First happy birthday to my wonderful husband, John, who cooks all the animal proteins in our dinners! Second, my dining experience eating Italian food on our trip home was pretty good. I brought more than half of it home. So, yay me!

We are doing the actual celebrating of John’s birthday on Friday so tonight I bought a pre-cooked whole chicken. As I said, I don’t cook animal proteins. That is John’s job but, since it was his birthday and he wanted chicken, my solution was to buy one already cooked!

I also made a warm potato salad dressed with olive oil and rice vinegar and prepared a salad. It was all tasty and John had a happy birthday. (P.S. I also don’t make desserts so no birthday cake!)

Store bought chicken with warm potato salad and a green salad