Tasty Thursday Dinner

So when we arrived home on Monday, I made a menu for the week, mainly so I would have an idea of what to buy for the week at the grocery store. I must say that already having an idea of what we are going to eat for dinner has made life much easier, this will be extremely handy when I start back to work in August. Anyway tonight's menu included a new recipe that I was given at a recipe shower. So here's a shout out to Ms. Kaye for her awesome chicken dish. Because we enjoyed this dish so much I thought, why not share with others (I mean who wouldn't enjoy a new way to cook chicken right?) So here is the recipe for Pecan Crusted Chicken

1/4 cup soy sauce
2 Tablespoons rice wine vinegar
3 cloves garlic, pressed
1 green onion, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon honey
1 tsp minced fresh gingeroot
4 (4 oz) boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1/2 cups bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped unsalted pecans
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp black pepper

In a large zipper topped plastic bag, combine first 6 ingredients (soy throught gingeroot); add chicken, seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for up to 4 hours. Preheat oven to 350. In another large zipper topped plastic bag, combine bread crumbs, pecans, paprika, and pepper. Drain chicken and discard marinade; add chicken to crumb mixture, one piece at a time, sealing the bag and shaking to coat. Place chicken in a baking dish coated with cooking spray; bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and juices run clear.

This dish didn't take a lot of prep work and was so tender and just made your mouth sing because of all the flavor. Now I paired this with some steamed broccoli (because we have so much leftover from the wedding reception) oranged glazed carrots, brown rice, and a piece of homemade buttermilk bread. It was a beautiful plateful of food (for which I apologize for not taking a picture) and oh so tasty. With that being said, I must finish cleaning the dishes before relaxing for the evening. Enjoy!

Married Life At Home

Quick Recap on our Life:
June 18 - Married
June 19 - June 26 - Honeymoon in St. Lucia
June 27 - Arrived home in the wee hours of the morning, did all the name changing, bank, legal documents stuff. Cooked a birthday dinner for my sweet husband, as well as a cookie cake (with candles which melted into the cookie cake - LOL)
Which brings us to today June 28 - my first full day of married life at home - and I must say it has been wonderful. Breakfast with Aaron (so wonderful) and sent him off to work, lunch packed in his lunchbox, and then I began to do the mountains of laundry that two people accumulate while gone on a trip. I started laundry at 9:00 and finally put the last load of clothes away at 7:15. It has been a fun day of cleaning, putting away, and I even got a run in this morning. Dinner was prepared: homemade buttermilk bread, salad, and a broccoli, potato, carrot soup. Okay let me explain - I have a whole lot of broccoli from the reception in my freezer and we are trying to eat it, in a variety of ways. Needless to say it was a quite tasty dinner and we even had some leftovers. The rest of the evening was spent with my sweet husband helping me become "cool" in the social world. Yes I now have a twitter account! Hopefully I'll remember how to use it. Haha. Well my new Karen Kingsbury book (on my Kindle of course) is calling my name, so I think I will call it a night. I hope you truly enjoy the tales that will come from the Turner Home, they are all orginals for sure. :)