Baked Chicken Sweet Chili Soy Sauce

I love chicken wings.  They are such a yummy appetizer or snack.  This is a super simple way to make chicken wings.  

El Husbee is considering getting a air fryer.  I worry that if we have a air fryer I would be making chicken wings all the time.  

One of the main reasons I don't make chicken wings all the time is that my local grocery store is always out of chicken wings.  It's so weird.  Is anyone else still have trouble getting certain food?

I love that Baby Girl loves these chicken wings too.  It makes it easy to make them as a family snack when everyone eats them.  

Baked Chicken Sweet Chili Soy Sauce

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 3 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 3 stock green onions

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400F
• Mix ingredients to make sauce.  Chop green onions and leave on side for garnish.
• Bake chicken wing side up for 25 mins.
• Flip wings and bake again for 25 mins.
• Take out of the oven.  Drizzle sauce over chicken and sprinkle green onions.

We rarely have leftovers when I make these chicken wings.  Which could be a good thing AND a bad thing.  

Keep cooking Friends!

XOXO

Baked Chicken Sweet Chili Soy Sauce

Sometimes you just crave some chicken wings.  This is my go to chicken wing recipe.  

This sauce is super yummy.  These smell great and taste even better.  Best part is the kids eat them!

Baked Chicken Sweet Chili Soy Sauce

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 3 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 3 stock green onions

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400F
• Mix ingredients to make sauce.  Chop green onions and leave on side for garnish.
• Bake chicken wing side up for 25 mins.
• Flip wings and bake again for 25 mins.
• Take out of the oven.  Drizzle sauce over chicken and sprinkle green onions.

Make sure that you really coat the chicken with the sauce.  Save the rest for dipping.  So good.  

Keep cooking Friends!

XOXO

Baked Chicken Sweet Chili Soy Sauce

I have been craving Asian food and chicken.  I am not sure why.  But I totally have been wanting to make this dish.  

This is super easy to make.  Even the kids liked it.  

Baked Chicken Sweet Chili Soy Sauce

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 3 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 3 stock green onions

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400F
• Mix ingredients to make sauce.  Chop green onions and leave on side for garnish.
• Bake chicken wing side up for 25 mins.
• Flip wings and bake again for 25 mins.
• Take out of the oven.  Drizzle sauce over chicken and sprinkle green onions.

This sauce is super yummy.  The whole house smells amazing with this sauce too.  This sauce can totally be used for like pot stickers too.  

Keep cooking Friends!

XOXO

Garlic Chicken and Vegetables

A friend of mine shared this recipe and I knew I had to try it.  This was super easy.  I am sure the vegetables are interchangeable.  Just use what you got.  I do suggest adjusting the red pepper flakes to your liking of level of spicy.  

Garlic Chicken and Vegetables

Ingredients

• 1 lb chicken, thigh boneless
• 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
• 2 cups bell peppers
• 2 cups zucchini
• 2 cups yellow squash
• 2 cup broccoli 
• 1 red onion, small
• 2 table spoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Directions:

1. Heat up pan with olive oil and stir in garlic. Add chicken and cook.  Add bell peppers, zucchini, squash broccoli, onion.  Cook until vegetables are tender.  Add soy sauce and red pepper flakes.
2. Serve over rice or quinoa.  

Keep cooking Friends!

XOXO

Cilantro Lime Chicken Marinade

Trying to survive and eat healthy with two kids.  El Husbee and I are trying to eat healthy and teach out kids to eat healthy.  For the most part the kids love food prep.  Which is good for us as long as we keep up with it.  I got this marinade recipe from a friend and have slightly changed it to adapt my family needs.  My family seems to love it. 

I have been using this marinade on chicken thigh.  So far so good. 

I do however leave the grilling to El Husbee. 


Cilantro Lime Chicken
Marinade:

• 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
• 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 5 cloves garlic minced
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 cup olive oil

Hope you enjoy the recipe as much as my family!


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Teriyaki Chicken

Lately the struggle has been real trying to decide what to make for dinner.  Thank goodness for easy recipes like this that my family enjoys. 

 This is my go to teriyaki sauce recipe that I use.  It is super easy to make and my family seems to like it.  You can use it for teriyaki chicken or shrimp. 

I am thankful for easy recipes like these on a weekday. 

Teriyaki Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 Tablespoon water
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 Tablespoons honey
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic

Directions: 

1. Wisk cornstarch and water together in a small bowl.  This is for thickening the sauce. 
2. Combine the cornstarch mixture with brown sugar, honey, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and garlic. 
3. Pour sauce into a small saucepan over low heat.  Allow to simmer while whisking.  Bring to a boil then remove from heat. 
4. Cook with your choice of protein. 

I like to sprinkle sesame seeds for garnish.  Service with rice and a vegetable and dinner is ready!

Keep cooking friends!

XOXO



Penne with Chicken, Broccoli, and Sundried Tomatoes

Most of the time when I don't know what to make for dinner I resort to making pasta.

El Hubby:  What's for dinner?
Me:  I don't know.  Pasta?
El Hubby:  I don't really feel like pasta
Me:  Well I don't feel like making dinner.
El Hubby:  Pasta sounds good.

Okay okay this exact conversation did not happen but some sort of it has happened.  I would say "poor husband" but the likelihood of me not feeding his is usually quite small.

Pasta has been on my brain ever since I say my cousin in Taiwan post her Facebook about eating pasta.  Ever since then I have had pasta on the brain.  I wanted something simple to make.  Of course I had not gone to the grocery store in days.  So I went through my stack of "recipes to try" and luckily found this.  And luckily I had all the ingredients.  Oh at least I made it work.
  

Penne with Chicken, Broccoli, and Sundried Tomatoes
Adapted from Smells Like Home

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 lb chicken, boneless, skinless, trimmed, sliced thin
1 onion, small
1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes
8 garlic cloves, minced
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 bottle Alfredo sauce
salt and pepper
1 lb broccoli, florets only
12 oz penne pasta

Directions:
1.  Heat 1 1/2 teaspoons of olive oil in a large skillet over high heat until just smoking.  Salt and pepper chicken.  Add the chicken and cook until lightly browned but not fully cooked, about 2-3 minutes.  Transfer to a bowl.
2.  Lower the heat to medium and add 1 1/2 teaspoon olive oil to the skillet.  When the olive oil is shimmering add the onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.  Stir in the sun dried tomatoes, garlic, and red pepper flakes.  Cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
3.  Stir in a bottle of Alfredo sauce.  
4.  Cook the pasta according to the package directions.  Add broccoli in 3 minutes before pasta is done.  Drain pasta and broccoli.  Reserve 1/2 cup of pasta water before draining. 
5.  Add the chicken to the sauce.  Cook chicken until done, about 2 minutes. 
6.  Add pasta and broccoli to sauce.  Toss to combine.  Stir in pasta water until you get desired consistency in sauce. 
7.  Serve hot!

This pasta came out amazing.  It is for sure going into the recipe binder.  Oh and let me tell you, the leftovers were even better.

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Get ready for spring and fruits and baking with those fruits!

XOXO

Asian Bowtie Pasta

 

I love pasta salads.  They are so versatile.  You can eat them hot, room temperature, or cold.  For my joint birthday BBQ with my friend Leslie I knew I had to make this pasta salad.  

Now if you ask my mom she would tell you that I am a pretty good cook, until it comes to Chinese food.  I say it's not my fault because Chinese food is a art and let me tell you I am not artist.  If you ask a Chinese person for a recipe this is usually their response, "oh just put a little of salt and little of soy sauce and what ever will make it taste good".  That my friend is not a recipe.  Needless to say I hardly ever ask my mom for recipes even though she is a pretty awesome cook.  What will my poor Chinese kids eat?  This salad!  

Okay unlike most Chinese cooks I actually have listed ingredients.  Maybe I am a "banana" like those kids in high school use to call me.  Whatever!  I like instructions.

Ingredients:

1 lb farfalle (bowtie) pasta

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon soy sauce

1/4 cup sesame oil

1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon honey

3 tablespoon rice wine vinegar

2 red, yellow, or orange bell peppers, cut julienne

1 cup of green onions diced

2-3 cups shredded rotisserie chicken

3 tablespoons roasted sesame seeds

Pepper to taste

3 cups washed baby spinach

2 tablespoons red pepper flakes (optional but highly recommended)

Directions:

1.  Boil and cook pasta according to directions.  Drain pasta and set aside.

2.  Use small pot to heat oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, honey, and rice wine vinegar over low heat until honey is dissolved.  Remove from heat and toss in the pasta.

3.  Add the bell peppers, chicken, green onions, pepper, sesame seeds, and red pepper flakes.  Toss well to coast all ingredients.

4.  Before serving, toss the pasta with the spinach.

Pasta can be served chilled or warm at room temperature.  

This bowtie pasta salad was a hit at the BBQ.  I made a pretty big tray of it and by clean up time it was all gone.  Even had people ask for the recipe.  I call that a hit!  The husband even asked me to make it a few days later after the party because he didn't get much of it at the BBQ.  

Enjoy!

XOXO

Honey Soy Pepper Wings

I have always been a dark meat kind of girl when it came to my chicken.  So naturally I love chicken wings.  How can one not like dark meat?  When cooked correctly the chicken meat is tender and juicy.  My mom use to make chicken wings all the time when I was a girl.  Mom always said chicken wings are the best because they are easy to cook and easy to serve.  Oh I love my mom.

This is a super easy recipe for chicken wings.  However it does require 12-24 hours to marinade. 

Ingredients:
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoon minced ginger
2 tablespoons ground black pepper
2 tablespoons siracha sauce (hot sauce or rooster sauce)
3 lbs wings
Sesame seeds and chopped green onions for garnish

Directions:
1.  Combine all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
2.  Dry wings and place in plastic bag.  Pour marinade over wings.  Cover and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours.
3.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
4.  Arrange wings on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
5.  Raise oven temperature to 450 degrees and bake for 12-18 minutes, until the skin is brown and crispy.
6.  Sprinkle with garnishes and serve!

These chicken wings are super yummy.  The chicken wings are sweet with a kick.  When they first came out of the oven the husband announced that he was not in the mood for chicken wings and ate a sandwich.  What a fool!  He sure missed out.  However, 2 days later he decided to eat the left over chicken and realized that he sure missed out.  Don't be a fool like my husband.  Eat the chicken when it come out the oven.  It is delicious!

Enjoy!

XOXO

First Slow Cooker Recipe!! Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

Okay so a few people I know always brag about how they use a slow cooker to cook dinner and it's so amazing and so easy. Being a Asian woman I have only used my slow cooker to keep food warm. So here I go to try this out. I found a buffalo chicken recipe to try. Now I was convinced this would NOT work. I mean it just sounds too weird to me to not slave over a stove for dinner.

Ingredients:
4 skinless boneless chicken breast
1 bottle buffalo wing sauce
1 package dry ranch salad dressing mix
2 tablespoons butter

Place the chicken breasts into a slow cooker. Pour in 3/4 of the wing sauce and the ranch dressing mix. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

Once the chicken has cooked add the butter and shred the meat with two forks. Pile the meat onto a roll and remaining buffalo wing sauce to serve. I also added diced tomatoes mixed with shredded lettuce and ranch.

So my husband take a bite. Makes a face. Then tells me "you need to take a bite". I take a bite and almost vomit in my mouth. This is gross. In the sense that it is too spicy (and I never say that) and just a lot of "blah". Then the husband says "if you had served this to me 11 years ago we never would have gotten married". Sad! Needless to say this recipe will never be used in my house again.

All you crazy slow cooker people ... SEND me your recipes!

XOXO