Chicken and Salad

Pictures don't do this justice. My salad was delicious. I bought organic greens on sale today and layered it with rotisserie chicken, mandarin oranges, cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, celery, Chinese noodles and some Asian sesame dressing.

Cate liked it. My other daughter is sick so she only ate the oranges.

I'm really craving the dressing at this Japanese steakhouse we love but nothing I buy at the store even comes close.

Chinese (at home)

Chinese noodles with veggies in them and egg rolls. Two nights of no meat. Easy dinner because we went to a late playdate today.

The girls had applesauce on the side.

My husband had to grill himself a burger. So we actually had two dinners going on but that's what I fed the kids (and me).

Broccoli Chicken Pasta

This is a recipe I used to make when I wasn't vegetarian and it's one of those crockpot things that is super easy. So I'll give you both versions below (the vegetarian and non-vegetarian version).

Broccoli Chicken Pasta















Vegetarian Version
Broccoli
Cream of Broccoli Soup
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Milk
Veggie Chicken Breast (We use Quorn)
Pasta of your choice

Steam the broccoli until almost done. Add in the cans of soup and a little milk until thin enough to put over pasta. Toss the Quorn chicken breast in the oven and cook until done. Boil up the pasta until done.

Mix the pasta with the soup mixture and top with a chicken breast.

Non-Vegetarian Version
Need all the same stuff as above

Take RAW (thawed) chicken breasts and add a bit of pepper to each side. Place raw chicken breasts into a crockpot. In a bowl mix together the soups, broccoli and a bit of milk until thin. Toss it on top of the chicken breasts in the crock pot and put on medium heat all day long. This makes the most tender and moist chicken breasts I've *ever* had.

If you don't have a crockpot and are short on time, you can put the raw chicken breasts topped with the soup mixture into a baking dish and bake at 400F until the chicken is done. It's about what? 45 minutes? I have no idea since I haven't cooked meat in years.

Then when it comes out of the crockpot (or oven) just top the pasta with the chicken breasts and spoon a little extra of the soup "sauce" over the pasta.

ENJOY!

Night Out

This Thursday soccer thing is killing me because it's from 6:30 - 7:30 and I had to get gas afterwards and by the time I left the soccer field and got gas it was like 10 to 8. So we decided to eat out which I hadn't intended on doing but it was nice.

We went to Moe's Southwest Grill. It's sort of like a Subway but for Mexican food. You order it and then point to what you want on it and they hand it to you on a plastic tray. Good food, reasonable prices, overall fairly healthy.

If you have one in your area I suggest checking them out. They have lots of vegetarian options and, of course, non vegetarian ones as well.