Man, I stink (and Chicken Adventures 1)

Well, some good job of updating I've done this past month. I've been cooking a lot, staying close to this Montignac plan as best I can, and overall doing not much in my unemployment-ness :p No excuses for not updating regularly but now I have so many pictures and posts floating around in my head, I have not much choice. So here we go.

First chicken adventure: Whole Grain fried chicken. I mixed whole wheat flour, flaxseed meal, and parmesean cheese for this breading. I wasn't thrilled with how it came out just b/c I like really crispy crunchy fried chicken.... but it wasn't bad, even if it doesn't really fit perfectly into the Montignac tenets b/c whole wheat flour has a glycemic index above 35.

So anyway, here's the breading:



And the chicken breaded:



And the finish product (ignore the brown rice, it didn't come out well ;))





Second chicken adventure: Garlic-y quinoa with grilled chicken. While looking for grains that have a glycemic index of below 35 that i can eat with meats, I decided to try quinoa. What I did here was saute it to toast it up, in a little garlic, then boil it per package directions.






I marinated the chicken in simple olive oil, a little red wine vinegar, lots of garlic, etc.:




finished meal (sorry for the blurriness, I suck):