Chicken Alfredo with “Almost Noodles”
School Lunch
President Truman started the National School Lunch Program in 1946. A little over a decade later I was born. I went to a Catholic School as a child. Most every kid stayed at school for lunch. It was an expected part of the program.
My mother fairly regularly volunteered as a “lunch lady” at the school. She went in early in the morning and helped prepare the food, helped serve and clean up, and then ran errands on her way home to cook dinner for the family. She became friends with many of the on-staff ladies who were the full-time pros. Those were the women who designed the menus, ordered the food and supplies and supervised the cooking.
I can remember many of the meals we were served. Each of them contained a protein, a starch or two, a veggie and something for dessert. One of my favorites was chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed peas and carrots, a dinner roll with butter and freshly made apple crisp. Sure, there were times when something was served that I didn’t like. Sauerkraut comes to mind. We’d have some kind of roasted meat with the sauerkraut on the side. I’d eat the meat and everything else on my plate but the sauerkraut always stayed on my tray. There were plenty of lunch ladies cruising the aisles making sure you ate the majority of your meal, but I could get away with leaving the sauerkraut behind. The drink was always 8 ounces of whole, white milk. In Wisconsin, that was a given.
Now compare that to the average lunch in a grade school today...
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Chicken Alfredo with “Almost Noodles”
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This is a ZReboot recipe. This dish comes together in a flash! You can also make it with steak or even seafood. Any of those options would be good. When I get a hankering for pasta I crave Chicken Alfredo. This one did it for me! Satisfied that craving.
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