I have been really bad about going grocery shopping and cooking. When I don't have free weekends we don't have food. Since I've been doing my long runs on Mondays and then a short run and Zumba on Tuesdays, there is just no time to shop. Plus, after doing a 10k on Sunday and then doing another 10k on Monday night with Emmy, I was hobbling around because my knees were killing me. By Wednesday, however, I was tired of eating left overs and not cooking. I stopped at Sprouts before heading home to pick up something good to eat. It was our early Valentine's Day dinner as I was planning on going Zumba on V-day. Nick wanted to make me a romantic dinner, but my Zumba instructor was going to a Zumba conference so she was having a substitute who works in a gym. She had said that the substitute was faster paced so I really wanted to see if I'd like another instructor. Now that I'm getting in better shape, doing Zumba with older ladies isn't very challenging anymore.
I picked up a small chicken, cauliflower and spinach fettuccine. I texted Nick the three ingredients I bought and his response was "yum". I love that I can tell him the raw ingredients and he has an idea of what is going to come of it.
The chicken turned out pretty well. I stuffed it with thin slices of lemon, garlic and rosemary from my little herb garden. I also put a little bit of each under the skin to penetrate the flesh. We let it roast for about an hour. The top wasn't as nice and brown as I would have liked since the lemons were placed on the skin. I had taken them off, but then the tallest part of the chicken looked like it was starting to burn. I took out our brulee-er and we started crisping up the skin. It wasn't exactly the traditional way of getting the skin crispy, but it worked all the same and Nick had a good time playing with fire.
No comments:
Post a Comment