Now I am not a person that likes change very much. Any person that knows me can attest to that. I am the same person whose mom packed him a peanut butter and jelly for lunch every day from about 7th grade until I graduated high school. (Here is more than you ever wanted to know about PB & J, probably my favorite combination of all time. Other favorite combos: Eminem and Jay-Z, Aaron Neville and Linda Rondstadt (I swear), and MJ and Pippen)
That being said, making new dishes was not in my comfort zone. But hey, you have to grow up sometime, right?
So I decided to try and make a chicken dish. Even though I am partial to red meat and noodles more than poultry, I thought that a change in food would be good for me. Plus, my mom said that cooking chicken was easy.
So I set off this afternoon, scoured the internet and blogosphere before settling on this: If I am going to make something new, I want the recipe to come from a pro.
I turned to the Food Network's big headed personality, Giada de Laurentiis. (And I don't mean big headed as in cocky. She seriously has an enormous head to body ratio.)
After looking through numerous recipes, I settled on Roasted Chicken with Balsamic Vinaigrette. (The name makes it sound a lot fancier than it is.)
I would explain how I made it, but I just followed this recipe, with a few changes. I just bought four chicken breasts instead of a whole chicken and kind of ignored the whole chicken broth part.
Well, it turned out to be quite a success. The chicken was delicious and I even had my roommates verify that it tasted great.
The chicken was not difficult to cook at all, consisting of soaking the chicken in the marinade and cooking it for 50 minutes (10 minutes less than the recipe indicates.)
I highly recommend it to any student with some time to cook. It's great to make on weekends because the leftovers should last until about Wednesday (if you make it on a Sunday, like I did.)
Here is evidence of the cooking.
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