Um, so I’m not quite sure what happened to last week (or the beginning of this week) but I apologize for not getting our menu out! The long weekend threw me off (even though it was no different from any other day), and it was the last week of our schooling at home. Can I get an “amen”?! I can tell you that our highlight from last week was the Chicken Pot Pie from Dinner: A Love Story (page 33). It has sweet potatoes in it, which I have a funny relationship with. I like them and I know how good they are for me, but sometimes the stringy texture is just too much. They were bites of heaven in this recipe. The whole thing was just absolutely delicious. Funny story – Wednesdays around here make me feel like life is back to what it was before quarantine. Audrey has zoom dance at 5:15 pm and likes to eat beforehand, I often have school board meetings that start online at 5:30 pm, and Abe had a late afternoon call that ran over. So that meant that we all ate at different times. Well, this week my family is lucky there was chicken pot pie left for them because it was so good I could have eaten all of it.
We ended up getting take out a few times last week so some of my dinners got bumped to this week. The take out we got was from the Cactus Blue food truck and from Slopeside at Blue Mountain – the wings they offer on Fridays are smoked and are the best around! So here’s what we’re having in no particular order:
• Dumplings & Fried rice
• Pasta with Sausage and peppers
• Pancakes & bacon
• Mommy nuggets and Mac & cheese (more on this below)
• Flank steak
• Grilled chicken (p. 264 of Dinner: A Love Story)
I started making my own chicken nuggets when the boys were small and they immediately named them “Mommy nuggets” to distinguish them from the store bought kind. And full disclosure, our freezer is often stocked with the kind the come in the big bag from Costco also for when we need a meal or lunch in a pinch. No judgement if those are your jam!
Here’s how I make my own:
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Spray a sheet pan with cooking spray.
• Set up a breading station – one shallow dish with egg, another with bread crumbs (use seasoned, or if you have plain add some garlic and onion salts, oregano, basil, parsley and parmesan cheese)
• Cut 3-4 chicken breasts into large chunks
• Roll chunks one by one through the egg and then the breading, lining them up on the sheet pan when done.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes checking the temp of the biggest piece at the end to ensure a temp of at least 165 degrees.
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