Revisiting a simple meal—Sautéed Chicken Breasts with Pasta

Over 20 years ago, out of university, with a limited income, I knew I had to eat on a budget, and I didn’t want to pay for jar sauce (don’t use jar sauce). This was one of my go-to recipes for dinner swapping sautéed chicken breasts with ground meat in the pasta. I had a vague notion of what pasta sauce was with limited ingredients that I could use for a variety of different meals (lunches and dinners). So this week I decided to try to make this from scratch, going out to the super market like I had done in the past, and seeing if I could replicate what I used to do, but maybe a little better...

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I think I am going to try a cooking challenge this week:

Revisit a simple meal that I used to cook when I was first starting out in life using the same or similar ingredients.

For me, this would be one of the two “simple”, budget-friendly recipes that without requiring fancy equipment—sautéed (?) boneless, lightly-breaded (?) chicken breasts with a pasta and a crunchy (?) tomato-based sauce (usually with mushrooms, carrots, and bell peppers).

I checked and I don’t have any pictures of this from 20 years ago. Maybe that’s a good thing.

I used to shop at a Meijer, but that location is now a bank...

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