Why do all the recipes I find on the internet at the moment

[StealthPolarBear]

talk about cups and include in the list of ingredients "jar of tomato based pasta sauce" or "Kraft spicy low fat dressing"? I am a slattern but even I wouldn't class that as cooking from scratch

I would hazard a guess you have been looking at American websites.
try searching UK instead of the world.

You are using American websites, I suspect.

I actually like the cup measurements and have bought myself a set of cups as a lot of my recipes are American ones.

I agree about the using of processed food - a lot of that around. Useless when you don't want to use a packet of cake mix.

Agree! As soon as I saw the "Kraft" mention I thought it must be American sites!

Teh BBC Good Food website is good.

well they all seem american then, strange. I can't find the one I wanted to do the other day :( Anyone got a recipe for a chicken & broccili tagliatelli?

I start by searching MN recipe section, then ask on here.

What are you wanting to do with the chicken?

I would cut the chicken into strips and fry, steam the broccoli, cook tagliatteli, drain , then bung together with a splash of white wine, some cream cheese and a bit of cream, herbs and seasonings.

Not quite chicken & broccoli but v yummy...from Eat Yourself Thin & serves 2-3

Ingredients:

? Mushrooms
? 175g dried linguine/spaghetti

? 150g grated courgette
? 150ml low fat crème fraiche
? 100ml low fat Greek yoghurt
? 1 large free-range egg yolk
? 17g Parmesan cheese

? Zest of 1 unwaxed lemon

? Salt & pepper
? 125g cold roast chicken, shredded
? Small bunch of fresh chives, snipped *

Method:

1. Heat a pan & spritz in a few spritzes of olive oil. Fry mushrooms then remove & set aside. Fry the grated courgette for a couple of minutes. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil & cook pasta according to the instructions on the packet, but cook it for a minute or two less so it?s a little underdone.

2. Meanwhile mix together the crème fraiche, yoghurt, egg yolk, Parmesan, lemon zest, salt & pepper.

3. Drain the cooked pasta, leaving a few tablespoons of water in the bottom of the pan. Return the pan to a low heat and pour in the sauce.

4. Toss the pasta in the sauce, then add the roast chicken & chives, giving it all a good mix round till it?s evenly incorporated.

thanks you two, think I will do a hybrisd of the two

Don't forget to take have a glass sip of the wine first, just to make sure it is not corked.

Could be Australian websites as well - they insist on using cups of stuff instead of weighing; but just to add to the fun the cup sizes are slightly different from the US standard.

Glad you have a recipe - don't you check the BBC website or have they just not got what you're after?
A quick google using PAges for UK only brought this recipe up - there are several more for chicken & broccoli pasta bake.

Tonight I will now be making Mme Lindt's chicken and broccoli pasta.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

thanks thumbwitch, no it was more a creamy/cheesy/winey sauce. It had almonds in

Found it!
Probably. It has weights as well as cup measures. :)

That sounds quite nice, I may do a version of it using ground almonds as I have some to use up.

Stealth, I got cup measures in Poundland for American recipes.

thats it thanks!

I tried it tonight, well a version of it.
I used cream, chicken stock and ground almonds instead of the listed as that's what I had in.

I'm wheat and dairy free and boring but it tasted good before the cream was added and without the pasta.

American recipes also love 'chicken broth' which I assumed was stock, but is actually tinned cream of chicken soup I mean, really? In say a pasta sauce or a casserole?

Also various forms of corn

I wish Tech would sort out poor 's hat.

iTigress, chicken stock is in fact broth, not cream of chicken soup.