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| Saturday, February 28, 2009 02:38 PM |
| (Last updated on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 03:25 PM) | | The Continuing Adventures of Chef Fëanor |
 by Fëanor |
I actually picked out only three new recipes to make for dinner this week; the other nights I figured I'd just throw together something easy like a pizza or some pasta. Wednesday night ended up being pizza night. Making pizza is nothing new for me; once almost every week we use a thin Boboli pizza crust as a basis for a meal. My half usually gets some tomato sauce on the bottom, then the whole thing gets a healthy layer of shredded mozzarella cheese, followed by garlic powder, and some oregano and basil on my side. Then come the toppings, which vary depending on what we have in the fridge at the time. I always have pepperoni handy for my side, but then we'll often add artichoke hearts, red peppers, tomatoes, various other cheeses (including smoked mozzarella, parmesan, and ricotta), olives (for poppy's side only - I'm not a fan), sometimes some chicken, and so on. It's easy, quick, fun, and delicious.
Thursday night we ended up taking the dog to the vet, and didn't have a lot of time for dinner, so we just made some sandwiches with some leftover rotisserie chicken.
Friday night I made lemon-herb chicken (recipe here) and heated up some leftover broccoli as a side. I tend to be afraid when cooking chicken that some part of it will come out pink and raw, and I'll end up poisoning whoever I'm cooking for, so I think I overcompensated and cooked this a little too long, but it still came out okay - very flavorful. It wasn't too hard to put together, either, although the olive oil sure splattered all over the place while it was cooking; then again, I didn't really measure the oil out, so maybe I used a little too much. Anyway, I'd say it was another success.
Today I noticed we had some bacon left which really had to get used or thrown out, so I cooked it all up and made us grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches on some crusty rolls that we picked up at Wegman's this morning. I used sliced mozzarella cheese and pressed the rolls down in the skillet using our handy dandy sandwich press. The sandwiches came out pretty tasty. I realized as I was making them, though, that maybe this was more bacon than I should really eat in a day, as I'd already had a bacon, egg, and cheese waffle sandwich from Dunkin' Donuts for breakfast. I guess I'll just have to make sure I avoid bacon in whatever I have for dinner (it'll probably be pasta, so that shouldn't be too hard). |
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