Chicken Cutlets

Chicken cutlets are by far my favourite chicken dish. They are so easy to make and I found the best recipe on Food 52's website.

These herbed chicken cutlets dipped in panko and parmesan came out so crispy and tender they melt in your mouth. I snipped fresh rosemary, thyme and sage from my herb garden. Even in the middle of winter, the herbs tasted so fresh.

I served it with some mushroom risotto and sugar peas and broccoli steamed with butter. I wanted seconds, but resisted. I can say though that I ate the leftovers for lunch the next day and it was just as good to eat as it was when it was right out of the pan. I put the left over egg and panko with herbs in the pan at the end and made wonderful scrambled eggs. So delicious and crispy! I might make this as just eggs for breakfat one day with potatoes and bacon. Yum!

Back in the kitchen!

Tonight was the first night back in the kitchen after that horrendous infection from the cat bite on my finger.

I made something very simple - had to pace myself, but from scratch: marinara sauce and spaghetti. It was so yummy.

Last week I had roasted some roma tomatoes and put them in the freezer as I didn't have time to make the sauce right away. I pulled them out tonight and made some yummy sauce for my spaghetti. The trick to get a great tasting sauce is to cook slowly. I started out around 3:30 and ended around 7-ish.

Simple ingredients: olive oil, butter, onions, green, yellow and red peppers, roasted tomatoes, coarse salt, fresh cracked pepper, dried oregano and dried basil. It was a bit runny/watery after the first hour and a half, so I added a tin of tomato paste. It was heaven to eat! My husband had two helpings! I was tempted, but remembered my resolutions.

So, I'm back in the kitchen baby! And I love it. LOVE IT! Can't wait to cook something from my new cookbooks I got for Christmas.

I've attached some pics for you to enjoy!

One Week

It's been a week since I last posted. Let me bring you up to date.

Shortly after my last post, my cat had a seizure of some kind. We still don't know why, but she is fine. However, I thought she was choking and so stuck my finger down her throat and promptly got bitten - HARD.

That evening was spent in two different emergency rooms - the veterinary emergency and the people emergency.

I was in hospital till 3am receiving antibiotics intravenously and had to go in every day after that for three more days for IV. Now I'm taking the antibiotics in pill form and they make me woozy and ill.

Monsieur Cuisine, however, has stepped up to the plate (no pun intended there!) and has been cooking. Interesting to say the least, but he tries and that's what counts.

Our New Year's Eve dinner was mac and cheese with salad. Not bad and it was tasty. A pic below for you.

I am on the mend and hope to be cooking and sharing with you very soon!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Time for New Year's resolutions!

Today, my cute little niece came over and we had so much fun! I sent her home with a couple dozen cookies - apologies to my brother and sister-in-law for the sugar high I'm causing this evening!

Since it's almost New Year's I guess it's time to make some New Year's resolutions. Let's see....

1. Cook more - definitely!
2. Bake some more too! A given.
3. Exercise more to work off all the food I eat.
4. Blog a lot.

Ok. I think thats pretty good. Now to have some tea and cookies.

I know, I know, but I figure it's not New Year's yet! And I'm having fruit too so that cancels out the cookies, right?

Pizza! Homemade that is.

Tonight we made homemade pizza. There really could be no better. You cannot order this. It is so good. Maybe I haven't eaten enough pizza, but this is by far the best I've ever had.

Perhaps it's because I made it to my liking. I got what I wanted on it and more than enough sauce, toppings and cheese. No skimping here!

Maybe it tastes better because I made it myself; because I chose the ingredients, I made the dough, I put it all together. Cooked it to how I liked it and I got it FRESH out of the oven. Yes, it's all of the above. Best of all? I get to eat it again for lunch tomorrow. Mmmmmm!!!!

Breakfast masterpiece!

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I could eat it for lunch or dinner too. It is one of those meals that screams comfort all year round. You can make all types of breakfasts and the possibilities are endless.

This morning I made eggs on toast with strong, aged cheedar and half an avacado on the side. So yummy, filling and meets almost all food groups. How can you go wrong?

I've provided a lovely pic with this post of my masterpiece for today! It's almost a croque-madame - minus the ham and extra piece of bread.

Checkers anyone?

This evening I've continued with my Christmas baking and tonight, I made my hubby's favourite: checkerboard cookies! I got this recipe from Martha Stewart's website. I've been making these every Christmas since 2002 and there are never any left come New Year.

I did make a boo boo though when baking. I realized once I started cutting the cookies that I did not have any parchment paper. I thought though that they had enough butter in them (1 cup) they would be ok on my silver pan. Wrong! Some of them stuck fast. I was so mad at myself! But, I was able to get most of them up without too much damage. I've included a pic below.

Now, I better get them in the freezer and hide them deep in there if I expect to eat any on Christmas Day!