Mmmmm Ghetto Food Fabulous

I am a ghetto food aficionado. Joe's the actual worshipper of all things long, laborious and there fore delicioso in the food industry. I am the huge shortcut girl. Making your own chicken stock? Pish-shaw! So I'm always in search of the perfect recipes which means they don't take longer than half an hour and they use ingredients I have in my fridge. ...The latter option is more of a problem. View below:

This is my fridge. Contents:
-One plastic container of old grated Parmesan cheese
-Two containers of deli sliced honey ham mmmmm yum!
-Four bottles of water, one open
-One teeny thing of jell-o left over from when I was being a super cheap skate and decided to fill tiny gladware containers with jell-o
-One half filled thing of salsa
-Horse radish from when Joe made bloody mary's... six months ago...
-Pickles?
-Another half eaten jar of salsa
-A very old jar of Miracle Whip, but I don't think that stuff goes bad
-One seedless cucumber
-My leftovers and lunch for tomorrow in the gladware
-Half an onion
-Part of a garlic thingy that used to be whole but I had to throw half of it away because it started to sprout
-Asparagus
-Half a bag of pre-mixed spring greens

In the door:

-Two things of mustard
-Butta
-Three jars of empty salad dressing
-One jar of fat free Ranch that I will never eat
-One water bottle full of pear chipotle marinade mmmm
-One jar full of ginger soy marinade
-Half a thing of milk which is amazingly unspoiled
-Chai tea mix mmm

So what recipe could I possible find that would work?? THE BEST ONE EVA!!! Here is, courtesy of Better Homes magazine, a crazy good recipe I modified a wee bit so I could make it, and it was awesome.

Prep: 15 minutes
Grill: 12 minutes
Ingredients

• 4 medium skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (about 1 pound total) (frozen in my freezer yea!)
• 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil (leftover from when Joe and I attempted Chicken Curry. Note: Curry powder NOT the same as Curry paste... this took two tries)
  
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter (me gots the crunchy kind yea!!)
  
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce (every good single girl has at least leftover packets of this stuff)
  
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil (I used peanut oil... I like making popcorn on the stove and it's definitely the best for that - thanks Kate!)
  
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 4 French-style rolls, split (aw french my big white butt)
  
• 1/4 cup radish sprouts (yah cut this out)
  
• 1/2 cup packaged shredded broccoli (broccoli slaw mix) (how bouts spring greens?)
  
• 1/4 cup chopped peanuts (optional) (already included in the peanut butter! look at me I am a cooking multi-tasker!)
  

Directions
1. Rinse chicken; pat dry. Combine sesame oil and crushed red pepper; brush over chicken.
2. Grill chicken on the lightly greased rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium heat for 12 to 15 minutes or until tender and no longer pink, turning once.
3. Meanwhile, for sauce, in a small saucepan,* stir together sugar, peanut butter, soy sauce, oil, garlic, and 2 tablespoons water. Heat on grill rack until sugar is dissolved, stirring frequently. For the last 1 minute of grilling, place split rolls on the grill rack to toast. I definitely did not do this on the grill because I don't want to ruin what little pans I have. Also, little note to you... do NOT put the oil in first when the pan is hot and THEN the soy sauce KABOOM! There was smoke and soy sauce all up in my everywhere. The next time I put the soy sauce first when the pan was a lot cooler and it worked perfect. I guess the whole put is just to barely warm things up just so the sugar dissolves... Made me very glad I wasn't an over-achiever and decide to do it on the grill. Yah and screw the fancy shmancy rolls, I just put it right on my salad instant mix.
4. To serve, place cooked chicken breasts on bottom halves of rolls; spoon on sauce and top with radish sprouts, broccoli, peanuts (if desired), and roll tops. Makes 4 servings. Blah blah blah they're lucky I didn't eat it with my hands... No! I DID eat it with a fork and knife... but they said nothing about not licking the pan with the peanut sauce... mmmmmmmm
*Note: The heat from the grill will blacken the outside of the saucepan, so use an old one or a small cast-iron skillet.
Nutrition facts per serving: calories: 360; total fat: 14g; saturated fat: 3g; cholesterol: 59mg; sodium: 852mg; carbohydrate: 29g; fiber: 1g; protein: 28g; vitamin A: 3%; vitamin C: 14%; calcium: 4%; iron: 14%

So this really really turned out well. But I am totally stealing this peanut sauce. I will slather it on pasta, chicken, all over my body, everywhere!!! It is so daaaang good. Me loves me some peanut sauce, but there is only one kind that they sell at my grocery store and it's too spicy for my taste. I've looked at other recipes for it, but they are WAY more complicated and sometimes require a food processor?? Screw that - I'm lucky I have pots and pans. Although, after this wedding I will probably have the option of selling the Le Creuset to pay for Joe's school loans... It's nice to have assets to fall back on.

p.s. check out the picture on William Sonoma website.... awww gawd ::drools:: me loves me some lobster.

p.p.s. BONUS KIITTY PIC!!! On the window sill: