September 14th: Cinnamon chicken with sweet potato and zucchini with goat's cheese and pine nuts

No rest for the weary. Literally. Tonight was going to be my night off, but I got a call for an emergency sub at the gym. Oh, the things I do for my friends. Day five of six in a row of teaching BodyFlow, and oh yes, I attended my lunch time yoga class today. The question is, will I attend tomorrow? Weather-dependent; tomorrow's yoga is on the lawn of Parliament Hill. This would all be fine, fine, fine, if I did not also have to work 8 hour days. And sleep? I must find time for some.

Tonight's class was a later one, so I had time to do most of the work for supper, and Greg was left to finish it, plate it, and photograph it. Tonight's supper was delicious, or so I thought when I ate it at 9:00 p.m., in a hungry state. Since I have finally convinced Greg to love goat's cheese as I do, it turns out that it is the secret to get him to enjoy zucchini, which I love. In fact, tonight's meal consisted of five of my favourite foods.

I took liberties with tonight's recipes. From September 2010's Chatelaine: Cinnamon Chicken with Sweet Potato. The original recipe called for butternut squash; I subbed in sweet potato. O and I could eat sweet potatoes til the cows come home, but G doesn't agree, so next time, for his sake, I will throw in some toasted pecans and top with brown sugar. 

From Epicurious: Zucchini with goat's cheese and pine nuts. This one I altered heavily. I sliced the zucchini in rounds and pan-fried, then topped with the dressing, to which I added sugar and Dijon. I actually forgot to include the salt; oops. I didn't bother with the basil, and I topped with goat's cheese instead of Parmesan. So it was really nothing like the original recipe, but it was amazing! I singed my tongue eating a few rounds of zucchini hot out of the frying pan before I zipped off to the gym.

As a side note, the zucchini recipe called for eating raw zucchini, which I've never done. I keep reading about raw food diets and they almost always talk about eating zucchini "ribbons." So I may try it yet. Pan-fried zucchini is just oh so good though.

Night.