Category Archives: Cooking

Weekend Cooking-Marinated Chicken

March 23, 2012

I love having the weekends to take my time and prepare a meal from start to finish, I find it so satisfying-even more so when it turns out tasting so good. I purchased some drumsticks from the store and had in mind to marinate them. I found a recipe but adapted it to what I had/my liking. It was supposed to be all lemon juice but I didn’t have enough so I added a lime and an orange. Here it goes…

1/3 cup citrus juice (I used lemon/lime/orange)

2 TBSP zest (lemon/lime)

2 TBSP thyme (from my garden)

1 TBSP rosemary (from my garden)

2 cloves of crushed garlic

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

1 tsp crushed red pepper

Whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl

Cut slices into the chicken pieces (I used 6 drumsticks with this recipe) and add chicken/marinade to plastic bag and let sit in refrigerator for 2 hours

Cook at 425 degrees until the internal temp of the chicken is 160 degrees F (it took about 45 mins for me)

I served with rice, arugula salad, and green beans

Enjoy!

Weekend Breakfast is Best

March 18, 2012

I love eating breakfast! Sadly during the week I don’t have time to cook elaborate and delicious breakfasts so it usually ends up being more of an European style breakfast with salami, cheese, and bread. Still quite good but I also really like to cook. So on the weekends I try to make a larger breakfast at least once. This weekend I made scrambled eggs with asparagus, arugula, potatoes, and onions with chives on top, cherry wood smoked bacon, buttermilk and currant scones (kind of a specialty of mine at this point), and fresh squeezed orange juice. Yum! It was so delicious! I love how in the last photo you can see the flecks of pepper Walker was sprinkling over my plate. What do you like to cook on the weekends?

Soup is my Favorite!

March 14, 2012

What better to eat during the rainy, cool weekend then soup! I made a huge batch of corn chowder and ate it all weekend long (Walker helped some). On the second day though I thought it would be nice to add some greens to it so I cooked up some spinach and piled it on top of our bowls. Mmmm it was sooo good! If you have some soup recipes you think I should have please please share them in the comments below!