Herb Grilled Chicken
That few minutes yesterday really paid off today! Dinner took 15 minutes from start to finish!
The herb-marinated chicken came out great! All of the herbs - and the wine - were present, but none of them overpowered the flavor of the chicken. Starting with good chicken is the key. It seems that most times when one buys that massed produced commercial chicken nowadays, it's so flavorless that if you don't marinate or add some sort of sauce, you end up with a blah bird on your plate. A free range organic bird may cost more, but it's the difference between eating at McDonald's or eating at Le Bec-Fin. It's worth it.
To round out the dinner was a tortellini dish that tomorrow will make a great cold salad. While cooking up the tortellini, I cooked up some onions, garlic, Italian peppers, and mushrooms, and then added roasted tomatoes in oil, kalamata olives, and roasted red peppers. I then mixed the tortellini in with the veggies and called it good!
Who says they don't have time to cook?!?
Egg Coloring 101
Egg coloring is fun. And while you may not need a couple of kids in the house to color eggs... It helps!
Tradition since we moved back east is to have the kids over to color eggs the night before Easter. We get a few pizzas and settle in for a couple of hours of mess-making. Egg kits have changed little over the years... Oh... there's Star Wars kits, car-making kits, and every other theme one can imagine, but the basic is still there - color disks, the smell of vinegar, and the box that has the punch-out back to hold the eggs. I feel like Tevye singing "Tradition."
