Rosemary Chicken...

Chicken night!!!  If you have been following the previous posts you already know that my darling husband/best friend is not a chicken guy.  But he is a rosemary guy so sometimes I can get him to eat something just because it has rosemary on it.  The sides for chicken is always green beans and smashed potatoes for me so that rounded out the dinner menu.

Rosemary Chicken
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 Tbs olive oil
1 clove garlic minced
2 sprigs rosemary
salt and pepper

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Put the olive oil in an oven safe pan and put on medium heat on the stove top.  Add the rosemary sprigs and garlic and let it infuse the oil for about a minute.  Pat the chicken dry and salt and pepper it liberally.  Move the rosemary out of the pan and put the chicken in top side down.  If you can't tell which is the top side and which is the bottom it probably won't matter.  Brown the chicken for five minutes.  Turn the chicken over and brown the other side for five minutes.  Place the rosemary sprigs back on top of the chicken and put it in the oven for approx. twenty-five minutes.  Be sure to check it's temperature and make sure it gets to 165.  The time in the oven will depend on the size of your pieces of chicken.  I always start checking mine at fifteen minutes and then go from there in five minute increments.

Green Beans
3 handfuls of green beans cleaned and broken in two
1 onion sliced thinly
3 cloves garlic chopped
1/8 cup chicken stock
1 Tbs olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Put oil in the pan on medium high.  When it is hot put in the onion and garlic and cook for a few minutes, until the onion starts to soften.  Add the green beans and generously salt and pepper.  Add in the chicken stock.  Put a lid on the pan and turn it down to medium low so the green beans can steam a little.They take about the same amount of time as the chicken does once it is in the oven.  But please, pull out a bean and test it.  See if you want more salt and pepper.  It's so important to taste as you go!

Garlic Smashed Potatoes
2 potatoes cut into even size cubes
2 Tbs butter (I use I Can't Believe It's Not Butter)
1 Tbs garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste

Cook the potatoes until fork tender.  Drain well and add the other ingredients and smash with the potato smasher until they are the consistency you like.  We like ours a little chunky.

Wonderful meal, if I do say so myself.  Satisfied and full.  What more could you ask for from a meal?