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C is for...cooking
Wednesday, 15 June 2005
italian night
before i go into dinner last night i have to announce that i'm incredibly sad at this moment in time

i wanted to buy this le creuset set it was hella cheap

i saw it last night & i debated & then i decided to get it but i have work today..i checked on it & it was there but literally just a few minutes ago it was gone...i'm guessing sold out & now i'm super sad

i told diana i haven't wanted something so badly since my knife...:(

now i want to cry


anyways...onto reality

i made chicken parmesan w/ roasted eggplant & spaghetti w/ roasted red & yellow bell pepper marinara & garlic bread

the spaghetti was half of the box leftover from the last time we had pasta & the sauce too...

just coated chicken w/ egg whites & seasoned breadcrumbs..pan-fried & then baked off in the oven w/ mozzarella...normally you spoon on the sauce when you bake it off but ididn't want it to get soggy during the wait soo i spooned it on afterwards

eggplants i just drizzled w/ olive oil & seasonings & baked in a 425 degree oven...

the eggplants were sort of bitter..i know it was cuz of the seeds but i couldn't really do anything about it...felt kinda bad but yea

the chicken was good & the spaghetti too

oh & the garlic bread...softened butter...fresh thyme & garlic & seasonings & parmesan cheese & smeared it on sliced ciabatta baked it off

it was a pretty simple meal...

chicken parmesan is one of the simplest chicken dishes to make believe it or not...

last time my students & i made it in under 30 minutes
(that meal was with roasted asparagus, angel hair w/ marinara & chicken parmesan)

technically you should be adding parmesan cheese into the breadcrumbs to coat the chicken but we didn't do that to cut down the fat..plus the mozzarella is plenty of flavor...but parmesan is a hard cheese so it's not taht much fat for the amount of flavor it gives...so it's up to you...

anyways i'm kinda rambling because i'm sad about my le crueset

how come i always miss out!! :( my kitchen aid mixer too....

ANYWAYS

we finished off the meal with trader joe's charlotte berry torte which pierre had brought over before

good stuff

oh yea & we had the meal w/ ligonberry apple "sparkling juice beverage" aka cider over which pierre & i pondered why it even had the word beverage at the end cuz isn't juice a beverage?

ah well

Posted by blog/c_is_for at 4:05 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 15 June 2005 4:14 PM EDT
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