Broccoli Spaghetti

Broccoli Spaghetti

Type of dish: Almost a whole meal -- side of fruit preferred
Type of taste: Plain, warm, with occasional spice

This Wednesday my mom, sister, and I all cooked Broccoli Spaghetti, which you can find here. It was really quick to make and tasted very good, but it did not fill us as much as we would have liked. We also felt like it could have something else added to it -- my mom thought fruit would be nice. We didn't really plan for fruit, though, so we just had the broccoli spaghetti. Also, we used rice pasta instead of regular pasta, so it turned out a little different than it would with wheat pasta.



Assessment:

Recipe: Easy to follow
The recipe was very easy to follow. I had no trouble with it. There was one bit I had slight confusion over, but it didn't really affect the cooking.

Difficulty: Very easy
I remember thinking "I could make this again" when I was cooking it, because it was so simple. You boil some spaghetti, pick some chicken off an already cooked chicken, cut some stuff, and sauté it all together for like ten minutes. Very simple and easy.

Time: 30-45 minutes
This did not take much time at all! It took my mom, my sister, and I about thirty minutes total. An inexperienced cook who is cooking by herself (or himself) will probably take forty-five minutes, but it shouldn't take longer than that. It is a good meal for a night where you don't have much time, because honestly is very easy and fast.

Taste: It was good, but not much more
It was very good, especially with parmesan cheese on it, but it was not great. I didn't like the red peppers, but the dish was a little plain without them. My mom liked it better with olive oil drizzled on it, but I will have to try different things if I make it again. Perhaps I'll try a different spice, or I'll add something like bacon into the mix...

Expense: $6 ($5 with wheat pasta instead of rice pasta)
Do you like my new segment? The dish cost about six dollars total to feed a family of four with little to no leftovers. It was actually a little less than that because we only used about half of a rotisserie chicken and 3/4 of a bag of broccoli. This is a good, inexpensive meal.


Overall: 7 out of 10
This dish took no time at all and it was very good, but it did not taste spectacular. It was good, but the little bits of red pepper irritated me and my mom thought there were not enough of them. I will probably have to do a little bit of tweaking to make it more delicious, but other than that it is very good!


Next week I will be cooking Chicken Lazone, if the universe does not shove me on an island in the middle of nowhere.