Now that we’ve officially ridden a sweet sugar high this week, it’s time to get back to the nutritional basics–good proteins and healthy fiber. We are maniacs for substituting ingredients. When we really want to make a dish, we just go for it hoping that what we have on hand will do. The craving for some sort of crusted chicken creation came on strong, and we had no bread crumbs. A crafty cook knows that you can easily make your own bread crumbs at home, but that only works if you have bread on hand. We did not. And we didn’t feel like making a run to the store for a crusty baguette. As is usually the case, there was a bag of nuts sitting in the freezer–pine nuts this time. Just enough to get us out of a quick run to the market.
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