Wow, been a while.

To start things off, I haven't posted in a while because I haven't cooked in a while. Nothing new anyway. I had a high school drama club revival and AMVs and all sorts of noise. But anyway. If I didn't mention this 68 recipe book by Pillsbury we got at Walmart, then I slipped up. Because now that I think about it, I made some bubble pizza from this as well, whatever that is. But anyway. It's monday, time for alchemy.

This is what they call Greek Chicken and Pasta. What I ended up making is not Greek in the least.

2 Cups uncooked penne pasta. No penne, used rotini.

1/4 cup butter or margarine. Easy. Though I admit, I eyeballed it.

1 large onion, chopped. Duh. There isn't a day when I have onions in the house.

1/4 cup AP flour. I should get more.

1 3/4 cups Progresso chicken broth. Didn't have it. Had leftovers of the White Wine and Herb stuff. As it turns out, it was chicken based. Hurray.

1 cup shredded feta cheese. Didn't have feta. Don't even like feta much. Used mozzarella.

3 cups chopped chicken. Wife brought these little bags of precooked rotisserie chicken on manager's special. I used two bags. Looked like it was enough.

1 jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained chopped. Ewww. I used a can of vegetable medley.

1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes in oil, drained, chopped. I wish. I used a can of diced.

1/3 cup sliced kalamata olives. What?

2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley. What?

Preheat oven to 350. Cook pasta. And oh crap, I forgot to grease my baking dish. Oh well, looks like it didn't need it. Melt butter, cook onion. Stir in flour, cook and stir half a minute. Add the broth, more stirring, heat until boiling. At this part in the game, I really noticed the flour thickening into a nice sauce. Behold the power of All Purpose. Remove from heat, stir in cheese. Gently stir in... everything else.

Bake for half an hour. Nom.

Personally, I like what I did. It's chunky, milk flavors all around, nothing bad. Wife added more cheese. She mentions if I had COMPLETELY BSed a chicken and pasta casserole, she would have liked it a lot better. Because I followed a recipe, it only gets a B-.