Lemon Pepper Chicken and Rice

That's the tree this morning. It seems to be at peak if not a bit past it already. Pretty much everything near our house is at peak, which is nice.

The Newtster was not feeling particularly inspired to cook tonight and therefore will keep this post appropriately succinct. I purchased the makings for three separate meals today (you will see the other two later in the week probably) and gave Julia "ladies' choice" on what we have. She went with Lemon Pepper Chicken and Rice tonight.

All I did for this one was marinate a package of chicken breasts for a few hours in a mixture of soy sauce and fresh lemon juice (1/2 a lemon). I threw this in a baking dish with a little more soy sauce and the juice from the other half of the lemon. Here's where it gets CRAZY. I sprinkled McCormick Lemon & Pepper Seasoning Salt on top of the breasts before baking them for 35 minutes at 375°.

Julia asked me to get some more frozen broccoli for her and I also picked up some frozen sweet corn. I threw the corn in with the rice once it was done cooking and Julia also added some broccoli to hers.

It was exactly what we both wanted in a dinner and seemed to be a bit tastier than when I prepared this in the past. If you are short on ideas for dinner, just marinate some meat in soy sauce and throw some seasoning on it. It's good.

(Note: I couldn't get the flash to work on the picture of the food on the plate and just gave up because I wanted to eat it. As a result, everything looks very dull, which it pretty much is since it's only chicken and rice after all.)