Good dinner idea

Since the guys were going to work on the porch roof, I offered to help take care of the meals. I decided that for Friday night, I'd make a grilled chicken breast that my dad had done for me a month ago. It was received with rave reviews, so here's what I did:

Marinade
two parts olive oil and one part vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar)
I think I used one cup olive oil and half cup vinegar
two cloves chopped garlic
salt, pepper, chopped bay leaves (just a bit)
splash lime juice

I mixed up the marinade in a plastic container, transported it to Phoenix. Then when I got to the house, I threw the marinade in a large plastic bag with split chicken breasts. I left the chickens in the bag for almost two hours.

After leaving the chicken in for a couple hours, I fired up the grill. Then I took the already split chicken breasts, added sun dried tomatoes and used toothpicks to keep the sun dried tomatoes in the chicken. Then I threw them on the grill and served. Boyfriend made rice, and heated black beans and corn to go with the chicken.

The chicken came out tender and juicy. The sun dried tomatoes were tasty. And it all went nicely with the black beans and corn. Boyfriend wasn't sure if he'd like sun dried tomatoes, and boyfriend and his dad aren't big chicken fans. They both thanked my dad for giving me that recipe because they really liked it.

At least one thing went well this weekend

Instead of detailing all the things that went wrong this weekend, I'll leave it with how we left it. Boyfriend has a house in NW Phoenix and had built a deck and porch roof, and said roof was damaged by microburst. He thought it best to replace the entire thing, but it wasn't done Sunday early evening. Boyfriend's dad came with, but was left to finish the roof for the week. Boyfriend left at 4:30 PM for San Diego, and had to be at work at 6:00 AM (and had to unpack his truck before going to bed).

But Saturday night we all met at a restaurant to have dinner with my folks. It was late, because the guys had to work on the roof as long as possible, but we had a wonderful time. I think that if we didn't make leaving motions, my dad and boyfriend's dad would have stayed up all night drinking beer and talking.

Okay, two things went well this weekend - my best friend and I did a lot of shopping. She talked me into buying my first pair of thigh high boots, and outfit to go with it.