Day 44: "Newlywed" Recipe

In all of the excitement of our firsts, we have significantly departed from our traditional nightly routine, cooking tasty things. Continuing this week's wedding theme, we decided to use a cookbook that had been gifted to us to make up something delicious.

It should be no surprise to anyone who knows us, we love to eat. As long as it fits into the delicious category for me, or the meat and potatoes category for Ellaine, we're a fan. So we went through the nearly 1500 recipes in the Betty Crocker Newlywed Cookbook gifted by Ellaine's former grad student, Maria, and picked out a complete meal. The only rule was it had to be in the cookbook.

Our first course was a French Onion Soup that I have always wanted to try as it's one of my favorites. It was rich and complex and surprisingly easy to make. The main event though was the chicken piccata, a dish I have never eaten before, let alone cooked. It was a quick breading and skillet fry (props to Ellaine for figuring out how to get breading to stick without an egg). We finished it up with some buttery noodles and parsley.


We paired the meal with a summer cocktail with thyme, lemon, and cranberry juice. We didn't actually drink any of it as we were too tired, but it did taste delicious from the sip we took.

It was a very satisfying meal and one we will repeat again. It was great to cook together and enjoy the quiet time of sitting together and catching up on the day's activities.