Monday Munchies

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My Monday Dinner...

My Dinner. 

After a long, fun, interesting weekend cooking dinner on a Monday night is one of the few things that I know will help relax me a little. Every night I try and cook something different for dinner, to switch things up and keep my taste buds in check. I cook meals ranging from steak, to baked potatoes, to just mac and cheese. No matter the dish, I always love it. I seem to be loving new things so I am making sure to spice things up a bit. Well, tonight was kind of plain. All I made was barbecue chicken and broccoli. A little boring, but it went a long way. 

Giant

First, I make the barbecue chicken. How I do this is by purchasing chicken at the Giant located on 1020 W 41st Street Baltimore, MD 21211 and I buy thin sliced chicken breasts. I do not like to have thick chicken or big cut slices so I slice my chicken into extremely small pieces. After my chicken is cut into the perfect shape and size I then put my honey barbecue sauce on and sauté the chicken. I grab a medium sized bowl dump the chicken in pour the sauce in and mix it around until the chicken looks nice and perfect. 

Chicken. 

BBQ Sauce.

Mixing the chicken. 

Sautéed chicken.

When the chicken looks perfect, I lay each piece out on tinfoil on a oven matt. Then I pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees and after I her the beep of it being ready, I put the chicken in for about 25 minutes. Being that the chicken is sliced so small I check on them every so often in case they begin to burn. When the 25 minutes is up, I take it out and make sure the inside is white and not a pink color. 

Chicken ready to go in oven. 

Chicken in oven. 

Pre-heated oven to 425 degrees. 

Chicken finished. 

When the chicken is ready I keep it lying in the oven so it stays warm. I then move onto the broccoli. Broccoli is actually, by far, one of my favorite foods. I could eat it with any meal whether it is with breakfast, lunch or dinner. I make my broccoli different than one would think. I do not fry it, I do not boil it, I do not steam it- I put it in a pan and cook it. First, I get a cutting board out and cut my broccoli into smaller pieces so it is quick and easy to chef up. After all of the broccoli that I want to use is chopped up, I throw it in a pan. 

Chopping the broccoli. 

Chopped broccoli in the pan. 

So, like I said, I do not cook broccoli like any other. After it is all in the pan chopped up I season it all. I. drizzle a little olive oil over the broccoli, first, and mix it all up. After that I sprinkle some salt and pepper on top, of course, for some flavor. When it seems to be becoming soft and ready I add in garlic powder. The garlic powder, let me tell you, is definitely a game changer. The taste that it gives off is magical and it is my favorite part. Once the broccoli is all seasoned and is softened , it is ready to be eaten. 

Seasonings for the broccoli. 

Cooking the broccoli. 

When the broccoli was all ready I added it into a bowl with my barbecue chicken. I mixed them together, poured a glass of water and called it a day. A nice and healthy meal to start my week. 

The after math.