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So This is my 100th post on this website. And I decided, as is common practice in many other places on the internet, to celebrate this Milestone with something special. Mind you not something All-out special, but something more than a usual post. I honestly don't know if doing milestone posts is traditional here, but I'm just gonna do it anyway. A little backstory: Until 10 days ago, I never really cooked anything on my own. When I was a kid, a while ago, I used to help my Mother or Grandmother sometimes, but the last few years it's only been frozen food or cold (usually bread with cheese/sausage/some veggies). So I am probably not one of the best cooks yet, but I will be at least decent in a couple weeks. What I usually cook is easy, fast and paleo (since starting paleo I had no choice but to man up and learn to cook). Such as this pan fried chicken breast. I improved this recipe over the course of a whole week, and I actually quite like the results I've reached. I'll keep tweaking it until its perfect though. (This is gonna emphasise on the chicken portion of the meal, cause I usually just cook some frozen veggies along with it) This is gonna be a recipe targeted at people who are bad cooks, haven't cooked before or are just starting out like me. I'm gonna go through the instructions one by one List of Ingredients: Chicken Breast (since I cook only for myself mostly, I make as many as I am going to eat) Olive Oil 1 (Tablespoon) Onion (about half an onion per breast) Garlic cloves (1.5 per breast) Dill (1 teaspoon) Thyme (1 teaspoon) Pepper Salt A slice of Lemon Instructions: I usually start my mixing the marinade for my chicken. Put half(!) a tblspoon of Olive Oil into some kind of Bowl or (advanced) tupperware with a lid. Add Salt, Pepper, Garlic, Dill, Thyme and Lemonjuice. If you're like me and love the taste of lemon, you can go up to a quarter of lemon per chicken breast (caution: will be VERY lemony). Mix the ingredients in the bowl. Remember to wash your hands before and after handling your food! Especially with chicken, salmonella is a real concern. so WASH YOUR HANDS! Next up pick the delicous chicken off the Bones(sorry don't know the correct term. The point is seperate the bone from the meat), after that cut it into mouth sized pieces. I usually only touch the chicken with my off-hand, and hold the knife in my main. With a little practice you can easily keep one hand clean. Once your Chicken is all cut up, put it into the marinade and mix it. If you chose the advanced way, close the tupperware and just shake it. If you portioned your oil right, there should be nothing left in the bowl. Now you can either let the chicken sit for a while (makes the meat absorb the flavours better) or chose to move directly to the next step. This is the point where I usually start cooking my side veggies (I like broccoly, Red Cabbage, Carrots, or veggie mixes; they all come from the frozen food department of my convenience store. Remember where you used to pick up that disgusting frozen pizza? Right next to that.) The Box usually says how long they need to cook, so keep a lookout for that. Next up, pan frying the chicken. Put the other half of the tblspoon of olive oil into your pan, and heat up your oven. Once the oil is nice and warm, put the diced (Did I mention that? Your onions should be diced by now) Onions into the pan, and sauté them (meaning fry 'em for a little while). Remember to lower the temperature of your oven for this. When the onions start to turn brown, but are still a little bit crisp, add the chicken into the pan. Let it fry for a while, then turn the pieces. Alternately you can also just stir the pan a few times. Make sure nothing scorches to your pan. If you time it right the veggies and chicken will be done at the same time, put onto a plate, enjoy your delicious selfmade meal! At first seperating the meat from the bones can be tricky, but it gets really easy after 2 or 3 times. Dicing onions is also done really quickly if you know what your doing. Overall expenditure of time 20-30 minutes. This is one fast, delicious recipe, and all usual excuses are invalid here (got no time, can't cook, don't want to wash my cooking stuff)