Chicken, Shitake and Button Mushroom, and Blue Cheese Pasta...

Ingredients:

50g Dried shiitake mushrooms
Canned or fresh Button mushrooms
2pcs Chicken breast fillet
2tbsp Butter
1 tbsp Olive oil
1 cup white wine [optional]
250ml All Purpose Cream
80g Blue Cheese
250g Penne [or any pasta of your choice]
Boiling water
a handful of parsley
salt and pepper for seasoning
Parmesan cheese to serve

Serves: 3

Recipe:

1. Place the dried shiitake mushrooms in a deep bowl and add the boiling water until submerged. Stir a little and set aside for 20mins until the mushrooms have been rehydrated. After 20mins, strain and squeeze the rehydrated shiitake off any excess liquid, and reserve the rehydrating liquid, or the mushroom broth. Then slice the mushrooms into strips of any size you want. And set aside. As for the button mushrooms, if you have whole's, quarter it. If it's already sliced, do you really want to slice it any smaller? -__- Ahehe. Set aside.
2. Slice the breast fillets into bite sized strips or cubes [whatever you want. It's your chicken. ^_^] and season with a some salt and pepper. Saute the strips in a pan with the oil and butter, and set aside once all done.
3. On the same pan, saute the shiitake mushrooms and the button mushrooms until slightly browned. 
4. Add the chicken back to the pan. Then deglaze the pan with the wine [optional], and reduce. Once reduced, add the mushroom broth and avoid adding those little bits of dirt that sunk to the bottom of the bowl, and reduce.
5. Add the cream and bring to a boil. Then crumble the blue cheese and stir until the cheese melts and fully incorporated. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Turn off the heat, and fold in the parsley.
7. Serve, sprinkle parmesan and a sprig of parsley to garnish.
8. Enjoy. ^_^

note: The wine is optional. Just skip the step and deglaze the pan with the broth instead. :)