Recipe: Easy Tuna Pasta with White Sauce

The sauce is a bit runny, but the husband loves it as is. "I can eat this every week!" he declared after tasting it. If you prefer a thicker sauce, however, just add a bit of flour. Measurements are approximations--the fantastic thing about cooking is you can adjust according to your taste!

Ingredients:

300g spaghetti noodles, cooked according to package directions
1 can tuna (I use the solid one in vegetable oil)
1 can evaporated milk
2 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp ground pepper (I use black, but white pepper would disappear into the sauce, if that's what you want)
White wine (optional)
Grated cheese

1. Saute tuna in its own oil. Set aside.
2. In a saucepan, mix milk, butter, ground pepper, and wine.
3. Once butter is melted, add tuna.
4. Pour over spaghetti noodles and top with cheese.

Serves 3 to 4.

Recipe: Creamy Baked Chicken and Rice

So I'm starting a whole new category of posts. Since I got hitched, I've been more inclined (or forced to) experiment in the kitchen. I'll be posting mostly easy recipes since I don't have the mad skillz to back up anything Top Chef-esque as of yet.

I'm starting off with a chicken recipe from the back of a Campbell's soup can, which I tweaked given availability of ingredients and personal preference.

Ingredients:
1 can Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup
1 cup water
1/3 cup white wine (I just added this; we had some leftover white wine)
1/4 tsp Savory spice (it was supposed to be paprika, but our spice rack didn't have any paprika. Sigh. Next time.)
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
3/4 cup brown rice (it's supposed to be long-grain white rice, but this is a brown-rice household)
4 chicken breast fillets

1. Preheat oven to 475F.
2. In a baking dish, mix together soup, water, wine, Savory, and pepper.
3. Top with chicken fillets.
4. Sprinkle chicken with additional Savory and pepper.
5. Cover and bake for 45 minutes or until rice is cooked and chicken is done.

It's so easy! And my husband loved it!