Chicken Parm and French Bread
Guess what we had for dinner tonight? Yup, chicken parm and french bread. And guess who made it? Yup, yours truly, amazingly enough.
The Hubby was gone all week – business trip – and was forced to eat restaurant food all week. Dinners here at home were simple: tacos for The Boy all week (he was so happy!) and whatever I felt like for myself. So I felt like I should do some cooking.
Of course, I didn’t get too carried away. I mean, I made the French bread from scratch, sure, but the chicken parm was practically no work at all. I found a great website, A Year of Crockpotting, for the chicken recipe. She said I could use frozen chicken, and that’s what I had. Unfortunately, it was a massive bunch of frozen chicken, so dipping in egg wash and then bread crumbs was less than 100% successful. I did the best I could, and it turned out alright. Some of the chicken was a bit dry, but that could have been from using the “quick” 3 to 4 hour method on high as opposed to the preferred 6 to 8 hours on low.
I turned to Home Ec 101 for the bread recipe. Heather posted a recipe for hoagie rolls, and there was a link for a french bread recipe. So I pulled it up and made 2 loafs – BY HAND – of wonderful, warm, delicious french bread for my honey bunny.
While I was making it, I searched for a recipe for rosemary bread. And I found what looks to be a keeper. I don’t know if I have ever mentioned it, but this summer I purchased some herbs and grew them out in a planter on the deck. And one of those herbs was a rosemary plant. I’ve used some of it, but not as much as I thought I would. So this will be a great way to use some of it up.
I was thinking of making soup and bread for our movie night on Friday. It’s our turn to host. So I have to come up with a dinner plan (well, I kind of already decided, now I just have to figure out what kind of soup!) and we have to narrow down a movie choice. It’s hard to decide between something we’ve seen and like or something we haven’t seen. We do have Vantage Point to watch, but we are thinking about some older movies that we like. I guess we will make a final decision about two minutes before we watch!