/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14105892]

>5 boneless/skinless chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
>1 jar of marinara
>1 can tomato sauce
>2 cups chicken broth
>1 yellow onion diced
>5 cloves garlic crushed and diced
>1 red bell pepper chopped
>a few chopped mushrooms
>1 tablespoon thyme
>1 tablespoon oregano
>1 tablespoon basil
>1 tablespoon hot chili flakes
>salt/pepper
>1/2 cup mozzarella
>1/2 cup parmesan
>4 cups penne

how did i do lads? rate please

[Anonymous No.14105927]

>>14105892
looks soupy and unappetizing

[Anonymous No.14105933]

>>14105927
i think i took the picture before the cheese went in, it's actually very thick

[Anonymous No.14107341]

bomp

[Anonymous No.14107513]

>>14105892
Amerifart slop/10

[Anonymous No.14107520]

>>14105892
>Jar of marinara

Half the fun of buying superior canned plum whole skinless tomatoes is the feeling of cursing them in your hands

[Anonymous No.14107535]

>>14105892
Too many fucking ingredients.
Too much cheese.
Mixing marinara with tomato sauce
Shitting over the tomato/marinara flavour with chicken broth.
Excessive garlic.
Chicken looks rubbery, should have been browned.

Give up.

[Anonymous No.14107589]

>>14105892
Way too many ingredients for no reason, and I say this as someone who loves spices. Things you can easily cut out:
>Chicken broth
>Thyme
>Chili flakes
>Mozzarrella
>Marinara
>Bell pepper
>Mushrooms
>Oregano and basil if the tomato sauce is already flavored
I also don't recommend adding garlic into tomato sauces unless they're roasted, since they're way too overpowering. You should also add some worcestershire sauce.

[Anonymous No.14107624]

>>14105892
>jar
Discarded

[Anonymous No.14107625]

>>14107589
>>14107535
Both of you are mostly full of shit, except I do like the idea of adding some worcestershire.

[Anonymous No.14107627]

>>14105892
Sloup 'o Shit.
Would not partake.
Serve with a gallon of bleach.

[Anonymous No.14107670]

>>14107625
Stop adding so much shit, faggot. What, did you want actual opinions or just praise?

[Anonymous No.14107681]

>>14107670
Dude if it were up to you I would have nothing but straight tomato sauce, chicken, and pasta.

Tastelet detected.

[Anonymous No.14107712]

>>14107681
You created a concoction of a shit ton of ingredients and ended up with something with no distinguishable flavor profile at all. It's a classic beginner mistake. For fuck sakes, you added marinara to something that already has tomato sauce, and chicken broth to something that already has chicken. Garlic is extremely alkaline and dampens the acidity of the tomato sauce, and the savoriness of the mushrooms can be better substituted with worcestershire. Simple food can actually taste good, you know?

[Anonymous No.14107777]

>>14107712
Tasted pretty good to me. Are you Italian by any chance?

[Anonymous No.14107788]

>>14107777
>my remanufactured puke tastes good to me
Yikes

[Anonymous No.14107795]

>>14107777
No, I'm not a fag.

[Anonymous No.14107810]

>>14107795
I agree that the chicken broth is probably unnecessary, but I like the peppers, mushrooms, and herbs/spices. Also I could probably cut down on the cheese.

[Anonymous No.14107811]

>>14107777
>duhh uhhh pee pee poo poo??

[Anonymous No.14107840]

>>14107810
Well it's a start. The bell peppers are really just unnecessary though. In a sauce that strong in flavors it'd be like adding lettuce.

[Anonymous No.14107843]

I got frozen chicken thighs to cook, pan only.
cooked them in bacon grease with broccoli last night which was okay except it took way longer than I wanted.
Turned out okay, but underseasoned.

wish I had a grill

[Anonymous No.14107844]

>>14105892
Why the fuck would you have slipped all that stupid shit together? You made some sort of tomato soup garbage pot. Why the fuck would you add chicken corn broth and thin the tomato sauce out? Why the fuck would you put cheese in that motherfucker? Why did you use so much Tyme when it is so much stronger than the rest? Why would you add all those together in the first place? Did you just feel the need to Chuck everything you had in the cabinet into the fucking pot? You could have just saved yourself time and money and bought Campbell's slop o shit minestrone soup nigga, fuckin hell.

[Anonymous No.14107854]

>>14105892
looks like a fine chili, anon

[Anonymous No.14107864]

>>14107840
Seriously? Bell peppers taste great, plus they are vegetables in what is meant to be a one-pot meal.

[Anonymous No.14107891]

Fuck I’d eat it no problem, but I agree that cheese is a little bit ott

[Anonymous No.14107935]

>>14107864
Just try making the entire recipe again without the chicken broth, garlic, and bell peppers and you'll immediately notice how much more powerful just the tomato flavor alone becomes.

[Anonymous No.14108020]

>>14107935
The garlic and bell peppers stay. I just personally like the peppers, but how can you make a pasta sauce without garlic? Isn't that against the rules?

[Anonymous No.14108033]

>>14105892
based, an OP that actually cooks

[Anonymous No.14108042]

>>14107935
>no garlic
fucking retard

[Anonymous No.14108085]

OP here, I am extremely gay btw

[Anonymous No.14108089]

>>14105892
Disgusting amerishart slop.

[Anonymous No.14108094]

>>14105892
>1 tablespoon thyme
>1 tablespoon oregano
>1 tablespoon basil
>1 tablespoon hot chili flakes
anon please

[Anonymous No.14108120]

>>14108085
Your mom knows otherwise, faggot.

[Anonymous No.14108122]

>>14108020
>>14108042
People add garlic to basically fucking everything without realizing how strong it is. It also just makes zero sense to add something bitter like garlic into tomato sauce, which is acidic. I'm not Italian, but there's a reason why they rarely ever use garlic in their pasta dishes unless it's the main flavor profile, especially tomato-based ones. And I'm talking about actual authentic Italian food, not made up American recipes.

[Anonymous No.14108135]

>>14108085
Glad you could finally come out to us good buddy

[Anonymous No.14108143]

>>14108122
People add garlic to everything because it makes everything taste better. This isn't a science project, it's about making food that tasted good.

[Anonymous No.14108147]

>>14108120
Please do not be homophobic, this is a LGBT positive community.

[Anonymous No.14108152]

>>14108143
I guess Italians were wrong about their food all along.

[Anonymous No.14108175]

>>14108152
I also never said I was trying to make authentic Italian food

[Anonymous No.14108185]

>>14108147
all lgbt communities are positive

[Anonymous No.14108197]

>>14105892
That looks pretty good to me. But more importantly does it taste good?

[Anonymous No.14108213]

>>14108197
nope

[Anonymous No.14108222]

>>14108175
I know that. I'm just making a point that garlic isn't good with tomato based sauces. The exception is if the sauce and garlic were kept separate, like with garlic bread and marinara dip. You could at least try it without the garlic and see for yourself. The flavor profile becomes completely different.

[Anonymous No.14108292]

>>14105892
Slop. You know ragoo is full of sugar right?

[Anonymous No.14108493]

>>14105892
Slop ‘o shit.

[Anonymous No.14108508]

>>14108292
I know. I figured the biggest complaint I would get here was about about using a jar of processed marinara, I know that it is wrong.

[Anonymous No.14108521]

>>14108094
A little thyme goes a LOOONG way.

[Anonymous No.14108533]

>>14108213
Well fuck, I guess I was a wrong fucking retard then.

[Anonymous No.14108536]

>>14105892
To give you an ACTUAL critique:
Use chicken bouillon instead of broth.
Fully cook the chicken breasts first by sautee-ing in EVOO
Use way less thyme
Cook your pasta to just shy of aldente and then toss in the sauce for a bit.
And yea, don't be using jar sauce.

[Anonymous No.14108539]

>>14107712
hi adam

[Anonymous No.14108638]

>>14105892
To make a good pasta you just need tomatoes, basil, garlic, carrots, celery(optional), olive oil, salt and butter. The chicken should be well seasoned and pan fried. You just cook the sauce, boil the pasta, fry the chicken and then plate and serve with cheese on top. Doesn’t need to be so ingredient heavy and “one-pot”.

[Anonymous No.14108680]

>>14105892
the pasta doesn't even seem to be cooked kek

[Anonymous No.14108705]

>>14107625
let me interject for a second, you could try soya or oyster sauce instead of the worcestershire. I do think it can bring an interesting combination.

[Anonymous No.14108894]

>>14105892
Looks like a slop

Here's what I made tonight
>turkey tails
>turkey necks
>celery
>carrot
>sweet onion
>mushrooms
>Worcestershire
>hot sauce
>chicken stock
>pepper
>cajun seasoning

My slop is better than your slop

[Anonymous No.14108924]

>>14105892
I won't even shit on you for using jarred sauce, but imo this seems like you had no idea of what you wanted to make so you just slapped random ingredients you had laying around together. Could be made a lot simpler
>brown the chicken first
>remove from pot and deglazed with some chicken stock
>add onion and mushrooms and garlic
>add the jarred sauce
>simmer a bit
>add chicken back in
>add the pasta I guess at this point, probably better to boil separately and pour sauce over it
>don't fucking add cheese directly to the pot, grate some on top when you serve instead
wala, like the others said, bell peppers seem extremely pointless and those tiny amounts of herbs will be practically unnoticeable.

[Anonymous No.14108927]

>>14108924
also brine the chicken breast so it doesn't totally suck