Teriyaki Chicken

My kids love Asian food.  But to be honest, my Asian cooking skills are limited.  I am about measurements and if you have watched Asian cooking you know there is not a lot of measuring involved. 

This is my go to teriyaki sauce recipe.  It's super easy to make and stores well the fridge.  

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. Whisk 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 have started dusting my chicken with cornstarch before cooking.  If you have not tried it you need to.  A little cornstarch give the chicken a little crunch that is a hit with the kids.  

Keep cooking friends!

XOXO

Cornbread

Nothing goes better with chili than cornbread.  I love that my family loves cornbread and I love how easy this recipe is to put together. 

The only ingredient in this recipe that you might not have is buttermilk.  I have not tried any substitutions myself.  BUT I have heard you can make a DIY version using lemon juice or white vinegar and whole milk.  BUT I have never tried this myself.  Just saying. 

Cornbread

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cornmeal
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted & cooled
• 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 egg, large & at room temperature
• 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease a 9 inch baking dish.
2. In a bowl, whisk the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.  
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the melted butter, brown sugar, honey together until smooth.  Next whisk in the egg until combined.  Last whisk in the buttermilk.  
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk until combined.  DO NOT OVER MIX.  
5. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.  Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown on top/  Use a tooth pick to test that the center is cooked through.  Allow to cool before slicing.  If you slice it soon the cornbread will crumble and not hold its shape. 

This cornbread will make your home smell amazing when you bake it.  This cornbread can be served with butter, honey, jam or eaten as is.  My favorite is honey butter.  

Stay healthy friends and keep cooking!

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

MGD Honey Beer Bread

Okay so during football season my husband got a little crazy with the beer for tailgating. You see beer is easy to carry when it's in a box. So every time he would buy a new case to tailgate. However, there seems to always be a few left behind that we would bring back after the game. So now that football season is over I have a whole bunch of random beer. What is a girl to do? MAKE BEER BREAD! Muahahaha! Okay I might be a little crazy but honey beer bread is super yummy.

My parents have never had honey beer bread so since my mom and I decided to play hooky from work I make some honey beer bread and called her up to pick it up.

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup wheat flour
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup honey
1 can of MGD (12oz can)
3 tablespoons melted butter

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a bread pan with generously with cooking spray.

2. In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

3. Slowly pour the beer alternating with honey. Mix enough just so everything is incorporated. The less you mix the better. Don't worry about lumps.

4. Bake for 60 minutes. The top should be a nice brown color and tooth pick insert should come out nice and dry.

This bread is such a good snack. I know that sounds weird but once you have tried it you will understand what I mean. I am normally not a MGD kind of girl but this bread is good. My mom tried it and couldn't believe that it was made from beer. My dad called me that night and wanted to do what was really in the bread. BEER! He didn't believe me. But what else is new? That man never believe my cooking ability. Oh well. Snack on!

Enjoy!

XOXO

Honey Beer Bread

What's yummier on a cold night watching a Harry Potter marathon than some honey beer bread?


I have had this recipe for a while and have never had a chance to make it. It was super easy and I will for sure be making this again.

3 cups of all purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp honey
1 can or bottle beer (12 oz)
3 tbsp butter (melted)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a bread pan with the melted butter. Save the rest for later.

In a bowl mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

A great trick for the honey is to microwave it. I microwaved it for about 15 seconds to make it easier to work with.

Add the honey and beer to the dry mixture. Mix enough just so everything is incorporated. Don't worry about lumps.

Bake for 60 minutes. The top should be a nice brown color and a tooth pick insert should come out nice and dry.

This bread was so yummy that I am for sure going to make it again. It kinda has the same consistency as a biscuit.


The husband loved it and requested it be made with chili next time. Who knew bread could be this easy? It also made the house smell incredibly good.

Thank you Leslie Berroya for forwarding this recipe to me!

XOXO