Anyway, as I was on my own I found myself with NOTHING to watch. There was nothing good on tv tonight. I ended up watching Top Chef and it was about Improv. They went to Second City for a night of Improv and people yelled out colors, ingredients and emotions and that became the challenge. So some people got orange turned on asparagus, another group got purple depressed bacon, etc.
Usually when I'm home alone I don't cook anything, I just warm something up because usually things, like meat, are packaged for more than a single serving. But tonight I was inspired. I got all creative. I had individual wrapped chicken breasts from perdue so i defrosted one and seasoned it with salt and freshly ground pepper (my new favorite spice) and cooked it in a pan. Meanwhile I had one red potato just sitting there so i cut it into pieces, tossed it with some olive oil and sprinkled it with salt and freshly ground pepper and popped it in a 450 degree oven. Then I thought you know with all this pepper it might get too spicy. I need something sweet to cut through the spice. So I'm like..what do I have? Bananas? Apples? So I cut up half of a red delicious apple (skin off) and cooked it in a cinnamon and sugar reduction. Baked apples. They came out all soft in a thick sugary syrup. Then when the chicken was done cooking I took it out of the pan and in the same pan I added a bit of olive oil and threw in some baby spinach. I tossed it with a little bit of salt and let it cook just until the spinach wilted. Then I took it out of the pan and topped the chicken with it. Then I plated it all. And you know what? It was delicious!!!! And not only that but it was the perfect portion. I actually wish I had more. yum.
And it was beautiful. Check it out.
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