Here we go again. My haters were home on a Sunday night, the last night my step son was in town before he returned to his college town for a second semester of debachery, borderline inappropriate social media capturing behavior and fattening cafeteria food. I had to get in one last lick while I had the chance.

I asked if my brood wanted to spend the last night at some crowded restaurant on a wait list for the best sushi in town. Yack and Max said yes, Pants said no.

I decided to cook up what was in my fridge and pantry. Easy peasy. Intimate. Dinner table. Cheap. And those who cook, don't have to clean up - a rule in our house. I yanked out the following: 

* chicken breast

* lemon

* mushrooms

* quinoa & kale - I will show you a secret

* rock shrimp

* pine nuts

* tajin (duh!)

* lemon pepper

* pesto (just a little)

*broccoli

* parmeasan for table additions 

Looks like a lot, but it's not. This is the crap I keep in my fridge/cuboards on a constant basis. Take note.

Here's a pic of what I did to the chicken (I took the pesto, tajin, a little olive oil, lemon pepper, mushrooms) and threw it all in a sauce pan on medium heat and sat in a chair by the fire, grabbed a glass of red and self actualized.

That's right. You are feasting your eye holes on green chicken breasts. To top off the green craze, I threw together quinoa and kale. I boiled the quinoa and slaved over the crispy kale. If you don't want to do that, hightail it to Costco and get the quinoa/kale bag. I would never do that to cut corners:

Just go to Costco, okay? Make life easy on yourself, even though I don't, obviously. Once you put your Costco concoction into a pan, throw in your fave tasty spices, along with some lemon and a handful of parm. I even picked up a bag of frozen rock shrimp when I wasn't at Costco cutting corners and threw that into my dream pot, let it cook for about 15 minutes and presto: my teenage son, my six year old son, and 54 year old son was none the wiser. We feasted like kings and they fell asleep full and happy.

Here's a "before" pic when I presented the meal:

And here's after they stuffed their pie holes with crap like kale, quinoa and chicken: