Out of the Box. Thin as paper. (Week 7: 2/13- 2/19)

Sometimes you just want a change. Since I started on this journey, I have made a habit of having certain food materials on hand. Some of which are flour, oil, butter, chicken, cream cheese, pasta and such. After a while, it seems that what you can do with these materials are limited  i.e the recipes become redundant. I definitely was feeling that way and I did not want to see another stir fry or another baked chicken with garlic and black pepper. But what to do?! I did not want to fry the chicken either. So I was browsing my fave recipe site  “allrecipes.com”, I was reading about some interesting things people do with cream crease, sour cream, butter and lime. All of which I had. I read a few different recipes and I pulled from each recipe a component I would like my chicken to “express”. To start off, I melted some butter and added some freshly squeezed lemon juice. I then added broccoli to the simmering melted butter and allowed the butter to cook the brocoli. I added sour cream and cream cheese to this mixture. The mixture was then placed in the fridge to chill. I tenderized some thawed chicken breast and seasoned it. The chilled mixture was rolled up in each slice of chicken breast. This rolled up chicken breast, which is held together with a toothpick, was dipped into beaten egg and was then browned on the stove. After browning, the chicken rolls were placed in the oven. There were some chicken pieces left over because they were not large enough to be rolled up. Since I had some of the broccoli mixture and beaten egg left over as well, I decided to bake the chicken pieces with the remaining mixture. This resulted in two different kind of chicken and I must say, both were very enjoyable. I made a side of tomato and pepper linguine to complement the lemony, veggie, cream cheesy, sour creamy-ness of the chicken. The yum-vidence is below.

So on Saturday night I had an intense craving for crepes. I blame this craving on the excessive amount of stress I have been under. Work, school, life can certainly make you want to eat. I wanted to reward myself for all my hard work ( forrealz!). I actually wanted to make crepes about 2 weeks ago but there was a flour situation at walmart that got in the way. Anyhoo, I went to my trust recipe site, allrecipes.com (<--- This site is the awesome!) and got a fairly simple crepe recipe that was accompanied by a cream cheese filling recipe for the crepe. Crepe are tough and easy to make. The easy part is throwing all the ingredients into the blender and pressing blend. Oh about that, I learned a very important lesson concerning blending dry stuff the blender. If u need to blend dry and wet materials, put the wet material in the blender first. Why do you think I say that? (answer below in the comment section if u so please). Anyway, after the blending process has taking place, you are left with this salt and extremely thin liquid mixture. Get yo pans out son! I used a small pan so that it wil be easier to control the shape of my crepe. Let the pan heat up under medium heat and once it is hot enough, spray some pam on that joint! ( or in my case, some great value cooking spray hehe). Pour about 1/8 cup of your mixture into the pan, from the side. Immediately move your pan in a semicircular motion in both directions to get a thing flat circular structure. Bam! There goes yo crepe girl! (boy!) But seriously, there you have it. As I mentioned, I used made some cream cheese filling to complement my crepe.It basically contained cream cheese, confectioners sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla extract. It was goood but I am not a fan of too sweet stuff so next time I make it, it will be with half the sugar but double the love! hehe!

This week I really stepped out of my comfort zone with these dishes and I am getting closer to being ready to entertain! Stay tuned folks!