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I am so proud of the dinner I made tonight! When it's been a bad week and I'm exhausted from working a ten hour day it felt so wonderful to come home, work on ignoring my evil upstairs neighbors who are blairing their TV, and cook a lovely dinner (that was actually healthy to boot).
I also bought a bottle of wine, found some really beautiful miniture roses (bunch of 20 something for $4 at kroger!) and found sara lee pies for $1.50 each (bought a key lime and a chocolate cream). :-D
So yeah...for dinner (which is the entire reason I posted) I made:
baked chicken breast (bought them already seasoned from kroger $2!)
organic gnocchi (potato, spinach, and tomato) that I then sauted in a little olive oil with sweet summer corn, fresh snap peas, and fire roasted tomatoes. Added some italian seasoning and red wine to it.
after I cooked the chicken I let it stew for a min in the gnocchi mix just after I added the red wine. Chicken came out juicy and perfectly cooked. It had been ages since I had good gnocchi.
Now I've got Buffy season 5 in the dvd player. A hot bath in my future. And either a glass of red wine or some cider after that while I read in bed.
It's a homebody night. Nothing fancy or sexy or flashy but right now, today, it's making me blissfully happy.
I also bought a bottle of wine, found some really beautiful miniture roses (bunch of 20 something for $4 at kroger!) and found sara lee pies for $1.50 each (bought a key lime and a chocolate cream). :-D
So yeah...for dinner (which is the entire reason I posted) I made:
baked chicken breast (bought them already seasoned from kroger $2!)
organic gnocchi (potato, spinach, and tomato) that I then sauted in a little olive oil with sweet summer corn, fresh snap peas, and fire roasted tomatoes. Added some italian seasoning and red wine to it.
after I cooked the chicken I let it stew for a min in the gnocchi mix just after I added the red wine. Chicken came out juicy and perfectly cooked. It had been ages since I had good gnocchi.
Now I've got Buffy season 5 in the dvd player. A hot bath in my future. And either a glass of red wine or some cider after that while I read in bed.
It's a homebody night. Nothing fancy or sexy or flashy but right now, today, it's making me blissfully happy.