I just had the most delicious dinner I've had in a long time, and so I thought I would post it here in case anyone wanted to try it. I'd heard of something similar before so I decided to make up my little recipe and give it a shot, and it was definitely worth it!
Chicken, roasted butternut squash & gorgonzola pizza
Ingredients:
olive oil
garlic (I used garlic powder)
onion (I used onion powder)
whole wheat pita
rotisserie chicken
butternut squash
fresh rosemary
pine nuts, toasted
shredded mozarella cheese
crumbled gorgonzola cheese
baby arugula (rocket)
salt & pepper
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cut butternut squash into bite-size cubes, toss with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and rosemary, then roast for approx. 15 - 20 minutes or until tender.
Meanwhile, brush pita with olive oil and sprinkle with garlic and onion. Top with diced chicken, roasted squash, a sprinkle of mozarella and gorgonzola cheeses, then top with toasted pine nuts. Bake in oven for about 10 minutes, or until cheese is melted and starting to brown. Remove from oven, top with a handful of arugula and enjoy!
It was sooo delicious - I was sad when it was all gone!
On a completely different note, this weekend started out terribly for me. It was the 4th of July weekend so we had Friday off work. On Thursday night I was so terribly sad and lonely, and I ended up drinking a bottle of wine and feeling sorry for myself. I was feeling better by Friday though and, no, I don't plan on making solo drinking a regular occurrence! Then on Saturday something awesome happened...
As some of you may know, I've been frequenting a website called Runner's World. After whining and complaining on their discussion boards about how I had nothing to do this weekend, I got a message from a girl named Katie that just moved to DC last week - she wanted to hang out! Yay! So we made some plans and I headed into the city. We had dinner at a fabulous Italian restaurant called Sesto Senso, then we went to a couple of bars for a couple of drinks. We ended up meeting up with an old high school friend of her's, his friend and his friends' girlfriend. It was a really fun night! I'm so glad I've met someone new and young and fun - hopefully we'll get to hang out again soon. It will sure help to make these couple of months go faster if I have someone to spend my weekends with.
Jeremy is doing fine overseas. He's been working a minimum of 12 hours and sometimes up to 14 hours a day, so I think he's pretty exhausted. His routine seems to be sleep, eat, work, eat, and repeat. But he's keeping busy and I think he's been getting along with all his coworkers, so that's good. Oh, and apparently they were doing Jell-O shots the other night! Ha! I still miss him terribly and some days are much harder than others, but at least I get to speak with him every night and we usually send a couple of emails back and forth during the day. I have no idea how military folks do this - at least I know where he is, I know that he's as safe as he can be over there, and I know that he'll be back in just a couple of short months. If he was doing this because he's in the military he'd be gone for a year or maybe 18 months, he'd be out in dangerous areas, taking fire, and I probably wouldn't get to talk to him nearly as often. So, even though I still hate that he's away, I guess I don't have it so bad after all.
