{"id":28599,"date":"2012-02-25T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=28599"},"modified":"2012-02-23T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:43:53","slug":"dinner-catastrophes-dinner-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=28599","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Catastrophes, Dinner Successes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some dinners are great. Sometimes recipes really stand out and make me feel like I can actually cook! Recently I made some pretty delicious dinners that turned out well. The first one is a recipe repeat. I’ve made it before. \u00a0I made the Garlic and Soy Chicken Thighs<\/a> for dinner with some brown rice and steamed veggies. The dinner was delicious and filling.<\/p>\n

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\nI really like that recipe a lot. It’s super easy to make. I would not recommend eating it the night before a weigh-in though, considering the sodium in soy sauce!<\/p>\n

The next week we made another simple chicken dish with a side of steamed cauliflower.<\/p>\n

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This dinner was another success: easy, delicious, filling. I also indulged in some freshly baked kalamata olive loaf dipped in olive oil, balsamic and freshly minced garlic (YUM!). I’d been craving bread dipped in something<\/em>\u00a0and finally gave in to the craving.<\/p>\n

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Some dinners are just catastrophic. Michael and I recently made dinner together. He blackened the salmon–which turned out delicious. I made quinoa, also turned out well. I also tried to steam some veggies. I was totally not paying attention, or something, and forgot to add water into the bottom part of the pot to steam the veggies.<\/p>\n

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I put the pot combo on the burner and was waiting, waiting, waiting…the veggies were still hard as a rock when I stabbed them with my fork. What the hell? And what the hell is that smell?? It smelled like a combination of scorching pots and rotting veggies. It was vile. “Did you put enough water in the pot?” Michael finally asked me. My shoulders sagged. “F**K!” I realized I didn’t put ANY water in the pot.<\/p>\n

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I put some water in and tried again but it was too late. The veggies were black and scorched. Into the compost they went. So dinner that night? It was blackened salmon that had cooled by the time we sat down, quinoa and a salad.<\/p>\n

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Anyone want crackers and peanut butter for dinner?<\/p>\n

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They can’t all be winners. Sheesh.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What’s a dinner catastrophe and a dinner success you’ve had recently?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some dinners are great. Sometimes recipes really stand out and make me feel like I can actually cook! Recently I made some pretty delicious dinners that turned out well. The first one is a recipe repeat. I’ve made it before. \u00a0I made the Garlic and Soy Chicken Thighs for dinner with some brown rice and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,55,1621,2124,315,100,104,106,107,212,230,231,288],"tags":[2261,5535,8770,5533,5534,937,8711,5532],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_4183.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28599"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28727,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions\/28727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}