About Big Green Gourmet:

Welcome to Big Green Gourmet. Sam, I am and I am dedicated to improving your meals here at Dartmouth. This blog serves mainly to provide you with easy to follow recipes, which can be made using the food you get from DDS. My aim is to come up with new ways to eat the same food you've been eating, create some delicious dishes and encourage you to improvise beyond your standard Joe-Yo. BGG (Big Green Gourmet- for those of you who catch on rather slowly) is the place to go when you want to shake up your DDS selections. Leave comments about new recipes, improving the blog, or anything really…

Bon appetite!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Creamy Thai Chicken Pasta



I am sick of eating at FoCo and Courtyard (the Hop for you '14s who don't know), not because the food is bad, just because, if you haven't noticed from my posts, those are the only places I've been eating. Thus, I have gone to Collis for this creation. One of the things that Collis does absolutely right is that it allows all students to improvise their own dishes and to eat new combinations of food, which is a mission I personally take to heart. I hope that you don't operate with the misconception that Collis is always crowded because it is always packed. Rather, Collis is always packed because it is small. Do not be intimidated, the lines are usually shorter than those at FoCo or the Courtyard. With that said…



You will need:

Chicken

Thai peanut sauce

Corn

Edamame

Mushrooms

Broccoli

Any kind of pasta

Alfredo sauce



The first thing that needs to be made clear is that before you attempt to make this dish you need to look up when Collis will be serving pasta and stir fry at the same time. To start, go to the salad bar and gather all of the aforementioned vegetables. Once you reach the front of the pasta line, you want to ask for 1 and a half scoops of pasta and (duh) the alfredo sauce. While that's being cooked, hop over to the stir fry line and ask for a side of chicken with peanut sauce. Once the two are done, pay (duh x 2) and get ready to mix. You want to get as much peanut sauce as possible to mix with the alfredo sauce when you add your side of chicken. If the color of the alfredo isn't ever so slightly altered by the peanut sauce then you don't have enough; go get more. Then you're ready to eat…


Note: (hah, I bet you got used to the routine epithet, but sadly for you I have more to say) You want to get your pasta on a plate. The reason for that is simple: your vegetables may not cook entirely on the pasta line. If you like your vegetables semi-raw more power to you. But, for the rest of the normal population, you will need a plate to continue heating your food in the microwave (because you can't heat flimsy plastic containers in the microwave, duh x 3). And from here…


Well, you know the drill… - Sam, I am.

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