Saturday, January 30, 2010

That's Italian!

I haven't blogged in forever because I haven't exercised in forever (until yesterday's long run... more on that later).  So this post is about food.  Yesterday, I made homemade cannoli and tiramisu for my girl Laura's 40th birthday party.  That was not so much clean eating, so instead, I'll report here on a healthy version of chicken parmesan I made the other night from the March/April 2010 issue of Clean Eating magazine.  The important thing is that I loved it - I give it an 8 easily, as did the cute husband overall (9 for the chicken, 7 for the whole wheat penne on the side).  Jimmy #1 did not like the pasta, but 99% of his pasta consumption is mac-n-cheese.  Jimmy #2 really liked the dish once I let him put butter on his pasta.  Anyway, the chicken was really good... panko bread crumbs and parmesan with a bit of dijon holding it on and obviously baked instead of fried.  And mozzarella on top.  The recipe calls for reduced-fat, but we still had a good bit of the real stuff from when I made the cute husband make fake Pokey Sticks the other night (not so clean either).  So the cheesy goodness probably didn't hurt the ratings.

Tomorrow's my birthday!  If I get my way, there will be warm carrot cake with melty cream cheese frosting at one of our favorite restaurants.  Good thing I ran 15 miles yesterday.

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