Coconut curry chicken/ Ratatouille

So I decided to have a little fun with dinner this week.
One night, I cooked curry coconut chicken, and the next I cooked Ratatouille. Both delicious, but I should have worked harder on the chicken dish.

Coconut curry chicken
-organic chicken breast
-crushed cashews mixed with shredded coconut
-1/2 cup low fat coconut milk 1/2 cup regular nonfat milk
-curry paste- 1 tablespoon

I dipped the chicken, cut into slices, in the cocunut milk/regular milk/curry paste mixture, and then rolled in the cashews/coconut mixture.
Baked at 400 degrees for around 15 minutes
Placed on a bed of spinach

*The only thing that I felt needed changing-- adding more curry for more flavor. It was a very interesting dish, though.

Then, I made Ratatouille from my "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" cookbook.

Basically, ratatouille is a very flavorful mix of vegetables, cooked in olive oil. I added pita chips on the side. Ratatouille= "Eggplant casserole" in French.
The cookbook had a recipe to serve 6 or more, and since I feed just myself, I lowered ingredients a bit. It still made a lot, and I've been eating the leftovers.
Ingredients
-2 tomatoes
-1 yellow onion
-1 zucchini
-1 eggplant
-1 Green pepper
-1 tablespoon garlic
-olive oil- 4 to 5 tablespoons

-I cut the eggplant and the zucchini in to lengthwise strips, and salted them so water would drain out of them. After 10 minutes, I patted them dry and then sauted them in hot olive oil for a minute on each side, and afterward removed them to a side dish. Then, in the olive oil, I cooked the onion and zucchini I had cut up in the same hot olive oil for 10 minutes, and added the garlic and cut up tomatoes. I cooked covered for five minutes, and then arranged all vegetables in the casserole- 1 layer of eggplant/zucchini, one layer of tomato mixture etc. Then I heated in the oven on low for 10 minutes.
It was very flavorful- more so than you would think! And delicious.

Hopefully I will start cooking a couple of interesting meals like this a week :)