Recipe: Chicken with Spinach and Tomato

Ingredients:

• 8 to 12 ounces fresh chopped or baby spinach, cleaned
• salt and pepper
• 1/4 cup chicken broth
• 4 chicken breast halves, boneless, pounded slightly to even thickness
• 2 tsp Italian Seasoning
• salt and pepper
• 1 large tomato, diced
• 1 onion chopped

Preparation:

Heat oven to 350°. Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish or spray with cooking spray. Put spinach in the baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add chicken broth. Sprinkle chicken with seasoning blend, salt, and pepper; arrange over the spinach. Sprinkle with the diced tomato and onion. Cover the baking dish with foil. Bake for 25 minutes. Uncover and bake for 10 to 15 minutes longer, or until chicken is cooked through.
Serves 4.

Out of oven

Before oven

BeefARoni!!

Mediterranean Chicken with couscous salad

Well we have the funk in our house - Dakota got it Monday and Eli and I got it last night. Strep throat. UGH.

And I did NOT feel like cooking. But I didn't marinade that chicken for nothing, ya heard?

So I went thru with it. I cooked it up and I ate the dickens out of it! And it was darn tooting delicious! SO take that Mr. Strep!

By the way this one was NOT gluten free - because my local shop didnt have gluten free couscous - s I splurged and bought the rainbow - cuz it was cute. YES, because it was cute!

So here is our photo:

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I do NOT get paid to endorse them in any way - just sharing :)

Although I wish I did get paid - Hey - Fresh 20 - You hear that??

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Minestrone Soup

Todays Menu included Minestrone soup - one of my faves!
Usually I make it with shell noodles, but since this is gluten free - we used rice. ( the recipe called for quinoa).

Everyone loved it, we added in addition to the recipe - zucchini and celery and some extra chicken broth...

Spaghetti Bolognese

Welcome back!

This week seems to have a mexican theme for The Fresh 20's Meal plans...
Super excited because in my house, my kids LOVE this food!

Monday was a Spaghetti Bolognese. What does this have to do with mexican cuisine? Well, not much, but the sauce did have cumin in it...

And I am going to admit something publicly here. Because we are all friends right?
I am not going to be using the gluten free noodles any more. I know, I know. I am doing the gluten free menu right?!? Well truth is, my family just doesnt like them, and I am throwing them out and it seems wasteful! So if and when I can, I will substitute the noodles for rice, if not then I will use real italian noodles.

So in the future when you see photos, I WILL let you know which is which!

That being said, I DID use white rice noodles with this recipe. I thought it was great! But the rest of the fam, not so much. We did have a guest for dinner, my brothers AMAZING girl friend, who had baby sat our kids for us today. And I forced her to try it. She didnt seem to mind - but my amazingly picky brother stopped by... Then the fun began! This man, doesnt eat anything, I mean ANYTHING! He hates veggies! And I thought for SURE he would NOT eat the noodles. HE scarfed the plate down!! And the recipe had a cup of shredded carrots! He ate it!! Yowza! That is saying a lot! haha!!!

Anyways, here is the photo I took of my plate before I scarfed MY plate down!

Turkey, Ham and Mushroom - Oh My!

I have clearly been slacking this week! Or just havent had time, I am SO sorry!

Here are the meals I prepared for the rest of this week.
They were all hit EXCEPT - the mushroom linguine. Which, by the way, I was looking forward to the most! I was so sad! My husband and I managed to get it down, but the kids didnt even touch it. I take that back, they did try it, but made a face. Skylar even refused my offer of cookies to eat it! Geesh!

It probably would have been better with non-gluten free pasta, or more oil, or more cheese. Something. It just lacked flavor. And the citrus dressing was sooooo citrus-y. Ah well. Cant win them all!

Here are the photos combined into one post!
Enjoy!
And like always, the recipes can be found at The Fresh 20...

Greek Chicken & Warm Spinach Salad - Gluten Free

Tonights menu was Greek Chicken with a warm spinach salad.

I marinated the chicken for 4 hours and it was amazing! The recipe called for boneless skinless, but they didnt have that at my local grocery store. So I bought bone in. It was still amazing, and I never eat the skin anyways.
The spinach salad on the other hand - wellllll - my daughter and I didnt really care for it. It was really tomato-ish. Maybe if I cut the tomato amount in half next time. Im not sure, it just felt like it was missing something.

Anywho - it was still good, and still gluten free!

The Fresh 20

Italian Polenta Bake- Gluten Free

 Well here it is, the first gluten free recipe that is not my own...
It was delicious!!
It consisted of polenta, turkey sausage, mushrooms, onion, tomato puree, and mozzarella cheese!!
With a spinach salad on the side.

I highly recommend it!!
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