So We Stop Eating Like Twelve Year-Olds.

After an unprecedented two week hiatus, Project: Let's Eat Dinner Together is back with a vengeance! This is good, considering that last week I was sustained almost exclusively by broccoli, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and an unhealthy amount of egg nog from Trader Joe's. Preston stuck to his usual fried and frozen options (chicken nuggets, fish sticks, and pizza). So basically, the moral of the story is that unless we make a conscious decision about what we're going to eat and when we are going to eat it, we eat like we have the metabolism and underdeveloped taste-buds of a twelve year-old boy. Alas, as neither of us is a twelve year-old boy, subsisting on such a diet means that, by the end of the week, I looked like I was carrying an egg nog baby and Preston had fulfilled his grease quota for the next three months.

So naturally, for our first night back, I made Crispy Cod with Parmesan Butter Dipping Sauce and Broccoli. Because "parmesan butter dipping sauce" is the way to start eating healthy again. All my meals this week are from articles from Real Simple that I carefully clipped out, promptly filed, and proceeded to forget about entirely. So over the weekend, I decided that if

I'm going to continue saving recipes from magazines (when I already have lots of cookbooks and the magical land of internet at my fingertips), I'm going to have to start actually using them.

The cod we made last night was super easy. Just dip the pieces of fish in olive oil, season with salt, dredge one side in crushed cornflakes, and cook for 10 minutes. A little bit tasteless, but since everything in the world is made better with butter, when it's dipped in the parmesan butter it tastes heavenly. And lalala I'm not thinking about the fact that I probably clogged many, many arteries while eating it. In the future, we might experiment with spices to make the fish a little more flavorful, but will definitely continue to make some version of this fish, considering how easy it is.

Other meals for the week include: Parmesan Pasta with Chicken and Rosemary and Green Beans with Roasted Nuts and Cranberries; Roasted Salmon and Potatoes with Dill and Glazed Carrots; Rosemary Chicken with Zucchini. I'll post pictures on Flickr throughout the week to keep myself accountable. Because I am convinced that thirty years from now, I'll be happy that I documented what we ate for dinner together in our first year of marriage. That, or I'll think WHAT THE HELL? How much time did you waste trying to get the perfect picture of chicken? But I'm hoping for the former.