Greek Chicken Kabobs

Something fresh and delicious is in order for Sunday night dinner.  Yesterday I went with an easy standby – Greek chicken kabobs and a simple Greek plate to go with it.  Yum o! 

To start, I did a quick marinade. 

I mixed:

• 1 pound of chicken
• 1 T of Olive oil
• 1 1/2 t of Oregano
• Salt and Pepper

I set that aside for about an hour and then I strung the chicken on to bamboo skewers.  I placed the skewers on the grill with a cut lemon.  

I could get all fancy here and talk about how grilling the lemon gives it a smoky flavor or how the citrus oils release while the chicken is cooking to give everything a lemony flavor, but I’ll leave all that to your imagination.  Suffice it to say, if you haven’t grill lemons before, give it a shot.

When you pull the kabobs off the grill, pick up and squeeze out the lemons on the kabobs.

Now just grill up a bit of pita bread, throw down a Greek salad and some hummus and you’ve got dinner.

–Martta

Harry Potter Food!

Well now that you already know how I did the Sorcerer’s Stone Jell-o, here is the rest of our menu for our big Harry Potter movie viewing party: 

We made our desserts first.  Pretzel rods dipped in chocolate and rolled in sprinkles of all kinds for the wands. Then owl feed, which turned out to be SUPER addictive!  It was a traditional white trash snack mix.  Man do I love those Wheat Thins Stix!  And finally on to our pièce de résistance: Dragon chicken with dragon egg grapes and forbidden forrest broccoli. 

The kids love their dragon chicken with ranch dressing so I simply mixed the ranch dressing with food coloring to come up with dragon “wings” and fire breathing.  They loved it!  Caroline especially liked the fact that she could mix all the colors and turn her ranch dressing brown.  

Then to cap off our Harry Potter movie fest, a traditional glass of butterbeer for everyone!  Yum!  

I’ve tried a lot of butterbeer recipes and this one is my favorite.  Although, I don’t add the rum extract and I dash in some butterscotch schnapps for the adults.  Yum!

–Martta

Ginger Chicken Wrap

What’s for dinner?

Yeah, I didn’t feel like cooking tonight either.  After fighting with myself to get into the workout clothes, I had to have a long conversation to motivate myself to actually make use of them by working out.  By the time that ordeal was over it was already almost 7 – practically midnight by my dinner standards.  So I needed something that was going to come together quickly.

Thankfully, I’ve got all the ingredients for a nice ginger chicken wrap on hand.

 

To put together this tangy treat, I pull some ginger soy chicken I grilled this weekend, sliced napa cabbage, chopped peanuts, sliced scallions and to top it off, Newman’s Own Sesame Ginger dressing (Lite!  And there was a coupon for it this week!)  

Grab a wrap, layer on the cabbage, chicken, scallions and peanuts then drizzle on the dressing. 

Roll it up, slice in half and enjoy.  It’s good with the chicken warm or cold.

And best of all, it’s ready in minutes.

–Martta