Giving Up Greed or, rather, the InGREEDient: The Best Laid Plans . . . . . Sometimes Go Awry

I had planned to make Lazy Baked Greek Chicken for dinner yesterday. I pulled the chicken breasts out of the freezer on my lunch break, and put them in a Tupperware container and left it on the kitchen counter in the corner where it couldn't be reached by my four legged friend. Somehow, though, when I got home from work, the Tupperware was on the floor (open); and the chicken was nowhere to be found. My only suspect met me at the door with her head down, and hasn't looked me in the eye since. So I settled for an omelet for dinner.

Today, I played it safe, and put the chicken in the microwave on my lunch break. If she had been able to get it out of there, we would be on our way to join the circus right now.

Lazy Baked Greek Chicken
Adapted from Every Day with Rachel Ray
(I couldn't find the recipe on the website - I got it directly from the magazine)

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp EVOO
1/2 a medium onion - finely chopped
3 large cloves garlic - minced
1 10 oz package chopped spinach
Salt & Pepper
Nutmeg
3 Tbsp Butter
1 cup breadcrumbs
1 tsp Oregano
4 skinless boneless chicken breasts
1/2 cup crumbled greek feta cheese

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425
Heat 1 Tbsp EVOO in a small skillet
Add the onion and 2/3 of the garlic and cook until softened
Transfer to a bowl, and cool - then add the spinach and season with salt pepper and nutmeg
Melt the butter in the same skillet then turn off heat
Add the breadcrumbs, remaining garlic and oregano - toss
Split each chicken breast across (but not all the way through) and open like a book
Stuff with the spinach mixture and the feta cheese allowing it to overflow a bit
Place in a lightly oiled baking dish and then sprinkle the breadcrumb mixture on top