My latest inspirations for new recipes to try involve finding recipes which incorporate items I already have. As I still had feta leftover from the beach weekend, and I had one more packet of chicken thighs from when I made the gorgonzola chicken, so put them together and what do we got? Bippity Boppity boo…anyway so I found this Fantastic Feta Chicken recipe from food.com. I thought I’d make it today in honor of Maggie and Allie’s Birthdays…two close friends of mine who incidentally happen to be born on the same day and happen to also be getting married later this year.
Anyway, so I took a short break from cleaning and putting together my apartment to come home and cook in my current house.
The recipe called for:
- Chicken breasts – obviously used thighs
- Lemon juice – check
- Chopped fresh (nope) or dried (yup) oregano – check
- Ground pepper – check
- Crumbled feta – check
Putting together the chicken was SIMPLE. EASY. Prep took less than 5 minutes, waiting for the oven to heat took longer than anything else. Wow. Super easy. So I popped it in the oven and set water to boil to make rice-in-a-bag to go together. Meanwhile, I set about making a loaf of Amish White Bread (magic). Then I plated the whole thing, and turns out the chicken wasn’t cooked (womp) so I threw it back into the oven and ate the rice, which was ready. Luckily my bread was still rising and so I could wait to eat but I was pretty hungry. Things I learned today…the amount of time that a chicken breast takes to cook is different from the amount of time a thigh needs to cook.
Finally after a long lost effort, the chicken was done. It was good! A lot of lemon…which wasn’t surprising, but overall good. I LOVED the feta! It occurred to me that I forgot to properly prep the chicken (take off the fat etc.) I don’t think I’d make this one again, or if I did I’d sub lime in for the lemon, since I like lime way better.
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