I will make it tomorrow.
Oh, don’t be so ignorant, and generalise your prejudice that way…
When I’m in France, it’s soccer all the time, and, or, cycling a 100 miles a day.
The difference is the diet, more mediteranian with tons of fresh produce.
That kind of generalisation leaves me bitter to no end.
Sounds like a good recipe, Phoenix Woman. I’ve entered it into the Cujo Labs recipe bank.
Anyone wishing to skip the boiling the lasagna step can buy “oven ready” lasagna. Ronzoni makes it, among others. Just pull it out of the box and stick it in the lasagna dish. The moisture from the other ingredients turns it soft.
It’s a bad week for bitter
I’m attempting my first hollandaise tonight - any tips. As for the French exercising - it’s called walking. They have beautiful places to walk.
Pull out, remove the tinfoil,
you forgot the “reserve tinfoil for hats as needed” step
my mom taught me to use cold butter and low heat (to avoid ending up with scrambled eggs). but it’s been a while since i’ve made it.
cujo at 107–was just telling a friend, best veggie lasagna casserole i ever had, they used those noodles, and yellow squash and ricotta cheese whole basil leaves, other fresh herbs, left large……
was so simple,
wow, was it good!
From bitter to better…
You still remain an ignorant prejudiced hack.