Best Chicken for a Weeknight

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts...$1.99 per pound....is there anyway to make these quick, easy, moist and flavorful... I turned to one of my favorite recipe websites:

http://www.allrecipes.com

and found the answer with Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken.

I cut the jumbo breasts in half lengthwise...they probably weren't a health product...pumped full of steroids..but nonetheless this simple preparation yielded a very tasty dish.

I served this with a "Greek Salad" using the organic greens mix from Costco, sliced English cucumber, grape tomatoes, feta, greek olives dressed with lemon juice a splash of red wine vinegar, olive oil and a few grindss of sea salt.

Frozen green beans from Trader Joe's rounded out the meal. Cooked per the package directions, drained, tossed with olive oil and a few grinds of sea salt.

All of this took about 20 minutes to prepare.

Frozen Food

I try to make frozen food my friend. Tonight we sampled Oliverie brand cheese tortellini from Costco...more preferable than the Kirkland cheese ravioli we ate last week. If I would have read the ravioli package, I wouldn't have bought it because it contains goat cheese...intolerable to two of our diners, one being me!
Frequently with pasta, I serve a simple Caesar salad (from an Everyday Food recipe)...romaine lettuce dressed with appx. 1/3 cup lite mayo, 1/2 of a lemon juiced, a few dashes of worcestershire and freshly grated parmesan cheese. I usually mix the dressing in the salad bowl, then add the lettuce and toss.
Diners who don't enjoy greens ate leftover carrot salad from the previous evening. I started making this after we went on a trip to Austria. This type of salad was on the salad bar every night. I shred a lot of carrots in the food processor and make a dressing of 2/3 cup vegetable oil, 1/3 cup white vinegar,2 teaspoons or so of sugar, 1 teaspoon or so of salt (salt and sugar to taste). The kids love this. Sugar + veggies. It's a win-win.