White wine pasta with Clams

Want something light and tasty? Try MY ORIGINAL recipe! haha, so I was supposed to go to the store last night to get groceries but I got lazy because it was raining and I didn't want to leave Cooper in the car, then I remembered I had clams and figured I'd try to make white wine pasta with clams. I looked up a few recipes and decided that I was going to try to invent something on my own and it actually turned out pretty good! Although, I must say that I kind of cheated because I used the frozen food called Steamers, which comes with 1 pound of clams in this garlic butter parsley sauce and I added that juice from the clams into the sauce that I made. Kristin says it's still considered made from scratch, but I know better. ;)

I wanted to post this last night but I drank two glass of the white wine I was using and passed out at around 9:00pm. haha, but here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

Pasta (I used farfalle)

5 sundried tomatoes

1 Steamers from the frozen food section

1 cup white wine

2 teaspoons flour

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon chicken stock

1 tablespoon milk or cream

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 cup chopped mushroom

1 teaspoon pepper


Instructions:

1. Melt the butter in a skillet, then add the white wine.
2. Let that reduce a little bit while putting the Steamers in the microwave (only takes 5 minutes!)
3. Add chicken stock, milk, and flour to the skillet and let that all mix in together for a few minutes.
4. Then, add the juice from the Steamers to the skillet; let reduce.
5. Add Onions,mushrooms, and pepper to the pan.
6. Cook the pasta. (I made enough for about 4 servings)
7. Once pasta is done, the sauce should be done..mix together!
8. Add sundried tomatoes and clams, then mix again.
9. Serve!

So now that I am an acclaimed chef (haha jk...), but really...the only reason I think it turned out ok was because I took a tip from the show "Worst Cooks of America" which was to continue to taste the sauce as I was adding stuff to make sure that it was going in the right direction. I'll have to try to do this more often. =) Next? I want to make this spicy yogurt chicken recipe I got from hecookshecookswecook.com...except I am going to try a batch with tofu!