Hello!

Wow, who let you post with such vulgar language in your title?

The internet, that’s who! And that sweet internet shall carry me through to my bitter end (bless up).

But that’s not what I’m writing about today. Today I’d like to share with you an easy, quickly made recipe that’s full of protein. For instance, if you’ve been crying a lot, this will give you the strength to go to work because you don’t have a husband to do the work for you oh god I’m going to be alone forever–

ANYWAYS. *flips hair* Let’s focus on the more exciting part of my, on our collective lives here. Food. This is a simple recipe that takes 1 hour (ugh I know) but makes great meal prep or you can jazz it up to make it seem like you actually know how to cook.

Personally, I love chicken as a protein. It’s cheap, it’s easy to prepare and hard to fuck up. So that’s what I chose as my main protein. BUT. This recipe would still work with another main protein (steak, turkey, etc). My second protein is bacon, and it provides most of the fat content needed to make a meal last in your stomach, aka keep you full. If you wanted just one protein, you could shake it up and just use beef, which has a high fat and protein content. Idk boo. You do you.

For vegetables, I used allll my favorites: potatoes, asparagus, bell peppers and red onions. It really doesn’t matter which vegetables you use. You just need to be aware of the cooking time for the individual pieces. The first time I made this recipe, I had my potatoes in big chunks and my bell peppers in small chunks. The bell peppers were shriveled away by the time the potatoes full cooked. The second time around, I chopped everything into large chunks (think about an inch) EXCEPT for the potatoes, which I did in about half inch chunks. Much better results if I do say so myself.

I used the basics for the spices; basil, thyme, parsley, oregano, onion powder and salt. I used a teaspoon of each spice and two teaspoons of salt. As I was chopping everything up, I threw all of my ingredients into a bowl (save the bacon). I added 1 tablespoon of olive oil and the spices, mixed it altogether and threw it onto two pans. I chopped up the bacon and threw it on top in the way I thought prettiest. They baked at 400 for 45 min, stopping at 20 min to mix the veggies around.

Now that I’m on my second try of making this recipe, I would make a few adjustments. I would add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. The first time around, the mixture was way too oily (very delicious, just too oily for my tastes). So I thought, let’s cut it down a bit and see how it does? Now my potatoes are stuck to the pan. It’s not the end of the world but I am sad about the potatoes. The spices have turned out well otherwise. Last time I added garlic, and while it smelled good, it does not taste good to have a full bite of garlic. Garlic powder is clearly the way to go.

As for dressing this recipe up–that would be really simple just by changing the main protein. If you switched the main protein to steak and cooked that in a pan while the veggies and bacon cooked in the pan, you’d have a very fine meal indeed. If you wanted to make this vegan/vegetarian, you could subtract the meat and add tofu or beans, perhaps nutritional yeast as well. And for one of my favorites! If you wanted this for breakfast, just cook an egg sunny side up (or any way you want I suppose), heat the leftovers in the same pan and BAM! A delicious breakfast.

I guess this is where I go to the actual recipe? But I don’t know how to actually make that yet so please accept this poor substitute:

Ingredients:

• Chicken (4 Thin Slices or 1 Breast)
• Bacon (4 Slices)
• One handful of asparagus
• One potato
• One small bell pepper
• One small onion
• .5 teaspoon of basil, thyme, parsley, and oregano
• One teaspoon of salt
• .25 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Chop all vegetables and toss into a bowl.
3. Chop chicken.
4. Add spices and olive oil, and mix together.
5. Spread onto pan.
6. Chop two pieces of bacon into one inch pieces. Spread on top of mixture any way you like.
7. Bake for 40-45 min, checking at 20 min and mixing vegetables.
8. Pull out of oven and allow to cool for 5 min.
9. Enjoy!

1 pan recipe makes about 3 servings for me so prolly 4 servings for people who watch what they eat.

To make the 2 pan recipe, double the ingredients and add an extra pan.

I hope you enjoy! Comment below if you’ve tried it and how it worked for you 🙂