Easy Chicken Dinner

I was so looking forward to curry for dinner tonight.  Got home from work and discovered I forgot to get coconut milk at the store.  So no curry for me! :(

On to plan B.  I decided to kill two birds with one stone and make Easy Chicken Dinner for dinner. That way I could take pictures while I made it  for Joe's Cookbook! YAYS!!!

 

I've decided to create a visual cookbook of sorts for Joe to use while I'm gone. So he doesn't starve.   Not that I'm not cooking and freezing a ton of stuff... but he might want to try his hand at cooking one night!

So here is a super easy chicken dinner. I remember eating this as a kiddo, it's yummy, easy and makes a great weeknight meal.

 

OK Turn your oven on right now!!! 

Most ovens take 15 minutes or more to "pre-heat" and you don't want to eat pink chicken! Ewww...

162˚ Celsius and 350˚ Fahrenheit

 

Ingredients:

 

1 can cream of mushroom soup

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts

1/2 cup rice

2 tablespoons water

1/8 teaspoon mixed herbs

1/8 teaspoon garlic salt

10 turns of black pepper from a grinder

1 cup frozen peas

tin foil

8x8 baking dish

 

 

Spread the rice out in the bottom of the dish

Add 1/8 tsp mixed herbs and 1/8 tsp garlic salt

 

 

 Then add 10 turns of black pepper out of a pepper grinder

 

 

Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of water over the rice.  Make sure it goes where the chicken will be as that is the rice that the soup doesn't always reach.  And you don't want crunchy rice... trust me. Its gross!

 

 

At this point I always rinse my chicken off... My Mama taught me to be a chicken washer with horror stories of icky chicken bugs, so I always rinse it off. You don't have to, but make sure to trim off the yucky bits.  (note the chicken bugs are not actual bugs, apparently this needs clarifying)

 

 

OK place your two chicken breasts side by side and pour the can of cream of mushroom soup.  Spread it all out, making sure the chicken is covered.  Joe named this bit "slime the chicken", but you can name it whatever you want! ;)

 

 

Add 1 cup of frozen peas to the top, just make it random, we're making dinner... not designing the next space station here. LOL So just toss 'em in there!

 

 

See... just tossed in there. No rhyme or reason at all.

 

 

 

Cover the whole thing with foil and pop it in the over for an hour.  But for goodness sakes, check the chicken and make sure it's done! If it's still pinkish, put it back in the oven!

An hour usually is enough time when I make this dish.

 

 

This is what it looks like when it comes out of the oven.  I like to "plate" it so that it looks a bit yummier, put some rice on the bottom of a large flat bowl, then put the chicken on top and add sauce/peas over the top of that.

 

And then... enjoy.

 

 

In other news, our cat is insane. He's currently chasing his tail in the bookshelf. Yes you read that right, he is sitting on the bottom shelf of the bookcase chasing his tail. Silly little monster!! I tried to take a picture, but before I could get my camera he got bored and wandered off.

So here's picture of his giant fat belly with his toy on top.  It will have to do.

Yes,we know he's fat, he's on a diet.

It's not working.

Oh well.