Wii & Chicken Parmesan

Mack has been addicted to the Wii Motion Plus he got for Christmas. We have loved playing the Frisbee Dog Throw, Three Point Shoot Out and the Island Flyover.

Monday was a day of major wintery comfort food. I came home from work feeling this need to cook a lot of super soul satifsying goodies.

Main course was Chicken Parmesan with a green salad. I made the overly cheesy version, but am posting probably a version I like a bit better than won't induce major heartburn. Mack kind of likes this version better too--he really likes the spinach pasta. This is from the Body for Life Cookbook:

2 Egg whites

1/3 cup Italian-seasoned breadcrumbs

4 tbsp Reduced-fat parmesan cheese, grated, divided

2 portions or 1/2 lb Chicken breast

2 portions or 4 oz Uncooked spinach pasta (you can find this at Harmon's)

1 cup Low-fat pasta sauce

2 cups Baby spinach leaves

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 400.

2. In a medium mixing bowl, beat egg whites with fork until slightly frothy. Then, mix breadcrumbs and 2 tbsp of reduced-fat Parmesan cheese in a pie plate.

3. Dip chicken breasts into egg whites and then into the breadcrumb mixture, coating both sides.

4. Lightly coat a baking sheet with cooking spray. Place chicken breasts on the baking sheet; bake for approx. 12 minutes. Turn over and bake another 12 minutes, until chicken is no longer pink in the center and coating is golden brown.

5. While the chicken is baking, prepare spinach pasta according to its package directions.

6. In a small saucepan, warm pasta sauce over medium heat.

7. Divide spinach leaves between two separate plates. Layer portions of warm spinach pasta and baked chicken breasts over spinach leaves. Top with pasta sauce and remaining Parmesan cheese. Serve.

& then we ended the night with these...

Golden Graham Treats. Sigh. Perfection!