dinner and dash: couscous with veggies!

Simple. Fast. Delicious.


Did I mention it only took five minutes to make?

I actually feel dumb posting the recipe, but here you are...

1/2 cup dry whole wheat couscous

(Boil water. Take pot off hot eye. Pour in dry couscous. Stir and fluff for a few minutes till it's all soaked up.)

3/4 cup veggies (little corn cobs, carrots, peppers, onions, whatever)

Sautee. Add couscous. Stir until all moisture's gone.

Oh, and add salt or your choice of seasoning. 

Eat.

Pat yourself on the back for eating healthy food like a good girl instead of going with your friends to have fried chicken and the best fries in Nashville at McDougal's. 

You just saved $8 and a guilty meal.

what can you do with a grilled chicken?

I decided after last week's debaucle of eating things like microwaved veggie burgers (and one unfortunate "quesadilla" made of a tortilla and a slice of swiss cheese... super gross) for every meal that I would start cooking and eating real food. I grilled up a batch of chicken breasts on Tuesday night and have been getting creative ever since.

Here's are two lovely lunch and dinner meals with chicken!

"That Pesty Chicken!"

Pesto Chicken Pasta. Probably the best meal I've ever made. Thanks to Father and Dani for inspiring it... Take one grilled chicken breast (seasoned with lemon pepper and garlic salt and Italian spices), add it to some cooked pasta (I used this DELICIOUS grape-shaped vineyard pasta my Granny gave me this summer), spritz with olive oil, stir in some stir-fried broccoli/carrots/peapods/whatever-veggies-you-like, and add a couple spoonfuls of store-bought (or homemade! But I prefer Trader Joe's) pesto.

"That's A Wrap!"

A chicken avocado spinach swiss wrap. Delicious. And self-explanatory.

Best pressed by a Griddler or panini press!