Rosemary Lemon Chicken with Roasted Potatoes

 

“Any one can give a taste to food by adding condiments and flavorings, but to develop the flavors of the foods themselves is an art.” (Anonymous)

 

Hello, my lovely friends!

 

      Rosemary Lemon Chicken with crispy garlicky potatoes is the perfect meal to make someone feel special. You can make this meal throughout the year, but it just feels like a spring or summer meal to me. If the aroma of lemon and rosemary don’t send your taste buds into a frenzy then roasted potatoes soaking up all that goodness will wake them up. For this recipe I’ll be using my Eurocast double roaster.

 

Rosemary Lemon Chicken with roasted potatoes

Chicken Things (4)

Rosemary – 2 sprigs, finely chopped

Lemon – ½ cup freshly squeezed

Whole Grain Mustard- 2 TBSP.

Garlic – 5 cloves, finely chopped

Salt – couple of pinches

Pepper - couple of small pinches

Extra Virgin Olive Oil – ½ cup

 

Mushroom – 1 ½ cups, sliced

Potatoes – 3, peeled and sliced thick half moons

 

Preparing two hours before

In a bowl add the lemon, olive oil, mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper. Mix it all up and take out about ½ cup to mix it with the potatoes and mushrooms. Add the chicken to the bowl and mix it all up, cover it in plastic wrap and let it hangout in the fridge for an hour and up to twenty four hours.

 

Cooking Instructions

Preheat your oven to 375

 

In the roaster I added 1 TBSP. of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and place all the potatoes down first. I then put the chicken down and then place the mushrooms all around. Let that cook in the oven for between 50 to 60 minutes. Let it rest for about five minutes before serving.

 

Thoughts on this recipe

        This is a meal that I love to plate and look pretty because it’s a special meal. Many, many years ago my mom started buying pretty platters, but would only use them a couple times in the year when they were having big family dinners. I started watching Lidia on PBS and all the beautiful dishes she uses when plating her food. My parents would come home from work and dinner would be displayed on the platters. It’s all about making things a little special.

 

    This is a wonderful meal. I've made this meal so many times and it's always delicious, especially if you love lemons like me. 

 

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I wish you a good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are.

Until next time… Adios!

Work It

 

Taking a Day Off

Weekend Battle Plan

 

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. Today is a new day!" (Denise Austin)

 

Hello, my lovely friends!

 

When the weekend comes what happens to your plan? Does it go out the window as you forget that you’re trying to stay healthy? Even though you know you should stay on track, do you tell yourself you’ll just start fresh on Monday? I can be all over the place some weekends and that’s why I need a weekend battle plan. Many people treat weekends like a free two day pass to allow yourself to have something that we would never have during the week while we’re trying to eat healthy. I have a few ideas that I’m going to do to keep myself on track for the weekend.

 

1. Make lunch a salad. Even if you go out to eat at a restaurant or take-out a salad is a better choice. Also, make sure an oil-based dressing instead of a high calorie one.

 

2. Workout for at least thirty minutes. Sometimes on the weekends your workout might take a back seat because we’re so busy. I can fit in a thirty minute walk on the treadmill or taking Scoots for a walk. Even a quick walking workout would fit right in.

 

3. Ditch the caffeine for the weekend. There are times when I need a break from coffee and pop. I’m really trying to ditch the pop and have made the switch to clear pop, but still need a break. On the weekends I’ll have herbal teas in place of coffee and my favorite water with a flavored packet or just lemon.

 

4. Snack smarter. I usually have a snack a couple of times during the day and night. For my weekend snacks I’m sticking to a piece of fruit or some sliced veggies.

 

5. Have only one heavy meal a day. This is actually great to do all the time, but on the weekends we tend to have a full breakfast and dinner because we have more time to make something. I’m only doing a heavy meal once a day.

 

6. Eat lighter on Monday and Friday. Sometimes if you know you fall off the wagon on the weekend then make sure you eat healthy on the two days that sandwich the weekend.

 

What do you do to stay on track during the weekend?

 

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Talk soon…

Think of Now... Right Now

 

"Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity." (Audrey Hepburn)

 

Hello my lovely friends! 

 

     I love this poem because I believe that it speaks to the journey that we all take in our lives. There will come a time when you are standing at that fork in the road and trying to decide which road to take. This is the perfect time to think of how you want your 2024 to look for yourself. The newness of the start of a new year has wore off and some of those resolutions you made might already be broken. Take this weekend to put that reasonable plan together of what you want to get out of 2024.

 

The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

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I wish you a good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are.

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