Friday night, 5:15 p.m. In my refrigerator at this moment, about to go bad: three zucchini, one head of broccoli, one red pepper and two plum tomatoes. Not in my refrigerator: any defrosted meat. I vow to search the Web for a recipe that uses all of these items. With beans or shrimp. I shall report back.
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Night 1 – March 17
Day 1 of my dinner-making mission. As of this writing, the mission is a secret even to Hubby, so I will not post it for nearly a week.
At 5:40 p.m., I was forced to conclude that if I didn’t start dinner soon, hubby would come home to no food, marking yet another day that had passed during which I did nothing useful around the house, and did not earn any income, either.
I entered the kitchen, determined to figure out what to make for dinner. It didn’t go well. I selected a chicken with feta cheese recipe, but found I lacked a crucial ingredient (lemons). I wigged out on a chicken fricassee which had waaay to many ingredients for unsupervised cooking (although I had most of them in the house). I did a search for something to do with a calabaza I had impetuously purchased that weekend, but came up with nothing but complicated chicken fricassees. I debated making something with shrimp, but the shrimp weren’t defrosted, and defrosting takes time.
When I started going through my recipe books (I do have a few), everything seemed complicated. By this point, it was 6:30. Hubby could be home any minute, and I hadn’t even started dinner. I heated up the oven, with no idea what for.
I finally settled on chicken, zucchini and prosciutto from Real Simple magazine. By the way, I had no prosciutto, but hoped it wouldn’t hurt the recipe. I also set aside several other recipes which sounded good, but for which I was lacking ingredients. I thought I might pick up those when I went grocery shopping (which I also have not done alone in years).
Link to the recipe I used:
Chicken, Zucchini, and Prosciutto
