Day 14 of 30- Curry marinated chicken

Today has been exhausting.  For a lot of reasons externally and internally, so less blab, and more recipes!

My daily mantra before I eat goes something like this:  "I love food and all the flavors of it." and today's dinner was no exception.  It was another chicken + salad combination.  But I've become highly proficient at making salads go from bland to GRAND! 

Curry marinated chicken 

Ingredients

Chicken
curry powder
olive oil
pepper
anise seeds
garam masala
a splash of lemon juice

1.  marinate the chicken in all of the above.  I made mine the day before and it was sitting in juices for quite some time before I cooked it up.
2.  Preheat the oven to 425, preheat a cast iron skillet (if you don't have a cast iron, any baking dish is OK too), heat up a standard frying pan and rapidly sear the chicken a few minutes on each side.
3.  Transfer the chicken to the cast iron skillet, skin side down if it has skin
4.  Bake for 20 min at 425

When the chicken comes out of the oven, it is crispy, juicy and delicious!  slice it up and serve it over a bed of greens.  My salad portion consisted of a heaping pile of boston red lettuce, a hard boiled egg, olives and sliced sundried tomatoes.  delicious!  so many colors, so many flavors!  drizzle with olive oil and splash on some balsamic vinegar and there you have it.  DINNER!

A delicious and filling salad.  Just look at that crispy skin!

I was thinking about what my first meal would be at the conclusion of this challenge.  And I have no idea what I would eat! (well, first i would grab a nice cold beer or a glass of wine.... ).  At the start of the challenge, I craved sweet things and starchy carby fatty salty things, but now it's easy.... easier.... to turn it down.  I might continue a modified and less stringent version of the Whole 30, but I'm still not even half way through (almost but not quite!) so we'll have to see what happens later.

Til next time, eat well and BE WELL!

Let thy food be thy medicine, and they medicine be thy food!