Chicken Parm, and Pasta with Spinach and Garlic Butter

Tonight was Jake(17 yrs.) and Dakota's(12 yrs) night to cook dinner as is every Saturday, it is also family game night.

I actually started it last night by making them bread crumbs. They wanted me to buy some but why buy something you can make...right? I took some stale bread cubed it, drizzled it with olive oil, dried basil, oregano, and garlic pepper. Put them on a cookie sheet, and in a 425 degree oven for 15 minutes. Let them cool place them in a zip lock bag and crush.

Tonight they took skinless boneless chicken thighs, dipped them in 2 beaten eggs, then into the bread crumbs, placed them on a cookie sheet that had been sprayed with cooking spray, put them in a 425 degree oven for 15 minutes or until crisp. They took them out placed them in a baking dish, covered it with pasta sauce, mozzarella, and parmesan , but them back in the oven until the cheese was melted and bubbly and chicken was cooked through.

Meanwhile they put a pan of water on to boil, cooked a 1 lb of penne. While that was cooking they took a large deep skillet melted some butter(they would not give me the amounts), along with 5 or more cloves of chopped garlic, basil, and oregano,  then wilted a large bag of baby spinach. When the pasta was done, they drained it and added it to the sauce, Toss it together.

The for dessert they made a smore's brownie. First the crushed up 1 package of graham crackers, added a couple tbls melted butter,(no garlic this time...lol) about a tbls sugar, and a tsp of vanilla. They pressed that down in the bottom of a 9x9 pan. They cheated and used a box of dark chocolate brownie mix, they put that on top of the graham cracker crust, put chocolate chips(rice chips) on top of that, put them in a 375 degree oven for 30 minutes, they took them out and put mini marshmallows on top and put them back into the oven for an additional 5 minutes. Then take them out and let cool slightly( with us we like warm brownies). They topped it with whipped cream before serving.
They made another great meal!!!