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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

[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? :)