Console Prep

Tomorrow night I start a 7 night overnight stint in mission control (unless the space shuttle manages to launch before 5/13... unlikely). Basically for the next 7 days I will get up around 6pm, eat dinner/breakfast with my awesome boyfriend, putter around for a few hours, and then head off to work at 11pm until 8am the next day.
One of the things I do to prep for console is make some food. Tonight I cooked a 9 (!) serving chicken and rice casserole. I'll give Dan a couple servings for lunches and I'll keep some to heat up for my 5am breakfast/dinner. Here's a shot of my meals all boxed up:
To make this, I had to skin some chicken thighs. Raw chicken is the grossest thing ever! Then brown it with some garlic. Then the rice went into a pan with wine, chicken broth, onions, spices, and boiled for a bit. Then it all went in the oven with artichokes and frozen peas. Here's what it looked like after the oven:
Haven't tried any yet because its 3am and I can't imagine eating anything right now. I'll let you know. Other console prep includes buying a bunch of snacks. And making muffins to bring in:

These beauties are Brown Sugar and Cornbread muffins, with a brown sugar and cornmeal crunch topping. I haven't tasted them either, but I did lick the bowl and the batter was amazing!









Recently Dan and I have cooked a couple other delicious Cooking Light meals:
For the last Friday in Lent which was also during passover, we needed something breadless and meatless. The recipe was for Tuna but we couldn't find any tuna steaks so we got salmon instead. It was still delicious. Blackened Salmon with spicy slaw.



And last night we made a lighter (not deep fried) Falafel. Here's the whole table layout: Falafel, pita, tahini sauce, and spinach, and Israeli Salad (tomato, onion, cucumber, garlic, red wine vinegar, olive oil).So far, we have not been disappointed by this cookbook in the least. Other recent meals not pictured include Peppered Watercress Turkey Burgers and Grilled Sea Bass with Mango salsa.