July 20, 2009

Last Minute Dinner





Grilled Chicken Breasts with Fresh Tomatoes
Whole Wheat Spaghetti with light Mushroom Sauce & Fresh Diced Tomatoes
Homemade Garlic Bread
Last night, we had been traveling and returned home fairly late. We decided to go for whatever was in the freezer- so chicken it was.
The chicken was thawed (in cold water in the sink), seasoned with pepper, and then browned in the skillet with some olive oil that I recently spiced up with whole cloves of garlic and some hot chiles. The oil has a hot finish, but a light garlic start. It really added some flavor to those basic chicken breasts.


The best part of this dinner was the sauce- it was a basic 'pasta' sauce, but spiced up with some mushrooms, 1/2 tablespoon of butter, and the large diced tomatoes were added at the last minute so that they were hot, but not soft. It was delicious.

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