You know it’s been a while when you log onto WordPress and you have not one, but seven, updates to be installed. Now how did that happen?
The good news? I can officially call Southern California my home again. I’ve successfully moved back over the past week and am slowly trying to turn a house into a home. I even had to do my first “grown up” purchases this past week. Shopping for a refrigerator is a lot easier than buying a couch.
Our refrigerator shopping was pretty painless since we had a very small space in the kitchen for it and there were only three refrigerators that could fit into the space. Obviously, we went with the cheapest one (helloooo wedding payments and student debt!).
Our couch shopping experience was exactly the opposite of that. We went into a furniture store and saw an ad for a mix and match furniture set for only $1099. We found one that we liked and went to make the purchase. Long story short: the couch that we chose wasn’t supposed to be on the ad and the manager refused to sell it to us as advertised.
Fast forward a couple of days later and numerous emails/phone calls to corporate, their twitter, facebook, and the BBB, we finally got a phone call today that they would honor their ad. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just do that in the first place.
I mean, they even left the ad up after several days and didn’t change it after the whole fiasco with us. You’d think that a company would fix their mistake after a problem with a customer so that it’s not repeated again in the future. Nope, they decided to take their chances. That’s ballsy.
So that’s that. We finally purchased a couch and a refrigerator. Now we’re just waiting for all of the pieces to be delivered so that we don’t have to sleep on the floor anymore (we’re also waiting on our mattress). I love sleeping on the floor, but my DF can’t stand it for the life of him.
I have yet to try making a meal in the kitchen yet since we didn’t have a refrigerator the first three days we lived in this apartment. Now that we have a fridge, I still have to go to the grocery store to stock it. Oh, the joys of moving.
It was also 104 degrees the day we moved in. Goodness gracious, LA!
I’m actually craving a home cooked meal right now. We had to eat out the past couple of days (again, no refrigerator) for every single meal. As luxurious as that sounds, it actually kind of sucks.
Even a simple pasta dish like this sounds great right about now, just as long as it’s made in my kitchen!
This pasta was very simple and had tons of lemon flavor. I liked how the spinach and roma tomatoes added a little bit of color to the plain looking dish.
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb angel hair pasta
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 t. crushed red pepper
- Perfect Chicken, cut into chunks
- 2 lemons, zested and juiced
- 3/4 c. heavy cream
- 1 c. Parmesan, grated (or shredded)
- 1 c. baby spinach, stems removed
- 1/2 c. roma plum tomatoes, halved
- 3 T. extra virgin olive oil
Directions
- Cook the pasta according to the instructions on the box. Drain and reserve 2-3 tablespoons of the pasta water.
- In a large skillet over low heat, cook the oil, garlic, and crushed pepper. Cook until the oil sizzles (about 7-10 minutes).
- Add in lemon juice, heavy cream, and the reserved pasta water to the garlic oil mixture. Cook over medium low heat until it just starts to bubble.
- Add the pasta, zest, and 3/4 c. Parmesan to the cream sauce. Toss for a minute or two.
- Add chicken, spinach, and tomatoes and mix evenly. Top with remaining cheese.
This looks so good! congrats on your grown-up purchases! I totally remember calling my dad when i bought my first washer. It’s such a weird thing to be excited about!
What is perfect chicken?
Are you sure that you mean 2 tsp. of red pepper flakes? I made this recipe as written but couldn’t finish it. Too spicy.
yes, but we’re huge fans of spice over in my house. i usually put that on my own bowl! you can always adjust to your tastes. if you don’t like spicy at all, don’t add it in.
Hi there! I was wondering how you cooked your chicken and what did you season it with 🙂
hi! i made “perfect chicken.” recipe can be found here: https://lovintheoven.com/perfect-chicken/
This is a terrible recipe. I followed it to a T. The pasta was cooked perfectly but my family couldn’t even eat it. We love bold flavours but the garlic, lemon and pepper flakes called for, were twice what they should have been. No balance at all. Will stick to Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsey, America’s Test Kitchen etc. recipes from now on.