Sunday dinner

For our Sunday dinner we had London Broil, roasted potatoes and salad. I love to cook in my dutch oven. I really need to get a good iron skillet but I don't have any where to store it so I just stick to my dutch oven.

Lemon Chicken

I love to cook but cooking in the summer is not my favorite thing.While I love summer in some ways in ( think lazy days) the thing I really dislike the most is heating the kitchen up when cooking. I avoid baking as much as I can during the summer. This summer our grill is not working so that has made things little harder. I am always looking for new recipes and today I found a good one for Lemon Chicken. Of course I don't ever follow the recipes I use them more as guide lines....so here it is with the way I cooked it :)

4 boneless chicken breast ( pounded thin or buy chicken cutlets )

1 large onion sliced ( I used a sweet onion)

2-3 cloves of garlic pressed

olive oil

butter

flour

salt

pepper

1 lemon

chicken broth

*squeeze juice out of lemon

*heat a skillet put in about 2-3 T of olive oil add onions and garlic cook until the onions are translucent about 3 minuets

*remove onions and garlic from pan

*Add butter about 1 T

*put flour on a plate or baking dish add salt and pepper to taste (I have no idea how much I use we don't do a lot of salt so I don't use as much). Dredge each piece of chicken in the flour mixture.

*put chicken in pan and cook on medium heat for about 2-3 minuets on each side or until golden brown.

*remove chicken from pan

* add about 1 1/2 cups of chicken broth and lemon juice let come to a boil

* add the onions and chicken back to the pan and let cook for about 5 minuets.

I know there are a lot of steps but it was done in less than 25 minuets from start to finish.

I think the next time I make this I may wilt a bag of spinach in the pan the last couple of minuets.

Marshmallows

This year for Christmas I decided to give homemade marshmallows and coco to all of Chase's teachers. I ended up making two batches for nine teachers ( 7 are men). I used Alton Brown's recipe which I have used before and love. We packaged the marshmallows in clear bags with white ribbon, and put the coco, marshmallows and card in a gift bag. I wish we could have done more but with that many teachers it just isn't going to happen. Here are a few photos of the marshmallows in process.

mixing for 12-15 minutes

resting in the pan

cutting time

It is a messy process but they are so worth it!!

Have you ever made marshmallows? Did you mix in any flavors? I was going to make peppermint ones with crushed peppermints on top but I didn't get to it this year.

Hot Chocolate on a stick

Photo from Sprinkle Bakers

I was over at Be Different ...Act Normal and found this link which sent me to this link for these...Hot Chocolate on a stick!! YUM

Pretzle Hug Yummies

If you love chocolate covered pretzels you will like theses. They are easy and kid friendly to make. I am not sure where we got the recipe from. My mother in law was the first to make these and now we make them every Christmas.

What you will need.

Hugs (It take a little over one bag of Hugs to do a pan)
Pretzels
M & M's

*Pre heat oven 200F
*Unwrap Hugs
*I line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper and then put a layer of pretzels.
*Put a Hug on each pretzel
*Put pan with Hug and Pretzels on it in oven for 10-12 minuets
*after you remove pan from oven press an M&M into the center of each Hug
*place in refrigerator until firm.
*store in an airtight container.

I make bags of these to give to friends each year. They are a favorite and I always have people ask if I am going to make them.

They are fun to make and the kids like to unwrap the Hugs and place them on the pretzels. Now that my boys are older they like to put the M& M on top too.

Have fun!

Popcorn Balls

I found this at the BHG website. This would be so cute to use as table decorations for a party and then send home as a favor. I think these would be cute to use in the spring and make them look like funny bugs.

Do you have a good recipe for popcorn balls? I would love to have it.

How many have you tried? I'v had 63

I found this here and thought it was fun. You can click on most of the items and it will take you to a recipe or site that explains what it is or where it is from. I see I have a lot of things I need to try. while I did not cross off anything on the list there are somethings I want to try more than others

1) Copy this list into your site, including the instructions!
2) Bold all of the sweets you've eaten--or make them a different type color.
3) -Cross out any of them that you'd never ever eat.
4) Consider anything that is not bold or crossed out your "To Do" List.
5) Optional: Post a comment here linking to your results--or just post a comment letting me know how many you've tried, or what you're going to try next!


1 Red Velvet Cake
2 Princess Torte
3 Whoopie Pie
4 Apple Pie either topped or baked with sharp cheddar
5 Beignet
6 Baklava
7 Black and white cookie
8 Seven Layer Bar (also known as the Magic Bar or Hello Dolly bars)
9 Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies)
10 Kringle
11 Just-fried (still hot) doughnut
12 Scone with clotted cream
13 Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy
14 Halvah
15 Macarons
16 Banana pudding with nilla wafers
17 Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls")
18 Dixie Cup
19 Rice Krispie treats
20 Alfajores
21 Blondies
22 Croquembouche
23 Girl Scout cookies
24 Moon cake
25 Candy Apple
26 Baked Alaska
27 Brooklyn Egg Cream
28 Nanaimo bar **This is the one I want to try!!!***NOW
29 Baba au rhum
30 King Cake
31 Sachertorte
32 Pavlova
33 Tres Leches Cake
34 Trifle
35 Shoofly Pie
36 Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime)
37 Panna Cotta
38 New York Cheesecake
38 Napoleon / mille-fueille
40 Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake
41 Anzac biscuits
42 Pizzelle
43 Kolache
44 Buckeyes
45 Malasadas
46 MalasadasMoon Pie
47 Dutch baby
48 Boston Cream Pie
49 Homemade chocolate chip cookies
50 Pralines
51 Gooey butter cake
52 Rusks
53 Daifuku
54 Green tea cake or cookies
55 Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
56 Crème brûlée
57 Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake)
58 Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
59 Jelly Roll
60 Pop Tarts
61 Charlotte Russe
62 An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside down cake or Tarte Tatin)
63 Hummingbird Cake
64 Jell-O from a mold
65 Black forest cake
66 Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
67 Kulfi
68 Linzer torte
69 Churro
70 Stollen
71 Angel Food Cake
72 Mincemeat pie
73 Concha
74 Opera Cake
75 Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
76 Pain au chocolat
77 A piece of Gingerbread House
78 Cassata
79 Cannoli
80 Rainbow cookies
81 Religieuse
82 Petits fours
83 Chocolate Souffle
84 Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
85 Rugelach
86 Hamenstashen
87 Homemade marshmallows
88 Rigo Janci
89 Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc)
90 Divinity
91 Coke or Cola cake
92 Gateau Basque
93 S'mores
94 Figgy Pudding
95 Bananas foster or other flaming dessert
96 Joe Froggers
97 Sables
98 Millionaire's Shortbread
99 Animal crackers
100Basbousa