A Tale of Two and a Half Dinners

After I picked Maya up from school, picked up the dry cleaning, read Maya about 20 books at the library, and gave her a bath, Maya said she wanted to eat. Stat.  Of course dinner wasn’t ready and when she asked why I told her it was because I’d been doing my nails since picking her up from school.  She thought for a second and then said “so what’s for dinner?” 

I think my sarcasm is a bit much for a four-year-old to understand.

With limited time and even fewer groceries I made what Ali now calls Greek Style Chicken Parmigiano.  Sounds like a bad mix of two very distant cuisines, doesn’t it?  But it turned out surprisingly well.

I sautéed some organic chicken breast in olive oil, added some tomato sauce and then shredded the chicken.  I put a dollop of hummus (hommos?) on some Trader Joe’s Arabic bread, added some organic spinach and mozzarella cheese and put the whole thing in the oven at 400 degrees for 5 minutes. 

When dinner was ready 15 minutes later Maya had already eaten a banana and an apple so she barely ate half of her “chicken sandwich.” 

As a side dish I roasted some sliced zucchini in olive oil and baked it at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.

Since I don’t eat chicken or bread I decided to make myself some salmon instead.  I used my foolproof Salmon Marinade but divided it by four to make enough for just one piece of fish:

Salmon Marinade

1/2 Tablespoon of plain mustard
1/2 Tablespoon of soy sauce
1/4 Tablespoon of olive oil
1/4 Tablespoon of apricot jam
1 Tablespoon of capers
1/4 of a medium onion

Combine the first 4 ingredients and pour over the salmon. Sprinkle the sliced onion and capers over the top and at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

Before:

After – served over a bed of spinach:

My photography is getting better, isn’t it?  Okay so just humor me.

Although this was delicious I wasn’t very hungry tonight so I just ate about half of this with some zucchini.  I asked Ali to remind me how much I love this salmon so I can break away from the scrambled eggs rut that I am in.  I saw him put a note in his iPhone.  Seriously, he really did.  But he’ll probably forget he did, so I’m sure I’ll be back to eating scrambled eggs again soon enough.

Have a good night!