Saturday Night Cooking #2 ...Kinda

So, Instead of waiting to make dinner on  Monday.. Brandon was over today, So.... we I made dinner for us tonight.This was the second meal in the Betty Crocker 20 minutes or less section.

The Meal
- Crispy Potato Chip Chicken
With Steam Cheese and Broccoli and Mashed Potatoes
and Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio

 Lay's Potato Chips with Parsley and Egg mixed with Worcestershire Sauce

 The Chicken "breaded"

Placing the chicken onto the pan

Cooking the chicken

The Finished Product.

Overall the meal was good, although next i will substitute the Original Lays with BBQ or Sour Cream to give it a little more flavor. The Broccoli and Cheese was yummy as well as the mashed potatoes. Also, since this was a quick meal, I used instant mashed potatoes from Idahoan, they are SO yummy, inexpensive and really quick to make. Brandon and enjoyed the meal and will try the more flavored version next time.

Monday Night Cooking #1

The Story
While watching Julie & Julia... I decided that I wanted to cook my way through a cook book and for Christmas my Dads girlfriend Susan, got me a Betty Crocker Cookbook, the way it is set up makes it hard to really cook through, but I will manage. Given I have limited funds at the moment I have limited this cooking experiment to Monday nights as of now. This being that Monday nights are the only night that My fiance and I are really both free. So last night I begun looking through the cook book and decided I would start in the very back at 20 minute or Less Meals. I opened the section and started with the first meal. The first meal being Maple and Pecan Chicken. I was hesitant at first given that I am extremely picky, however the goal of this whole thing was to get my fiance and I to try new foods. Then reading the whole recipe I realized that the pecans where used more for flavoring and that i didn't have to eat them along with the food and I was happy to try this meal haha. So, I went shopping got what I needed, put on my cool apron that my Cousin Selina got me for Christmas and began cooking. 

The Meal
Maple and Pecan Chicken
with Yellow Rice, Buttered Peas
and Menage a Trois White Wine
 

 Putting the Chicken Breast into the pan of melted butter and salt.

 Just opening up the jar of pecans... notice my CUTE apron

 Browning my chicken breasts in maple syrup and pecans

 Browned Chicken and yellow rice boiling in the back.

 The dinner table all set up.

 The Final Product.

The Rating

When Brandon heard what the meal was.. he was hesitant to eat the chicken, but once we both ate the chicken, we were happy campers and enjoyed the whole meal. We would most definitely eat it again

If you would like the recipe just ask me = )