Fancy Pasta

Ingredients
– 1 1/4 cup mini farfalle pasta
– 2 tbsp sun-dried tomatoes
– chopped red onions
– chopped green onions
– 2 large minced garlic
– 2 1/2 tbsp parmesan cheese
– 1/2 cup 2% reduced fat milk
– handful of Arugula
– 2 tbsp olive oil

Directions:
Boil water. Cook your pasta. On a separate skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Add garlic, green onion, and red onion to cook for a couple minutes. Whisk in the flour, then whisk in the milk and continue to mix as you cook it until it gets slightly thickened. Add the pasta [when that’s cooked]. Once you’ve coated the pasta with the sauce, add sun-dried tomatoes, chopped up arugula, and 2 tbsp parmesan cheese. Mix and serve warm. If you want to make more than one serving, just double the portions! 🙂

Chicken with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce

Mmm made this Chicken with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce from Damn Delicious. It came out very juicy and delicious. I went light on the sauce when serving and added some couscous as a side.

Ingredients
4 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
Ground pepper and Garlic Sea Salt
3 tbsp unsalted butter
3 cloves of garlic
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
3/4 cup chicken broth
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup julienned sun dried tomatoes
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp dried oregano

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Season chicken thighs with garlic sea salt and pepper. Melt 2 tbsp of butter in a large oven-proof skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken, skin-side down, to cook until a little brown; then set it aside. Then, melt remaining tbsp of butter in the skillet. Add minced garlic and red pepper flakes, and cook for 1-2 minutes. Stir in the chicken broth, heavy cream, sun dried tomatoes, Parmesan, thyme and oregano. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer. Return chicken to the skillet. Cover skillet and place into oven until completely cooked through for 20 minutes.

Pasta night

Since I was prepping my food for the week and baking a little surprise for Mr. Chong’s birthday – I needed a quick and easy dinner. Here we have: 1 cup of Corkscrew #pasta, a little #parmeseancheese, 1 tbsp of #sundriedtomato #pastasauce, 2 oz of #Avocado, and 1 #crescentroll. #quickandeasydinner #healthyandhomie #dinnerathome #multitasking #avocadoaddict #yum #sundaydinner