Thursday dinner: Lime cilantro fettuccine with chicken

Saturday’s trip to the Central New York Regional Market yielded more than just tomatoes and cheese. We made a stop at one of the better kept secrets at in the third barn: Flour City Pasta. They set up shop near the North doors in the C Shed, hauling about 20-30 different varieties of homemade dry pasta to Syracuse each week from its homebase in Fairport. I’ve extolled their virtues in the past and have used their products before (three words: sweet potato orzo). During our stop, The Wife pointed out the lime cilantro fettuccine with the look my daughter gets when I open the cabinet with the Goldfish crackers. I picked up a half-pound…anything to please The Wife. At $8 a pound, it’s a little steep but the quality is undeniable.

The upshot of dinner is that it is pretty low in fat; only the one gram per 1/4 lb. serving of pasta and one and a half in each of the two chicken breasts I added. Dinner may have actually been, gasp, healthy.