Yum, yum, give me some (more!)

From the 101 in 1001 list: 5. Learn five new healthy dinner recipes. (1/5)

Wednesday night's "Are we really going to try and have a baby?" conversation occurred over one of the yummiest homemade dinners I have had in quite a while.  One of my coworkers recently subscribed to Cooking Light and lets me peruse her issues once they come in (the cost of buying magazines really adds up).  Well, the most recent article included that yummy strawberry cake that I made into cupcakes as well as a recipe for Chicken Scaloppine with Sugar Snap Peas, Asparagus, and Lemon Salad. 

The recipe is super simple and you'll only need to buy a few things for it: chicken, sugar snap peas, asparagus, and one lemon.  You probably have everything else around (chicken broth, butter, olive oil, white wine, salt, pepper). I left the recipe and the chicken broth it calls for on the counter and gave the hubby instructions to get the dinner started while I finished up at work and then stopped at the liquor store on the way home to pick up the wine  (it needs white and I only had red and blush at home). 

I was a bit nervous about the dinner since it's a lot of vegetables and no carb/starch side.  The hubby does enjoy some healthy foods but also has a weakness for some really disastrously bad-for-you foods. However, everything about this dinner was perfect.  The chicken was utterly delicious, as were the vegetables.  I am happy that both the hubby and I enjoy steamed asparagus because now it can join our regular vegetable repertoire and will go on the list of foods we will most definitely be feeding our kids because they will watch us enjoy it.  We both gobbled up this whole dinner (although we did make a smaller portion since it was just the two of us).

Even if you do not enjoy asparagus, I would strongly recommend trying this recipe.  The lemon and olive oil dressing on the chilled steamed vegetables is scrumptious, I promise.  I definitely plan on having this dinner at least several more times throughout the summer.