: Life is hard. God is good. We need each other.
When I got word that my Chick-fil-A Mom Panel was being tasked with creating recipes for kids I knew just the little sweetie I wanted to help me make mine. After all, my kids are teenagers, and one is officially an adult (yikes!) so they don’t really qualify to help me out with ‘kids’ recipes. If you have littles, like my friend Scarlett here, you’ll want to work with them on this recipe. But if your kids are a bit older, this is totally something they could do on their own.
Herb & garlic skillet chicken. A quick meal that is rich and savory. We serve ours over rice, but noodles would be yummy too!
Do you remember where you’ve gotten most of your recipes? I remember a lot of them. Isn’t it fun, when you’re making something, to think back to where you got the recipe, or who you got it from?
I got this recipe for herb and garlic skillet chicken decades ago. Back when Barnes & Noble still had lots of big, comfy chairs in them, my husband and I used to go there for cheap, newlywed dates. I’d get a cup of coffee, and we’d sit for hours. Reading, talking about what we were reading. And since it was back before Pinterest, I would copy recipes from the magazines and books I’d read onto scraps of paper in my purse.
So I’m sorry to whoever created this recipe, but I didn’t record my sources….and, it’s been over 20 years.
Bacon in the oven is the easiest way to make bacon with much less mess! No splattering, no tending and clean-up is a breeze.
I didn’t cook bacon for years. Isn’t that sad?
It was the splatter factor. I couldn’t get past it. Do you struggle with that too? The splatter was messy, for one thing. But it was the pain that I just couldn’t deal with.
And then I discovered this easy method for making bacon in the oven and it changed everything!
Chicken Parmesan Bites. Crispy, tasty, and easy! This recipe is much less fuss than a traditional chicken parmesan, perfect for a weeknight meal.
There is a time for lengthy, involved recipes. They often yield some of the most tasty creations, that make the time invested totally worth it. And then there’s a time for brevity. And oh the joy when an easy recipe yields an amazing result! Angels sing!
My mom gave me a chicken parmesan recipe when I moved out that I made lots of times to rave reviews. It involved the traditional steps of dipping chicken breasts in an egg mixture and breadcrumbs, browning in oil, then baking with cheese and marinara. Delish!
These chicken parmesan bites, however, are much more likely to make it to the dinner table. They’re a snap to make and are so flavorful!
This quick chicken teriyaki and sesame noodles come together in a snap. It’s an easy weeknight meal that tastes like you ordered out!
Have you ever really wanted to like something, but you just didn’t? Part of dating is finding out what someone’s ‘quirks’ are and deciding if you’re good with that particular kind of crazy. Things like weird fears, how they handle illness, or listening to parade music for fun.
When we were dating, Greg confessed that he hated Chinese food. (Gasp!) What he actually said was “I really want to like it…everyone always looks like they’re having so much fun when they eat it.” When I was pregnant, he was kind and went with me to Chinese restaurants. Being a lover of rice dishes like jambalaya, the fried rice began to grow on him. Then a young man from Cambodia that he worked with brought homemade egg rolls to share and my picky eating husband surprisingly tried them…and loved them.
Since then, he’s found a few dishes that he enjoys (beef and broccoli, for example) at restaurants. But he much prefers when I make Asian-inspired recipes at home, like this chicken teriyaki and sesame noodles.
I’m kind of obsessed.
It was one of those nights. I was just ‘checking a few things’ before going to bed. An hour later…
Well, an hour later, I had watched an hour of videos by the most charming Irish woman, Gemma (who I was pretty sure was going to be my new best friend), and had about a dozen recipes bookmarked and visions of tasty mug meals dancing in my head.
I made it my mission over the next few weeks to try a bunch of her recipes so I could share them with you. There’s a bit of a learning curve, to be sure. After all, cooking in the microwave is quite different. And I did find some ways to tweak her recipes to make them work for me. But all in all…two thumbs up!