Sunday Dinner - March 14 2010 (Pi Day)

Today, I had one of those days in the kitchen where you're jsut fighting a losing battle. I burned my first batch of roux flour, dirting one pot. Then had to change from the 2nd pot to a 3rd, larger one. Not enough rice for dinner. I didn't pay attention to the amount of spice I was adding and the final product was bland.

But cooking, as in running you learn to adapt. I started a second roux. I moved the sauce to a larger stock pot. I added caynne to the leftover sauce. You recover from an injury. You get over the disapointment of a bad race.

Chicken Sauce Piquante
Ingredients
6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (you can use turkey, sausage, tasso or any boneless meat)
1 cup roux flour
2 tbsp olive oil
6oz tomato paste
1 lg onion, chopped
3 celery rib, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, diced
1 cup diced tomatoes
2 cups pureed tomatoes
1 qrt chicken stock
salt, to taste
black pepper, to taste
cayenne pepper, to taste
1/2 tsp oregano
2 tbsps Worcestershire Sauce

Directions
In a bowl, stir roux flour into chicken stock. Set aside.

Season chicken breats with salt & pepper. Heat up your George Forman. (When's the last time you used your George.) Cook chicken until golden brown.

In a heavy bottom pot, heat oil over med-high heat. Add onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic. Cook for 5mins. (I used a pre-chopped mix today.)

Add tomato paste, tomatoes and chicken stock/roux mixture. Blend well into the vegetable mixture, bring to a rolling boil and reduce to simmer.

Add chicken, salt, black pepper, cayenne, oregano and Worcestershire. Stir well. Cook for 45mins.

Usually, sauce piquant is served over rice but I didn't have enough for dinner. So I substitued pasta.

Happy Pi Day

Today is March 14th (3/14) or Pi day and when you have a family of engineer dorks, you end up with silly things like an apple pie with Π cut in the top crust.











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