friday love list

Anyone who knows me well, knows that today is a huge day for me. The newest Harry Potter DVD was released at midnight. I didn't think anything could beat that. As I was doing my normal blog reading I clicked on over to a blog I like to read every once in a while, and died laughing. Never in my life did I expect this. 

Confession of a 20 Something is always entertaining but today, she made a discovery that I can only dream of making. Insert the Cuchini. There are so many things to say about this, from the camel mascot to the amazing slogan and video. Watch it. Laugh. Explore. Laugh. Question what the world is coming to. and laugh some more.

Enjoy your Friday. 

all on my own

In January one of the first meals I made all on my own was an awesome spinach and cheese stuffed chicken. This week I was thinking of making it again but I was already out and couldn't completely remember what ingredients it needed, but I thought it was ricotta and cottage cheese, well I was wrong. So needless to say I got home and had the wrong ingredients but still wanted something stuffed chicken.

So for the very first time, I made dinner without a recipe. It was a scary experience to say the least. I still had the recipe up for reference, but since the ingredients I had were so different, I had no idea how much to use. 

I started by slicing up the spinach smaller since I remembered that last time the pieces were too big, I also included mushrooms because they sounded delicious. I put those on the pan so start cooking and got to pounding out the chicken

Once that was done I put a couple tablespoons of ricotta cheese and cottage cheese in a medium bowl. I added the cooked spinach and mushrooms in and started stirring. I glanced at the recipe from last time and saw that it called for fresh garlic so I added some garlic powder and prayed that it would taste good. Then the fun began!

I took the chicken and added a large spoonful of the mixture in the middle and started the "rolling" process, which I pretty much failed at. You would think a girl from Texas who has mastered the fajita roll could handle the chicken roll, still not quite there!

Once that was all done I dipped the chicken rolls into an egg and water mixture and bread crumbs!

Around this time mister got home and looked at me like I was crazy because there was not enough counter space so my laptop was on the floor right outside the kitchen

After 35 minutes at 375 the chicken rolls were perfect!! Served up with some steamed veggies and it was a perfect Monday night meal!

xoxo

impromptu dinner

Last week after a later than usual work out mister and I were hungry... but we just did not know for what. Normally we would go back and forth trying to get the other person to decide and then end up having chicken and some sort of vegetable with rice, but I remembered we had a fresh, delicious avocado screaming to top a delicious chicken sandwich. 

So we got into itty bitty to hit up publix for some fresh buns, organic fresh chicken (we did not have any thawed out), a salad mix, almond slices and a raspberry vinaigrette. 

First we sliced up the inspiration for the dinner (pics taken with my phone, forgive me)

We used a pre-mixed salad, but added sliced almonds, mushrooms, grapes and a raspberry vinaigrette - it was awesome

Mister covered the chicken in a honey bar-b-q sauce we had left over from wings and cooked them on a non stick pan

Once the chicken was cooked we put it onto the fresh bun, added the avocado slices with the salad as our side and it was delicious!! All the flavors combined perfectly for an awesome quick impromptu dinner!!

We also had enough left over for me to take for lunch the next day, which was a great change from my usual sandwich!

xoxo