Next recipe - Dijon Chicken

The next recipe I tried was Dijon Chicken. I got the recipe out of a magazine, so I can't post a link, but it's really very easy.
The recipe called for 6 chicken boneless breasts, but I decided to use only 2, to make sure we liked it before I sacrificed all that chicken to a dish we didn't like.
So you brown your chicken breasts in 3T of butter over medium high heat in a skillet for 4ish minutes on each side.
Remove chicken from skillet and brown 1 medium yellow onion and 1 thinly sliced red bell pepper in the butter until vegetables are tender.
In a separate bowl, whisk (that has an "h" in it? Wow) 1 14oz can of chicken broth, 3T of flour and 3T of Dijon mustard together. Return chicken to skillet and pour mustard mix over the chicken and vegetables. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes or until chicken is done.
This was really, really good! I have also loved having Dijon mustard on sandwiches here lately, so I don't know why I haven't been using it all along. I had extra sauce left over, since I didn't use as much chicken as it called for, so I just froze the remaining sauce for the next time I brown some chicken in the skillet. I'll just reheat the sauce and pour it over the plain breasts.
So this was a keeper. Yay!
One more new recipe tonight, and then I'm taking a week off! Back to the same old recipes next week!:)

Another recipe review

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/cheesy-baked-shells-broccoli-00000000006575/

I tried this one last night. I added two boneless breasts of chicken that I sauteed (Who knew that word had two "e"s? Huh.) in the iron skillet with seasonings. Then I just chunked them up and threw them in with the rest of the stuff before I put it in to bake.

This was a great dish. Warm, easy and cozy good. Even Allen liked it, and he's not a huge fan of cheese. There was even enough for leftovers, which I really liked! A definite keeper!

My kids have comedy writers

Again, feel free to igore this post. It's just for me!

The kids have been hilarious here lately, and I just wanted to write this down somewhere. You know, so I can torture them later with these things.

Jude loves to find the book of Jude in his Bible. He turned there the other day, and he said, "Hey mom. Did a kid write Jude? It's really short."

Laney lost a tooth, and she said, with all sincerity and seriousness, "Mom, when I lost my tooth, did I lose my sweet tooth?" I really thought she was making a joke, but she wasn't. And no, I don't think we'll ever lose our sweet teeth...

Finally, Zane was highly upset when we put in a Veggie Tales movie. We don't watch them much, and I don't think he's ever really seen one. We are studying Esther, so Laney asked to watch that one. I put it in, and Zane got really upset. We asked him what was wrong, and he said he didn't like Veggie Tales. He was pretty upset about it too. I asked him why he didn't like them, and he had a list, that he very emphatically stated: "They don't have arms, they don't have legs, and THAT GUY (pointing at the screen) DOESN'T EVEN HAVE *EYES*...

I should add that he wasn't amused that we laughed after that speech...

Chicken Cacciatore Recipe

Here's the chicken cacciatore recipe:

(and I fixed the spelling on the precious title. Ugh.)

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/chicken-cacciatore-10000001536187/index.html

My review on the Chicken Cacciatore

I'm going through a "I hate everything I cook" phase. I gleaned some new recipes from the Real Simple website set off to Publix to get my ingredients. It was an expensive trip, but I didn't care. I was ready for some new food.

So this was my first recipe I tried. I can't post it from here, but I will later.

This recipe took 2 hours to make. The recipe told me that was going to happen, so I started at 4, and we ate at 6, which is a tad late for us. I was glad I planned ahead!

I saw a lady make a version of this recipe on the news last week, which is one reason I wanted to try this one. She said to use thighs and legs, which I did. I'm not sure I'll use them again, because I was so ready to eat, I didn't want to pull all the meat off the bone! :) I may try boneless breasts next time!

That said, this was SO good. I mean, it was "I can't believe I cooked this" good. So good. I made spaghetti to spoon the meat and sauce over, and just made a spinach salad to go with it. I had too much meat to go into my Dutch oven, so I just roasted some of the chicken legs in the oven for the kids. That was good for them!

I'll definitely make this again!!! Yum!!!

Just checking this out

My sweet friend Jackie found this great app for blogging, and I thought I'd try it. It's easy, so far! It'd be a great way to do a picture a day sort of thing. Hmmm...

As I hang out on the couch this morning, recovering from the sickness that won't die, I had time to play. Here's my iChalky person thingie. It's much cuter when she dances, but you get the idea. I need to get well. Now. ;)



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