Showing posts with label smokey applewood rub. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smokey applewood rub. Show all posts

6.12.2012

cobb salad time!

so tonight, neither one of us is that hungry, so we're making a cobb salad, slightly modified. if you're interested in the traditional, here's the wiki on cobb salad!

ingredients:
romaine lettuce about 3 cups
grape tomatoes to your liking
bacon (3 strips cooked crispy)
1 small red onion
1 avocado sliced
1 chicken breast
croutons
blue cheese dressing

directions:
1. place room temperature egg in a saucepan, cover about 1" above egg with water, cover with lid and bring to a boil. once boiling, remove from heat or reduce heat to low and set timer for 14 minutes, unless you have larger eggs, then increase to 17 minutes (here's a great article on hard boiled eggs, thanks to what's cooking america)
2. meanwhile, cook bacon as you like (pan fry, microwave, oven) until cripsy.
3. while bacon is cooking, cook chicken breast. i cooked mine in my round covered baker, 5 minutes on each side in the mircowave! for fun, i added a little of The Pampered Chef's smokey applewood seasoning
4. as things finish cooking you can prep the cold portion of the salad by rinsing and chopping your lettuce, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado.
5. plate lettuce and vegetables first, then top with egg, bacon, chicken and croutons, dressing on the side

enjoy this quick and easy dinner with some toasted bread or solo.



tip: cut your avocado in half, remove pit and place the avocado skin side down on the cutting board. slice the avocado evenly. remove skin by laying the slice on its side and tracing the skin with a good paring knife.

4.05.2012

Date Night

dinner and a movie
netflix just delivered the green lantern and we had two nice angus ribeye steaks in the fridge. since the weather broke this afternoon, we decided we'd fire up the grill and have a nice date night! :-)

we had dinner is less than 30 minutes, here's how:

2 steaks, seasoned with sea salt and pampered chef smokey applewood rub
fresh steamed broccoli
frozen southwest style sweet potatoes with corn and black beans
fresh french bread

so i seasoned the steaks and nick grilled them. he's still working on perfecting beef, but they were pretty good. while nick grilled, i baked the bread ($0.99 special; take and bake at kroger); steamed the broccoli; and heated up the frozen side dish. if you haven't tried the alexia frozen items yet, check them out. they are not any more expensive than other brands and they are all natural and come in some great flavors. they also make the chipolte flavored sweet potato fries i love!



dinner was perfect, the green lantern was not too shabby. all in all, a wonderful thursday night with my husband and cute little pup.