Tuesday, June 30, 2009

EASY AND LIGHT SNACKS

--HERB GRILLED CHIICKEN AND STUFF... I'm in the early weeks of culinary school and one night we recieved like 15 different fresh herbs to take home and smell and try and use. If you haven't done this, try it. I had so many I wanted to use them so I simply chopped up a bunch that smelled like they would work together and added some garlic, salt n pep and lots of olive oil with a bit of lemon zest and juice for acidity. This made one of the best marinades. Anyway grilled chicken is a great leftover and I love hummus and pita (set under broiler to crisp) and I had some tomato so this made a great quick afternoon meal. Nothing to it, just thought I'd share. This little cup of joy is also a quick go-to snack/breakfast/dessert. Seriously nothing new but if you haven't tried frozed blueberries with yogurt and granola you're missing out. I think fresh blueberries are kinda rubbery and hard to come by and expensive, so this obvioulsy helps with all that. I like to use vanilla lowfat yogurt and adding a bit of lemon zest wouldn't hurt either. Its quick and tasty and also satisfies a sweet tooth.


Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Ironically since I've started culinary school I have had no time to cook or even blog but don't you worry, I will have MANY new ideas and things to post as soon as I can get a few extra days in the kitchen, I'm missing it!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Pasta de provence?

Not sure what to call this, and no its not the healthiest thing. BUT it could be IF I had used whole wheat past and skipped the bread stick. (this is linguini) There are lots of colorful veggies and grilled chicken in there. No white sauce, just some olive oil, lemon zest, parmesan and basil. The veggies were roasted with garlic and herbs de provence, an awesome dried herb mix, and of course kosher salt and pep. The tomatoes (cherrubs) are lightly roasted in a balsamic dressings and then topped with some more, mmm mmm. (this was my first catering job)