Dijon Chicken Spaghetti

Ever have one of those recipes, that you save because it looks so good, and you promise yourself that you’re going to make it soon, but it just seems to hang out in the back of your mind never to make it into the kitchen? I do that. And you know what, when ever I do it always turns out that I want to kick myself in the kneecap for putting it off. Because those always seem to be some of my favorite recipes. It’s almost like my brain says, “Oh you’re gonna LOVE that, so I’ll tuck it away in your memory and play games with your mind, and then one day I’ll let you remember it and I’ll let you make it.” Really Brain? Stop that! Now!It normally happens like that! The recipes or ideas that I keep putting off, end up being some of my favorites.  Why do I do this to myself. Maybe it’s because it sounds to good, and I’m afraid that I’ll destroy the recipe while I’m cooking and it’ll taste like dirt. I don’t know.

For example, I waited almost 2 years before making this Jack Daniels Bread Pudding, I thought about these
Lofthouse Style Cookies for about 3 months before making them, ooo and get this, it took me over 6 years to finally break down and attempt a recreation of my favorite pasta, ( Southwest Pasta ) from the restaurant I use to work at when Big Bear and I started dating. I’m even shaking my head at that one.

 

So I’m not even going to tell you that it’s been over a year since I saved this recipe, or that is was one of the first things that I pinned on Pinterest, or that it took me a month to gather all of the stuff to make it. (I pinned it before I even knew how to really use Pinterest and ended up only pinning the picture, with no link to the recipe..oops)Oh and one more thing, please, please, please DO NOT, copy and paste an entire recipe with photo onto your blog from another person’s blog, and make that your blog post! It’s stealing! Really it is. You don’t know how many blogs I had to go through to find the original recipe that I used to base this dish around. I mean sure, I could have looked at those other sites, sure I could have just figured most of it out from the picture and title, but I wanted to be-able to link to the recipe/blog that had been taunting me for over a year haha.

This Dijon Chicken Spaghetti was inspired by the Dijon Chicken Linguine with Chanterelle Mushrooms and Toasted Almonds from RockRecipes.ca . I changed it up and bit, but without RockRecipe’s recipe, I never would have tried anything like this. I normally wouldn’t make anything with mustard, but it looked so good I had to. 

The sauce is creamy and coats everything well, and it had three of my favorite foods: Chicken, mushrooms and pasta! Plus I used whole wheat pasta, so I can pretend like it’s good for me right? Right? 😉