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?