Semi-homemade Chicken and Salad with Elway's Seasoning

Hello! Today is one of those days where I am just hanging around the house before running errands and I decided to whip up a little lunch for myself! As you know if you read my Elway's artichokes post, I love their seasoning and the aioli that they serve with their grilled artichokes. So today, for lunch, I decided to use one of the pre-cooked rosemary chicken breasts that I got from Whole Foods and some leftover lettuce. I heated olive oil and rubbed the chicken breast, which has been in the fridge for a couple of days, with the Elway's seasoning. I then cooked it until the entire breast was warm and the outside was a little crispy with the herbs. I then sprinkled some more seasoning on it for extra flavor. For the salad, I just ripped up some romaine lettuce and made a dressing that was inspired by Elway's aioli that I am always talking about. I used about a tablespoon or two of olive oil and a teaspoon or two of the seasoning. I thickened the dressing with a teaspoon of dijon mustard and a teaspoon and a half of mayonnaise. I did not have any lemons handy, but if you do, squeeze a little bit of that in there too! I stirred that up and poured it over the lettuce and finished it off with some salt for my salad!

as you can tell, I couldn't even wait until after I took the picture to take a bite!
Bon Appetit!

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 entrées, 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.