Sam is now taking evening Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes in the city every night, which means he won't be home until 8:30 or 9:30 depending on the night. This means I am not going to be cooking anything elaborate since I will be eating alone and then re-heating it for Sam.
So now I want stuff that's *easy* and healthy. But just because I now want dinner to be extra simple to prepare, I didn't want to skimp on the flavor. So for last night's dinner, I made the protein simple and used my farm box produce for inspiration and tons of flavor.
We got our latest organic farm box on Tuesday (I now get it every other week) - it had lacinato
kale, cauliflower, broccoli, assorted citrus (lemon, limes, blood oranges, mandarins, and navel oranges), fuji and pink lady apples, garlic, 2 tomatoes (from Mexico) and sweet potatoes.
I decided to heat up in the oven a boneless skinless chicken breast that we had bought already pre-cooked & frozen. 425 degrees in the oven for 18 minutes. I flipped it halfway through and squeezed a little bit of lime juice on it.
We still had avocados from our previous farm box (they were very unripe when we got them but were now about to be overripe). I thought about making a guacamole, but the blood oranges (one of my faves) from this week's box were too irresistible!!! I made a simple "relish" of diced avocado and blood orange with a little salt and lime juice and put that on top of the chicken breast to add a burst of flavor, vitamins and minerals, and a little healthy fat. I served it with steamed organic broccoli that I drizzled with a simple meyer lemon-dijon vinaigrette that had less than 1/2 teaspoon of canola oil (in addition to the juice from one meyer lemon, teaspoon of dijon, salt, pepper). I did that just to liven up the broccoli a bit.
Sam said he was expecting something really simple (read: boring) but was pleasantly surprised with my addition of the avocado/blood orange relish. Yay! Success. Stay tuned for more.
And I promise to post with pictures. Last night he was just too famished to make him wait and take a picture!
Then I
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