I could have either 1) sit on the couch, watch TV and then go to sleep and wake up and go buy a microwave frozen lunch at Metro before work OR 2) Take an hour and throw some ingredients together and make a fresh pasta lunch and go to sleep knowing that I have a good lunch tomorrow.
I went with choice #2 and enjoyed a yummy lunch. Not only that, it was a big enough portion to fill me and I didn’t have to spend $4-5 on something that has lots of fat and who knows what else.
With cooking, as I said before, there is no need for a recipe. If you have a few simple ingredients, you can have a lunch, if you don’t eat it all when you finish making it =P
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So here’s my little recipe, alter to your preference or what you have:
Chicken Pasta with Tomato Sauce
Ingredients:
any kind of pasta, small piece of chicken breast, Olive oil, Thyme, Salt & pepper, Onion, can of diced tomatoes, Green peppers, Sugar
Directions:
Cook pasta as directed (I like my pasta on the softer side). Preheat oven (350°C). Meanwhile, cut the chicken breast into smaller pieces, 1 cm thick. Then in a bowl, mix some olive oil, salt & pepper, and thyme together with the chicken and then place it on some foil on a baking sheet (** tip, make the foil into a box, so you don’t have to wash the baking sheet after **). Grill the chicken for about 10 minutes, but it should cook fast since you cut into smaller pieces. Dice some onions, sauté it with some olive oil in the pasta pot (to save dishes to wash, haha) until translucent. Then add some canned tomato sauce (depending on how much pasta you have), green peppers. Then add some sugar to help with the acidity of the tomato sauce. Add salt and pepper and thyme as desired. Lastly, add grilled chicken and pasta back in and toss!
Cool and pack up your lunch :)
P.S. The cooking time was around 30 minutes, so take some time and avoid those frozen lunches.
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Bon Appetit,
Jenny
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