Wednesday Night Dinner: Roast Chicken and Assorted Veggies

I didn't know quite what to do for dinner this week, only that I was feeling a little lazy, so I picked up a roast chicken from Sunflower Market and then bought some red potatoes, sweet potatoes, an eggplant, and green beans. I tossed the eggplant in olive oil, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning and roasted them in the oven, not sure how long. I tossed the potatoes in olive oil and seasoning salt and roasted them for about 45 minutes at 400 degrees. I boiled the green beans to get them tender, before sauteeing them in olive oil and garlic. A pretty healthy, well-rounded dinner.

Grilled Green Chile and Cheese Sandwich

My sister moved into my house and I'm thinking it means I might cook more often now that there's someone else around. I had leftover green chiles from last week's Wednesday night dinner, and some leftover havarti cheese, and the perfect recipe came to mind—Pioneer Woman's favorite sandwich. The sandwich consists of green chiles, tomatoes, red onions, and cheese with a sauce made of dijon and mayo. It was pretty delicious. On the side I roasted some sweet potatoes and threw together a salad. For the sweet potatoes, just toss them in olive oil, add a little salt and pepper, and roast for 35 minutes at 375 degrees. Delish!

Wednesday Night Dinner: Pesto Scallops

This week's dinner were scallops served on a bed of spinach and crimini mushrooms topped with a homemade basil pesto sauce and served with a side of oven roasted sweet potatoes cooked with onions and garlic. Vanessa made dinner for us this week and it was pretty delicious. It was her first time cooking scallops, which are a tricky thing. They weren't perfect, but I think we'll continue trying to cook them. Her basil pesto was delicious and I kept the leftover pesto.

Summer is going to throw off the Wednesday night dinners a bit, I think, as Whitney is in Texas for the summer doing an internship and the others travel around. I am, sadly, the only one who will always be around for Wednesdays because my job doesn't offer me any vacation time in my first year there. So this week, the cast of characters was Vanessa, Chris, me and Vanessa's co-worker, Heather. I like how Wednesday night dinners has seen a steady stream of visitors. One day, we're going to end up with twice as many people as we started with.