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Recipe: Creamy Tomato Chicken

Keith Constable — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:18:43 +0000

I mixed this up for my picky eater. She doesn’t eat the zucchini, red pepper, or onion, though.

I hope you enjoy it. Also available as a PDF.

Creamy Tomato Chicken

Whole chicken breasts baked over noodles in a creamy tomato sauce.

Ingredients

2 servings (~100g) of elbow noodle pasta
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
10 3/4 oz cream of chicken soup
6 oz tomato paste
1 cup water
1/4 red pepper, diced
1/8 large sweet onion, diced
1 roma tomato, sliced
1 small zucchini, diced
1 teaspoon minced garlic
olive oil
dried basil

Directions

Preheat oven to 400°F. Hot! Hot! Hot!
Cook elbow noodles for half the time recommended by pasta’s packaging; should not stick to ceiling when ready.
Sautée onion, red pepper, and garlic in olive oil over medium heat until partially cooked and browned.
Meanwhile, mix chicken soup, tomato paste, and water in a medium-sized bowl; try not to spill, klutz.
Mix pasta, sautéed onion and red pepper, zucchini, and sauce in a small casserole dish.
Arrange raw chicken breasts over pasta; season with basil and top with tomato slices; lightly spoon sauce over chicken. I said, “lightly!”
Bake at 400°F for 25-30 minutes or until chicken reaches a safe internal temperature; don’t guess, use a thermo-meter.

An 8×8 inch casserole dish or a high-walled 10-inch oven-safe skillet works well.
Steps 2, 3, and 4 should be completed simultaneously, as if you have six arms.
For best results, remove from oven and stir pasta half way through cook time.
Recipe originally designed for thin chicken breasts approximately half-pound each. Thicker breasts may require more time in oven.

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Hidden Installer Bundles

Keith Constable — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:41:37 +0000

It bothers me when software vendors that write for OS X distribute their standard OS X installer package wrapped in a bundle that launches their own custom installer before opening the installer package. What is that little middleman executable really doing?

Twitter

Keith Constable — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:52:16 +0000

Twitter is tempting me. I resist on principle, though.

Respond, you bloody DNS!

Keith Constable — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:02:17 +0000

I find it amusing that I was able to find two DNS servers four to five hops outside Suddenlink’s network that respond faster than Suddenlink’s own recommended DNS servers. I consider this a far superior alternative to opting out of their “enhanced” DNS redirection “service.”

On a related note, is it ethical to use a third party’s DNS servers for recursive lookups without asking first?

RHCT is Rhetoric

Keith Constable — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:16:17 +0000

“RHCT” is an acronym for Red Hat Certified Technician, an IT industry certification that focuses on the client-side configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux computers. Try a search for “RHCT” on the Barnes & Noble website, see what it returns.

Clearly This Is…

Keith Constable — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:21:55 +0000

Whenever someone starts a sentence with “This is clearly…” the rest of the thought is “clearly” only clear to the speaker.

Power Saving?

Keith Constable — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:47:10 +0000

According to the corporate offices that oversee the retail copy center I work at, it is cheaper for us to leave our copiers in power save mode all night than it is to shut them off when we close the store.

Go figure.

Sorrow Eats Us All

Keith Constable — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:43:37 +0000

My mother, Elaine Gendron Constable, died unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 55.

Pandora’s Taste

Keith Constable — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:19:23 +0000

I find that Pandora plays better music if I create channels from songs rather than artists.

PostBits 0.1.0 alpha

Keith Constable — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:07:06 +0000

Fall semester is over. I’ve been working on PostBits since my last exam, and I have a nifty little zip file to show for it.

I present PostBits 0.1.0 Alpha. Please note the lack of positive digits in the version and the prominence of the word “Alpha.” This plugin is not complete, and it probably has some bugs. As it stands, it should be able to replace Cricket Moods, but do not run it on your live blog.

Things to note:

Does not import moods from Cricket Moods. I will write a separate plugin to do that later.
The plugin seems to work with WP 2.6, but the interface is designed for 2.7.
Currently, only one category is available. It has the ability to handle more, just not the interface to manage them.
There is no README—you’re on your own.

If you’d like to try it out and/or help help me ferret out any bugs, you can grab a zip file from the PostBits Google Code site. If you find any bugs or have any suggestions, please post them on the issue tracker. Please don’t e-mail me or post any blog comments about bugs you find.