Monday, July 2, 2012

June 30, 2012 Dinner – Roasted Chicken, asparagus, roasted minted potatoes and Moroccan melon salad


June 30, 2012 Dinner – Roasted Chicken, asparagus, roasted minted potatoes and Moroccan melon salad

Max worked on the house most of the day.  At around 5:00 p.m. we decided to prepare dinner.  I had purchased Moroccan semi dried black olives at Istanbul Market on Thursday, so we decided to make a melon salad with mint and black olives.

Suzette had brought home a roasted chicken from the Greenhouse Bistro and Bakery and I had a hankering for roasted potatoes, so I cut up four Russet potatoes into large cubes and peeled and sectioned five or six shallots and about five or six cloves of garlic from our garden and put those into a ceramic baking dish and Suzette tossed them with Moroccan olive oil. And we baked them in a 375˚F oven for 1 hour. 

I then cut up and balled honeydew melon and watermelon and we tossed it with chopped mint and ½ cup of black Moroccan semi dried olives for the melon salad.

We then snapped the ends off about fifteen asparagus and steamed them.  When the potatoes were cooked (soft to the touch of a fork), I chopped up about ½ cup of fresh mint leaves and Suzette tossed the potatoes with the mint while I sectioned and heated the chicken in the microwave.

We plated up and had a great meal with glasses of a really delicious Fog Head Sauvignon Blanc. 

Bon Appétit

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