Thursday, June 7, 2012

Summer is here!!!

My apologies again for the lack of posting lately, but finals and the school year are over and there are two months ahead waiting to be filled with food! This Summer I have a lot of food-related projects to share with you! I have compiled some exciting cookbooks  including how to's for macarons, new meat entrĂ©es, and summer salads! The first project I have undertaken is cooking dinners for my family! This corresponds with my wanting to make money for travel this Summer and my mom offered $20 per meal for four people.
Last night, I made Barefoot Contessa's Parmesan Chicken and a side salad with her Lemon Vinaigrette.
Basically, the recipe is just chicken breasts which you pound with a meat mallet to thin and then bread with flour, egg, and I chose to make homemade breadcrumbs. They were great, but I was not as big a fan of the salad dressing. It was fine but I much prefer my dad's dijonaise, or dijon mustard dressing. I then followed it with big chocolate chip cookies which I used to make homemade vanilla ice cream sandwiches! All of these recipes are easily accessible in a Barefoot Contessa cookbook, or, for the cookies, on a nestle chocolate chip's package. They are also on foodnetwork.com if you don't have Ina Garten's  Family Style cookbook.

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