Thursday, February 23, 2012

nick's dream chicken sandwich

whew, two blog posts in one day!! what a treat!

robyn told me i should post more recipes, so this is for you robyn :) i should have taken photos of the sandwiches, but i was hungry and tired and i just wanted to eat, dangit!

here's the story behind these sandwiches... every sunday i do a meal plan for the week & then monday i do all the grocery shopping. i always ask nick what dinners he wants--we only do two or three meals and then do leftovers or eat with family the other days--and he always tells me he doesn't know. this last monday he told me about a dream he had... about a chicken sandwich. haha. yeah, that's my husband. here was the sandwich:

- foccacia bread (yeah, he even knew what bread it was on...)
- grilled chicken breasts (marinade recipe below) thinly sliced
- mozzarella, feta & parmesan
- sliced tomatoes ("recipe" below)
- garlic aioli (recipe below)

italian marinade:
(when i make marinades, i just kind of throw stuff in, so i will try to make this as accurate as i can!)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup white cooking wine
- small handful of fresh parsley, roughly chopped
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 3 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
- salt and pepper
i'm pretty sure that's all i put in. i put it all in a ziploc, shook it up, and then threw in two chicken breasts and marinated them overnight. then i grilled the chicken on our george foreman and sliced it really thin. yum!

oven roasted tomatoes:
for these i just sliced the tomatoes (really thin for me, because i'm not a big tomato fan--and then a little fatter for nick), put them in a pan, drizzled olive oil, salt and pepper on top.

garlic aioli:
- 1/3 cup olive oil mayo
- 2 tsp minced garlic
- salt and pepper
- 2 tsp lemon juice

ta da! here's how we assembled them:

- slice open bread and toast in oven
- melt mozzarella on bottom slice
- layer thinly sliced chicken on top
- layer tomato slices on top
- sprinkle with feta and shredded parmesan
- spread aioli on top half
- low broil in oven for a few minutes
- and bam! eat!

i don't know if ANYONE will care about this. i hate recipes when they don't have photos. but it was delicious, cheap & easy. good deal, right?

2 comments:

  1. Three kinds of cheeses! Way to go Nick. Mr. Gandolfo's himself having dreams about sandwiches. I love it! PS The girls and I r coming to Utah March 7-11 so I will be paying you cute people a visit ;)

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  2. I miss not being able to mooch a sandwich off of youallza. That one is a dream of a sandwich~~~

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