best meal i ever made

last night my roomie and i made dinner from our Food Network kitchen cookbook. this cookbook (that i couldnt find a picture of and i will get back to you on) has some amazing recipes. we've been pretty good about preparing dinners together at least once a week.

last night we made Chicken Saltimboca. and let me just tell you, if i could eat my monitor right now i would. i think this was one of the best dishes we have made together.

easy recipe: Chicken, prosciutto, sage, mushrooms, garlic, wine, creme fraiche (hard to find but i'm pretty sure you can use sour cream instead), and parsley.

1. preheat oven to 375
2. lay a few sage leaves on top of the chicken breasts
3. wrap with a slice of proscuitto
4. dredge the breast in flour (the recipe called for Wondra, or instant flour, we just used sieved regular flour)
5. saute the chicken so that it is brown on both sides, transfer to a baking dish and bake until done. (this will depend on the thickness of your chicken and how long you sauteed it for, we did about 20 mins of extra baking)
6. make the sauce: saute mushrooms (half a package of presliced mushrooms) and garlic (2 cloves)
7. add a half a cup of dry red wine (or marsala), let it reduce
8. take it off the heat, stir in a third of a cup of creme fraiche and some chopped parsley
9. spoon the sauce onto plates, top with chicken and FEAST!

this weekend was also the Metropolitan food cooking bonanza show.

thanks to livingsocial roomie and i and some friends went and saw Giada in the morning and wandered around to our heart's content. we tried every dip and sauce they had out.

we saw giada do a demo on a huge stage. it was fun, but not as exciting as i anticipated.

the real fun came when we hit up a different stage. there were chefs from local restaurants in northern va and dc that came to do demos in a more intimate setting.

i learned some cool stuff about making turkey and another hottie chef taught us about salmon and slow cooking it. it was amazing.

the most exciting part was seeing and meeting Mike Isabella, head chef of Zaytinya. he was also a contestant on this season of Top Chef. he just got the boot but that means he's back in dc making awesome greek, turkish, and lebanese food.