FoodB

I did so well last week. I was drinking a lot of Mountain Dew so I guess all that energy had to go somewhere.

I grilled up some homemade carne asada on Monday night and made taco from that and some grill onions and peppers. I tried to make it a sweet marinade because Jenn can't take spicy food. The result was okay and I just didn't feel inspired yesterday to write about it.

Last night though Jenn made her spaghetti. She made me promise not to divulge the recipe and since she goes to sleep after me at night and I don't want to wake up with a knife over me I've decided to agree to those terms. She make a damn good sauce in my opinion and I could eat it without the noodles if I felt so inclined. I told her once that based on her sauce alone that I would never leave her and I pretty sure she thinks I should just marry the damn sauce.

Tonight I am going to cook up some chicken parmesan with the leftover sauce from last night. Chicken parmesan is one of the easiest meals I know how to cook and ever since I learned that I just can't order it at restaurants anymore. Here's how I prepare it:

Take 2 pieces of boneless skinless chicken breasts and tenderize them with a meat hammer thing. You want them to be flatter than they come but not thin so go easy on the whacking. Cut each of those pieces in half lengthwise. Scramble about 4-5 eggs in a bowl and prepare a bowl of breadcrumbs (I use Progresso's Italian bread crumbs). Take each strip of chicken and dip them in the eggs and then dredge it in the breadcrumbs. I always double coat so I put it in the eggs again and dredge once again to get a thick coat on the chicken and then put it aside. If you have a deep fryer you can fire that up or heat about 3 cups of oil in a frying pan and cook each piece until it is a golden brown.

Get a baking dish (I use a square 9 x 9 dish) and put a little spaghetti sauce on the bottom. If you don't have leftover sauce the stuff that comes in jars is okay for this recipe (I prefer the Newman's sauce, most of the other stuff has to much sugar in it). Put the chicken on top of the sauce and sprinkle some parmesan cheese on top of the chicken. cover it all with sauce and top the sauce with a lot of mozzarella cheese. Bake that at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes and serve. I usually just put it on top of left over noodles from the night before and make a side salad.

Seems like a lot of work but once you get used to making it, it only takes about 30 minutes all together. It's also one of the few things that I have made for my wife that she remark how amazing it was. Of course I blew the whole deal by showing her how easy it was to make but for those few hours I was on top.