Thursday, March 6, 2008

Baked Chicken with Spinach and Cheese and Cherries

Spinach is susceptible of receiving all imprints: It is the virgin wax of the kitchen.
~Grimod de la Reyniere

The Recipe

So, I had the usual chicken breasts...hmmm...

I pulled out the oven safe glass dish and pre-heated the oven to the usual 375...

But I didn't want to do the usual.

So I tried something new.

I had a bag of baby spinach in the fridge. I rinsed it and patted it dry and put it in the dish. I had some mozzarella cheese, so I dumped it over the spinach. "Bland," I thought, so I added some fresh grated parmesan, and some salt and pepper. I put the chicken breasts on top of the spinach bed, and spiced it with some tarragon, thyme, and some more salt. Not quite there yet...it still needs something more. I perused the cupboard and saw a bag of dried cherries. I grabbed a handful and sprinkled cherries over the chicken.

I put it into the oven and let it cook for about 45 minutes.

It was yummy!

But, I don't know what to call it my chicken, spinach, cheese, cherry dish!


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ch Ch Ch Spinach.

Spinach-ch-ch-ch.

Spinch.

Sorry to have missed that one!

Anonymous said...

Spinacherry Chikcheese

That's what I would call it.

Anonymous said...

Love it! You win!
Spinacherry Chikcheese!