Tuesday Night Dinner

I should really change the title of this blog since I no longer am a vegetarian, but for now it will have to stay as it is. This was dinner tonight, thanks to inspiration from the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten (links to recipes in the menu post below). Weeknight cooking can be stressful for me, especially if I'm craving Indian food since my favorite cuisine can take a lot of preparation and have lengthy cooking times. I'm always on the lookout for fast, delicious, well-rounded meals. I experience great joy when I am able to pull this off successfully. It can turn around an otherwise bad day, or be a great ending for an already great day (today, unfortunately, it was a case of the former). The picture on the right is my joy today. I followed the salad recipe to the letter. I changed a couple of things in the chicken recipe. I used skinned thighs instead of skin-on breasts because I prefer dark meat and I used about a third of the butter required for the sauce. I would reduce the lemon juice in the chicken sauce just a little next time (the reduced butter probably affected this). The green beans were sauteed in butter with salt, pepper, and grated parmagiano cheese. The cheese cooked (slightly burned) and added a nice crunch to the beans. The roll is Trader Joe's Parmesan Rosemary rolls. My favorite part of the meal was the salad. The dressing on the salad is phenomenal.

Comments

Shan said…
This looks simple and delicious! I'll have to try shredding an apple in my salad sometime. I quite often make a dressing similar to that one, but long ago made the switch to honey or agave and my palette hasn't noticed a huge difference. Unfortunately, I don't have a good sugar to honey substitution amount in my head--I usually just guess. *chuckling. I can see why you reduced the butter! What kind of white wine did you use? :)
3:16 PM
Meghna said…
Hi! I used a dry, white table wine. I think it was a chardonnay blend. The dressing is so simple and delicious. I usually like more things in a salad, but I hate messing with this one. And for me, reducing the butter made the sauce a little too tart, but a friend of mine tried it the next day in lab and she loved it that tart.
6:02 PM
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