Tiny Glow

Last night we created a fantastic home-made dinner sourced from two fairly simple recipes: lemon-marinated chicken and kale with pecans. The two dishes’ flavors paired together unexpectedly well, and both were recipes that even a novice in the kitchen like myself could put together. Win!

I was so excited about eating the dinner that I didn’t snap a picture—not that I have the SLR camera or the skills that the internet’s foodie bloggers have. But I did get to witness M gobbling down every last bite of his greens, which is worth more than a hundred photographs to me.

Although I’ve experimented with some lunchtime salads over the past week, this was probably my first time ever cooking up a dish of savory greens. The pecans and the kale brought out the best in each other and the dish was easy to make, a definite winner!

For those of you who are very comfortable and confident in the kitchen, I may not be able to adequately explain how triumphant I felt as we sat down to enjoy our meal last night. There is still so much I don’t know about preparing tasty and nutritious meals, but yesterday was a significant milestone for me and I know we will be eating lemon chicken and kale with pecans again before too long!