Senor's pasta

Ingredients

• Noodles - some kind of pasta. any will do.
• Chicken breast - either boneless breasts or boneless tenders.
• Red onions - or not. Chopped up into thin slices.
• An apple or a pear - get a nice big one.
• Cheese - one fancy cheese like gouda, fresh mozzarella, smoked swiss, whatever.
• Cheese - shredded parmesan for the top
• Brown sugar
• Butter
• Olive oil
• Basil - fresh if you've got it
• Garlic - fresh if you've got it
• White wine, or beer, or not if you don't have it. It won't ruin it to not have it.

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Preparation

• Other things that you can toss in there include mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, bacon, etc. Really, whatever you have.
• Start by melting butter with olive oil in a skillet. Cook the chicken and cut into smallish pieces. Boil up the noodles.
• Chop and add the onion and cook until onion is translucent. Add a bit more butter and add the chopped apple or pear.
• Once coated in butter, sprinkle brown sugar in. Add some wine or beer. Or not. You can add wine and beer throughout if you want.
• It'll deglaze the pan and add flavor. At this point you may want to sprinkle everything with salt and pepper, garlic and crushed red pepper.
• Once everything is more or less tender, toss in your cooked pasta . Get that stuff coated. If you don't have enough sauce, add more wine/beer, butter, oil, brown sugar, whatever you want.
• Give a coated noodle a taste and adjust your seasoning as necessary. When everything looks just about ready, add in some cubed cheese and some fresh basil leaves.
• Turn off the heat and just stir these things in. This keeps the cheese from glopping all over, but gives each cube a nice melted texture.