Cooking
In our kinda-sorta attempt to eat better (read: more veggies for Matt), as well as cut back on the time spent in front of the stove (a depressing afternoon spent figuring out just how much time Matt and I spend together left us with about 5 1/2 hours not allotted to work or sleeping. Fitting in meal prep and quality Alex-time? Rough.), we've been looking to salad and sandwich recipes for help.
The latest, Spicy Chicken Salad; a nice green salad of arugula (because we discovered we were out of spinach), sweet grape tomatoes, scallions, and avocados (perfect!), topped with a dressing of yogurt, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic, then slices of salt/cumin/coriander/ancho chile-coated chicken or Veat (broiled).
Nice salad, but neither of us cared for the dressing. I thought it just had too much of a bite. But the chicken (Veat) was perfect, and the veggies were fantastic.
Matt felt we needed something else to go with, so we completely blew our healthy-eating karma by including Pommes Voisin from this book; a version of Pommes Annette which we made last year.
Potatoes and butter...yeah, that's good for the heart.
And a big thank you to Matt, for doing all the work tonight!
Tagged with: Food and Drink, Salad, Chicken, Potatoes
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Cooking
Spicy Chicken Salad
In our kinda-sorta attempt to eat better (read: more veggies for Matt), as well as cut back on the time spent in front of the stove (a depressing afternoon spent figuring out just how much time Matt and I spend together left us with about 5 1/2 hours not allotted to work or sleeping. Fitting in meal prep and quality Alex-time? Rough.), we've been looking to salad and sandwich recipes for help.
The latest, Spicy Chicken Salad; a nice green salad of arugula (because we discovered we were out of spinach), sweet grape tomatoes, scallions, and avocados (perfect!), topped with a dressing of yogurt, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic, then slices of salt/cumin/coriander/ancho chile-coated chicken or Veat (broiled).
Nice salad, but neither of us cared for the dressing. I thought it just had too much of a bite. But the chicken (Veat) was perfect, and the veggies were fantastic.
Matt felt we needed something else to go with, so we completely blew our healthy-eating karma by including Pommes Voisin from this book; a version of Pommes Annette which we made last year.
Potatoes and butter...yeah, that's good for the heart.
And a big thank you to Matt, for doing all the work tonight!
Tagged with: Food and Drink, Salad, Chicken, Potatoes
- That Would Be A 'miss'
As much as I love Indian food, I don't often make it at home. It can be a lot of work...although, generally, worth every minute. Over the past couple of years, I've acquired Suvir Saran's books, Indian Home Cooking & American Masala. Many,...
- With A Hurry On The Curry
Oooh; that was bad, wasn't it? Sorry 'bout that. I always get stuck on the titles. And all I could think of was the turkey curry from Bridget Jones. Yeah, I'm that desperate. It's been an interesting first week of 'no dairy'....
- Parmesan Chicken With Balsamic Butter Sauce
A surprisingly simple dinner dish: Parmesan Chicken with Balsamic Butter Sauce. We never buy whole chickens, so as always, we cut up chicken (and Veat) breasts; reducing the baking time. Parmesan cheese, olive oil, garlic, and oregano for the chicken's...
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Day one of our (pre) Cinco de Mayo dinners...we have Chicken and Avocado Soup, garnished with Fried Tortillas, and Tomato, Avocado and Roasted Corn Salad. (all recipes are from the Food & Wine web site; you have to be a subscriber to read them. so, if...