This will be my first full week as a blogger. I had a tutorial last night on how to add photos as well as how to photograph food so that it does not look like canned dog chow.....the chicken with vinegar tastes better than it looks....

I have featured photos that showcase ideas for chicken leftovers. James is enjoying the quesadillas I mentioned last week. I was also able to put some of the chicken into a salad with tomatoes and sliced roasted almonds. 4 boneless chicken thighs (less than 1 pound total) made into 3 meals!

This weekend was very busy with double header baseball and Divine Mercy Sunday celebration. Saturday night's dinner was another one of my specialties. Recipe to follow briefly. The kids were EXHAUSTED from 2 baseball games back to back in the heat and no naps! BUT they tasted skittles for the first time and that helped a lot. Rory rolled himself up like a burrito in the picnic blanket and took a quick nap under a tree. James went over to another field and watch the girls' softball game for awhile- we all got through. Being that we were all tired, I reverted to a well known "oldie but goodie."

CEREAL!

Ingredients:

- 1-2 boxes of cereal; one if you're a purist, 2 if you like to have a "mixture"

- milk, preferably 2% or whole

- optional add-ins: fruit

Technique:

- Pour the cereal into the bowl. Then proceed to add milk to reach about 1/2 way to the cereal. Insert spoon. Serve quickly for light flaky cereals with lots of ingredients. Note: If you are serving a dense cereal, like mini-wheats, we recommend that you let the cereal sit in the milk for about 30sec-1 min. to enhance texture.

- Be sure to drink the leftover milk from the bowl after you have finished as it will have a delicious sugary "kid-food" flavor that CANNOT be replicated.

Sunday was another busy day. We are currently house-hunting which is consuming our weekends. With only an hour to fix dinner, I reverted to what I know.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A CHICKEN BLOG. I HAPPENED TO HAVE SOME CHICKEN THAT I'D BOUGHT FOR LATER THIS WEEK BUT I WAS DESPERATE!!!!!

I will give the chicken a break after this weekend, I promise. As a side dish, I prepared one our favorite carrot dishes: Chicken Galzed with Marsala. I also had some lentils that I'd prepared earlier in the day. I would not pair lentils with this chicken recipe or the carrots, but for some odd reason I was craving lentils. They are typically considered a winter food. Perhaps, since we didn't really have a winter, my body was suffering from comfort foods. I will give the recipes here, but again, please note- the lentils do not pair well with the cilantro in the chicken dish. If you love lentils, you will love the lentil dish. Enjoy!