Wings ROCK!!

Wow what a crazy few weeks.  While in Spokane last week, my mother and I were rear ended.  Thankfully it seems like we will both be fine after a few month with a chiropractor.  Since the accident, my family has lived on fast food and hot dogs because standing over the stove was not an option. However, I found this recipe on tumblr and decided that it would be worth it to bear the pain....MAN O MAN was I right!!

Brown Sugar Wings with Red Pepper Sauce
and
Grilled Zucchini "Fries" with
Greek Yogurt Ranch

Caribbean Spiced Pork with Black Beans and Rice

Bubble Up Pizza

This right here is the smashing hit of the year for my family. I've been on a pinterest kick the last few months and this by far is one of my favorite finds.  I can't find the pin at the moment, but its quick and easy to make...not to mention you can't screw it up. Along with being super easy (cut, mix, pour, bake) its also really inexpensive, which is always a bonus!

Certain foods remind me of home...

and my mom's Chicken Kiev would be one of my favorites.  I can remember the smells coming from the kitchen when it was baking and how it would make my mouth water.  Its almost indescribable how the combination of cheese, butter, and cheez-itz would combine in the heat of the oven and make my whole family excited to sit at the dinner table.

Tonight, while figuring out what to make with the remaining chicken breasts from last night, I noticed a box of cheez-its sitting in the pantry and inspiration struck....MOM'S CHICKEN KIEV!!  As an added bonus, mini was helping me tonight in the kitchen so I was getting to pass down a family recipe *HAPPY DANCE*, but fate said, "Nope you don't get to have all the required ingredients for that.  That would have been way too easy."

OK, no problem, I can handle this.  I have chicken, cheez-itz, mozzarella and sun dried tomatoes...BINGO!

Cracker crusted chicken stuffed with sun dried tomatoes and mozzarella
with cauli-rice

A simple meal with not a lot of prep work. The hardest part was crushing the crackers and I had an amazing helper for that.  Next time this will be a planned meal that I'm pretty sure will have both my boys waiting with mouths watering.

Long days...

equal quick dinners with what ever I can find in the fridge. Tonight's meal was brought to us by the left over marinara and mozzarella from Sunday's bubble-up pizza and I gotta say that I'm pretty happy with the end results. 

Mozzarella Chicken in Marinara

with Pasta





First entry

Grilled chicken teriyaki and garden vegetable succotash

Its always a little weird starting a blog when you swear no one is ever going to see it.  I mean who are you talking to?  Yourself....the future readers after you have amassed a few dozen posts?  For me....I truly don't know who I'm posting this for but I like love to cook and taking photographs of said amazing meals seems like a natural step to take considering photography is my first true love.



Who knows maybe someone will stumble upon my eats and think, "Hey this chick is AMMMAZING! We should totally give her a show of her own!!".  Or they could see what beautiful photos accompany each post and decide that I am the ONLY ONE worthy of shooting their next big spread in some gourmet magazine. 

Lofty dreams indeed!



Barbecued london broil and a grilled chopped
vegetable salad

In reality, I want a place to showcase my achievements and share my disastrous attempts at baking (baking and I don't quite see eye to eye but that will change....right!??!).

So here's to a hopeful start <3

-Cat