Theme Meal Plans: Date Night Dinner
Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers | Chicken with Lemons | White Rice | Pinwheel Tart
Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Date Night Dinner (Theme Meal Plans) |
| 2 | large | cucumbers, sliced |
| 1.5 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 1.5 | cup | vinegar, cider |
| 2 | Tb | onions, sliced |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Cut cucumbers into thin slices. Dissolve sugar in vinegar on low heat. Thinly slice red onion. Add cucumbers, onions and liquid in a bowl and let marinate for 1 hour. Salt and Pepper to taste.
Chicken with Lemons
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Easy Recipes I Can Cook |
| Meal: | Date Night Dinner (Theme Meal Plans) |
| 4 | each | chicken breasts, boneless, skinless |
| 4 | Tb | rice flour |
| 1 | pinch | salt, kosher |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | Tb | lemon zest, finely chopped |
| 2 | oz | mushrooms, sliced |
| 1 | medium | lemon, juice of |
| 1 | 15 oz can | chicken broth |
| 1 | Tb | cornstarch |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Pound chicken breasts in zip-lock baggie to 1/2” thickness, add flourand salt, shake to coat. Heat oil in pan, brown chicken, add zest, mushrooms, and lemon juice. Cook for 3 minutes, add chicken broth, reserving 2 oz. Cook for about 7 minutes, until chicken is done. Add remaining chicken stock to corn starch, add to pan, stir. Salt and pepper to taste.
Chicken Piccata
White Rice
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Starch / Pasta |
| Meal: | Date Night Dinner (Theme Meal Plans) |
| 1 | cup | rice |
| 2 | cup | water |
| 1 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | Tb | vinegar, white |
| 0.5 | tsp | salt to taste |
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Place all ingredients in a microwavable bowl. Mix and cook, covered on high for 15 minutes.
Pinwheel Tart
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Date Night Dinner (Theme Meal Plans) |
| 1 | recipe | Tart Dough |
| 3 | Tb | raspberry preserves |
| 1 | lb | peaches, sliced |
| 0.5 | pt | strawberries, whole |
| 0.33 | cup | blackberries, fresh |
| 3 | Tb | apricot jam |
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Prepare tart shell according to recipe. Cool
Heat raspberry preserves in microwave for 1 minute until liquefied. Spread on tart shell bottom. Skin peaches, cut into 3/4 wedges, arrange along outside of tart shell in a full circle. Cut strawberries in half; arrange cut side down inside of the peaches. Finish center of tart with the blackberries.
Heat apricot preserves in microwave for 1 minute, until liquefied. Brush gently on top of fruit.
Serve with powered sugar; whip cream or vanilla ice cream.
Note: You may use frozen fruit, thawed.
Note: Be sure to add the Tart dough recipe to your shopping list.
