Here's a fun, low-cal version of a popular summer dish.
The flavors are amazing!
Here we are and it's already August {my birthday month!}.
Once we've hit this corner of the summer things start to change around here. We leave for vacation in 4 days. School starts in a little over 3 weeks. Shopping for school supplies becomes a priority. You find your kids ending one sport only to start in another.
Oh, and did I mention school physicals?
Yeah, I spent 1.5 hours at the doctor's office yesterday with my three precious, darling and oh, did I forget to mention wild children who don't enjoy being stuck in a waiting room for 30 minutes? Listen kids, I didn't like it either. At one point it got so warm in there I started to dose off. When the doctor walked in she exclaimed, "Man it's warm in here!"
You think?
There is always that fun moment where she pulls up the growth chart for each of them. In your head you are thinking...are they healthy? Do I feed them the right foods? Can she tell that sometimes we eat popcorn for dinner?
In the end they were healthy. AND BIG. All three {with my youngest being slightly below the older two} being in the 97th percentile for height and weight. We have predicted heights for when they reach the age of 18 of 6'4, 5'9 and 5'7, respectively.
Giants, if you will.
Not surprising considering we aren't short people, but it does help to explain why I cannot keep an ounce of food in this house to last longer than a day.
For example, this chicken.
I made EIGHT PIECES. Eight glorious, delicious, fairly large pieces. That should feed five people right? Well, when the two older kids each want two, the husband eats two, I eat two and the little munchkin gets scraps of what's left...it's gone fast.
It was so good. So good!
It just might be my favorite dinner so far this summer. I wanted to lighten it up a bit as well, so I made a few changes. I swapped in whole wheat breadcrumbs instead of regular and when pan frying I simply gave the pan a light coat of cooking spray rather than a layer of cooking oil for them to soak in.
This resulted in a light, crispy chicken. And that topping???
Killer.
Unless you are living under a rock you know that bruschetta just screams summer. Fresh juicy tomatoes, sharp garlic and basil. That combination right there might be written on my tombstone. Throw in a drizzle of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon over the chicken and a balsamic glaze and I practically wet my pants.
And oh!
That balsamic glaze. Since I apparently DO live under a rock, it wasn't until about a month ago that I realized you could buy that darn stuff already bottled right there in the supermarket.
Goodbye to reducing my own on the stove! That stuff stung my nose hairs and made the house stink. This bottled stuff is fantastic.
Make this tonight!
