Sunday – Scrappy Tidbits

Here we are again and it’s time for dinner!Tonight, we took it easy and I had everyone make their own sandwiches.Because I don’t want to spend a month buying or making bread, I got some sub rolls, and decided to make some pasta salad.Since the husband and I are both overweight, we are trying to be careful with what we eat, I wanted it to be delicious and tasty.We spoke today about cutting out things like white bread and rice, etc.I have really been thinking about pasta salad, though, so I decided I’d make it with whole wheat pasta.Here’s what you’ll need:

1 package whole wheat rotini pasta

1/2 bunch asparagus chopped

3-4 green onions, chopped

Cherry tomatoes, halved

2 carrots chopped

3-4 cloves garlic, diced

6 leaves basil, chopped

1/2 C dressing

Here’s what I did:

Boil pasta according to package directions, drain and rinse with cool water. Set aside.

While pasta is cooking, heat up a little olive oil in a skillet, saute vegetables and garlic for a few minutes, season to your liking. I used fresh ground pepper, dried basil. Mix vegetables with pasta and add your dressing.

In addition, I really wanted some peaches and mangoes. So I grabbed a bunch of peaches and a mango. My daughter and I are the only ones that’ll eat the mangoes, so I just got one. I cut up the mango, 1 peach and a bunch of strawberries. Just mixed them up. I didn’t add any sugar or sauce.

I was going to start by saying, “I like to cook”, but honestly sometimes cooking is a pain.There are days when I take a specific thing out for dinner with the hope that my husband will grill it.There are days when the kids request something and I would rather repeat third grade with Miss Lacey than cook what they ask for. Heck, there are days I don’t even want to cook what I’ve been wanting to eat for dinner all day long.Then there are days like today. We have chicken breasts and chicken thighs. So we just had to decide how we wanted it cooked.All day long, I was thinking my husband would grill it. That totally would have happened if not for the fact that the wind was pretty bad.The fact that we spent the better part of the day digging holes (and falling in one), and dropping posts to replace the gate on the goat pen didn’t help matters any.I bought a box of Corn Flakes yesterday. We are talking Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. The almost $4 size box.I joked with my daughter that it was for cooking, as normally, whichever child is with me gets to choose the cereal. We get two bags, the Malt O Meal bags, and one has to be something that isnt rainbow fruit cereal. Yesterday there were two with me. My only stipulation was that we could not get the peanut butter cereal.When I got the cereal, I thought I’d use it to make fried chicken.Well… that’s what I made. Oven Fried Chicken. It was gooood!

Here’s what I used: (keep in mind I’m feeding 3 grown men, my 17.5 year old daughter and myself)

1 pack chicken drumsticks (there were 16 in the pack I made)

2.5-3 c Corn Flakes

1 c Flavored bread crumbs

Garlic Powder

Dried minced onion

Salt and pepper

A gallon sized freezer bag that you can close really well.

Heat oven to 400°

Prepare a 9×13″ pan by spraying with the cooking spray of your choice. Alternatively, you could also use butter, just melt it a little in the pan.

Place the Corn Flakes in the plastic bag. Crush the flakes. I used a rolling pin.

Add bread crumbs and seasonings. I don’t really measure, but I probably used about a tbsp of the onion and garlic and maybe a tsp of salt and pepper. Mix it all together

Crack the eggs into a bowl and mix them up. Dredge the chicken in the egg mix and then place in the bag with corn flakes mixture. I put about half in the bag then shook it up to coat the chicken pieces. Arrange chicken pieces in the pan. Repeat for remaining pieces. Cook chicken at 400° for 40 minutes, turn chicken and continue to cook for approximately 20-30 minutes.

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Sunday Dinner

Sunday Dinner