Came up with a pretty good chicken sandwich a few days ago. I used some fairly common ingredients so I think most people should be able to make this pretty easily.
(excuse my upside down chicken breast lol)
Ingredients:
Salt
Freshly Ground Pepper
Lemon Juice
Pesto - I used Jamie Oliver's pesto. Pricy but the only other choice was Classico which I find to be complete trash.
Slice of cheese - I used Jarlsberg but mozzarella would probably be good
Baby Arugula
Alfalfa Sprouts (optional)
Bacon(!!)
Ciabatta Bread
Olive Oil
Butter
Chicken Breast
Dijon Mustard
Directions:
1. Take chicken breast (frozen is fine as well) and season with salt and pepper. Bit of lemon juice and apply pesto on top to taste
2. Bake chicken breast in oven @ 375 F (25 mins thawed, 45 mins frozen)
3. Make bacon (2 slices) on pan while chicken is baking
4. As bacon and chicken are cooking, mix olive oil and butter in small cup
5. Cut ciabatta bread to fit your chicken breast inside, apply olive oil/butter mix on both slices
6. When bacon is done, place in paper towels and pour/save most of the grease BUT leave just a tiny bit in the pan
7. When chicken is done, place slice of cheese on top and keep it in the oven. The residual heat should melt it nicely
8. Once cheese is melted, place chicken on pan with bacon grease at about medium to medium-high heat to give the chicken some more texture on the bottom. Keep it there maybe for a minute or when it's just a little browned
9. As the chicken is on pan, toast ciabatta
10. Put everything together! Ciabatta, dash of dijon mustard, bacon strips, arugula, alfalfa sprouts, chicken breast
Also started making a lot of real basic fried rice with my leftover rice.
Ingredients:
Salt
Freshly Ground Pepper
Day old rice
1 clove of garlic (finely chopped)
Sesame oil
1-2 eggs
Soya sauce
Veggies (carrots, broccoli, peppers, whatever you got)
Pre-cooked Meat (sausage, deli meats, whatever you got)
Fresh basil (optional)
Directions:
1. Break egg(s) in small cup, season with salt/pepper and beat lightly
2. Heat pan to about medium-high and put in sesame oil
3. Chop garlic and toss into pan when it has heated up
4. Pour in eggs and stir constantly like you're making scrambled eggs
5. Once eggs are starting to firm up, pour in rice and start breaking it apart so it's not in clumps
6. Toss in your veggies/meat
7. Pour in soya sauce to taste, mix it around, then toss in some fresh basil leaves
8. Just keep tossing everything around in pan until it is hot enough to eat (should be 1-2mins at this point)