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[geekchick]

Argh! Nothing quite like trying to make chicken parmesan and finding out that the mozzarella you know you bought last night (not least because it's on the receipt) didn't appear to have actually made it home with you. Grump. I'm sending my minion out to fetch some on his way back from the vitamin store, so it's not a complete loss. Too bad I'd already put the pasta on to boil before I noticed or I could've gone myself earlier. [Edit: the cheese has been found, sitting underneath a bag of onions on the cart next to the refrigerator, where it's been since roughly 10:00 last night. D'oh!]

Once the all-important cheese gets here, tonight's dinner experiment, thanks to the Wegmans flyer:

Whole wheat pasta tossed with olive oil, garlic, butter and Penzey's Italian herb blend, and chicken parmesan (without breading).

Take two skinless, boneless chicken breasts and flatten to roughly 1/4 inch. (Or for the lazy, like myself, get the thin-cut breasts and skip the meat tenderizer mallet step.) Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a skillet on medium-high until it's faintly smoking, lightly dust the chicken with a flour/salt/pepper mix and add it to the skillet. The recipe says to turn them after 3-4 minutes, but the ones I was using were pretty well ready to turn before that. Put them in a shallow baking dish, drizzle with marinara sauce and shredded mozzarella and bake at 350 for about 10 minutes until the cheese melts.

Comments

[gsh]

You have a minion? :)

[geekchick]

I'm sure I'm going to get thwacked for phrasing it that way, but yeah. ;)

[gsh]

Thwacked by nminusone?

[geekchick]

Once he notices. =)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Hmm... do you secretly *want* to be thwacked? In some locations? (ducking)

[geekchick]

Not particularly, no.

[gsh]

Assuming he notices, don't you mean? :)

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

She has a whole bunch of them.

She was trying to buy one the other night, just one, but the store didn't have any single minions, unless you wanted to buy a giant sweet minion. The only other choice was to get a big bag of minions, so that's what happened. Now if any problem comes up, you just throw minions at it. It's enough to make you cry.

I think there's a saying: When your only tool is a minion, every problem looks like a suicide mission.

[gsh]

What does she do, get her minions from Costco?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

See, you should've asked the Cheese Weasel for mozzarella, then you'd know you'd have it. ;-)

[geekchick]

But the Cheese Weasel brought me Manchego instead. And I knew I had it, as I clearly remember throwing it into my basket and it's on my receipt. I hope it didn't fall out of a bag and under a seat in my car. Ew.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Manchego is a hard, room-temperature cheese (at least it was in Spain ;) so should be fine even if left under the car seat overnight. Although unlike the chicken, it would not be facilitated by being run over by the car beforehand...

[geekchick]

No, the manchego would've been fine. The mozzarella is not improved I think by leaving it out overnight.

And I am not going to back over my chicken in a car rather than using a meat tenderizer. =) (Remind me I don't want to eat chicken at your house. ;) )

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Another way to flatten breasts is to put them in double-bagged gallon-sized heavy ziplock bags, take them outside, and back the car over them once or twice... it is very quick, maybe a minute or two tops.

[geekchick]

Um. No.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Seriously, it sounds very good... other than the chicken parmesan recipe as quoted doesn't, er, use any parmesan? Unless that's implicitly sprinkled on it later when served.

[geekchick]

Most recipes I've seen use mozzarella with perhaps a sprinkling of parmesan later.