Spaghetti & Chicken Strips

Hi Friends,

I hope everyone is enjoying a great Valentine's Day!  Tonight we are having crab legs with corn on the cob and all the trimmings we love with this meal.  But for tonight's recipe it is a spaghetti sauce, made for the first time by myself and chicken strips, purchased from Sam's Club; they are good though.  The kids like them and the spaghetti sauce although very easy to make is surprisingly good.  The spaghetti sauce recipe was adapted from a smitten kitchen recipe. 

Here we go:

The Players:

No, I did not miss anything, the sauce is super simply but quite good.  Chicken strips are from Sam's Club. 

The canned tomatoes are added to the pot along with a medium onion cut in half, as well as the butter.  Easy peasy.

This is how the chicken strips come, they are raw so must be cooked, not just thawed and eaten. Follow package directions.

Prepare spaghetti according to package directions. 

All done and ready to enjoy... 

Ingredients:
1 package chicken strips, aproximately 18-20 in package
Spaghetti; appropriate amount for number of persons being served
6 tablespoons butter, salted or unsalted will work
1- 28 oz. can whole tomatoes
1 medium onion, halved
salt and pepper, if needed

Recipe:
Place whole tomatoes in pot, crushing on side of pot with back of spoon as they cook and soften.  Add butter and onion that has been cut in half.  Bring ingredients to a boil, over medium heat.  When sauce boils gently, reduce heat to medium low and allow sauce to simmer gently for 45 minutes.  Stir sauce occasionally.

Meanwhile cook chicken stips in oven on cookie as package directs, until done. 

Cook spaghetti when aproximately half way through the sauce simmering time.  Prepare according to package directions.  Drain, keep warm.

When sauce is done, remove the onion.  Add salt and pepper if needed, taste first, remember the canned tomatoes have added salt.

Add sauce to spaghetti on individual plates, serve with chicken strips, adding sauce to the chicken strips is also good. 

Serve with a glass of wine and some warm, crusty,  Italian bread.

Enjoy!

Evelyn