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Howdy all! Sorry I haven't been posting lately. We've been oober busy with vacation, Matt leaving for a business trip, getting a new cat, and the usual running amuk.
I am on my own for dinners this week so I want to give y'all a little something for 1 person dinners.
My menu this week is:
Baked potatoes
soup and rice
quesadillas
chicken parmesan
and spaghetti

Spaghetti has already been made, and of course it's nothing like Matt's, but it'll do. It hasn't actually been too long since we started making the sauce with a can of tomato paste added. We'll never go back! Not only does it make it thicker, but it gives a great boost of tomato taste. Matt normally puts in mushrooms and onions as well (I like my mushrooms chopped, he likes his slices *sigh*). For cooking the spaghetti he actually adds a couple Tbsp of olive oil to the water, which keeps the noodles from sticking together after they're drained.

For baked potatoes, I just bought green onions, bacon, sour cream and cheese. Now, I just need to go back to the store and get the potatoes!

Soup and Rice is exactly what it sounds like. I only like this with beef soups, you can try it with your own homemade pot roast etc, but since it's just me I just bought a can of soup. Cook your rice, heat up your soup (make sure it's not very liquid-y). I normally just keep them in their separate cooking pots and combine them on my plate, but if you want to make it look pretty, put the rice on a platter and then the soup over the top. Either way it's delicious. (Have I ever mentioned I used to have a phobia of rice? More on that later...)

Quesadillas. I like mine with chicken, cheese and onions. Very simple, but very filling. Cut up your ingredients, put them on a tortilla and put another tortilla over the top. Put the whole thing in a pan, and once you see the cheese melting, flip it.

Chicken Parmesan has to be one of my favorite recipes because it's so easy. On a cookie sheet place each of your prepared chicken breasts, spoon 2-3 Tbsp of spaghetti or pizza sauce over the top of each breast, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese (or just put a whole glob on top if you have an affinity for cheese, like me). Bake at 350F until chicken is cooked through (usually about 20 min for me) serve! These make excellent left overs too.

So that's my plan for this week, not to mention chocolate chip cookies and hummus.