{"id":16,"date":"2026-02-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/?p=16"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:09:38","slug":"louises-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/louises-pasta.html","title":{"rendered":"Louise&#8217;s Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are currently trying to think of a famous chef named Louise, and can&#8217;t come up with one,  (I dunno. Maybe there is one and I just don&#8217;t know.) give it up. Louise made this pasta for dinner when we visited her family about 20 years ago. I asked for the recipe, and I still make it &#8211; and it always makes me think of the fun times our families had together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise&#8217;s Pasta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 slices of bacon, cut into bite sized pieces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 whole chicken breast cut into bite sized pieces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 t each Rosemary and thyme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salt and pepper to taste<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 small onion, chopped<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bd each red and green pepper, chopped<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 mushrooms, sliced<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Tablespoon flour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \u00bd Tablespoon paprika<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 oz cream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pasta (enough for 4 people)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In large pan, fry bacon until it starts to brown. Add chicken and cook until bacon is crispy and chicken begins to brown. Season with salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the chicken is cooking, start cooking the pasta.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add onion, mushrooms and peppers, and continue cooking until vegetables soften. Sprinkle on the flour, mix into the chicken and vegetable mixture, and cook for 2 or 3 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add the cream and paprika. Add additional cream and paprika to result in a creamy, orange-coloured sauce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add the cooked pasta to the sauce. Serve with grated parmesan cheese.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are currently trying to think of a famous chef named Louise, and can&#8217;t come up with one, (I dunno. Maybe there is one and I just don&#8217;t know.) give it up. Louise made this pasta for dinner when we visited her family about&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/louises-pasta.html\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicken","tag-main-dishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunandsalt.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}