A Tasty Dinner Meal In 30 Minutes.

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The winner of the apron is Comment #132:

Maria who said: I like baking with my family! Best times are in the kitchen!

Congrats Maria!! Please e-mail me at priscilla91@iowatelecom.net to claim your prize!

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Happy Thursday everyone! Whew, this week has been busy. I am feeling in much need of a long vacation. I am very excited because at the end of next month I will be going on vacation to California. I will be heading out to see my Grandma and to attend my closest friend's graduation. Ah, I seriously cannot wait. Eating at In-N-Out or Green Burito, seeing Palm trees, swimming, seeing mountains again, embracing the California sun. And much more. California I love you. I also adore you.

Onto a quick dinner meal. I'm sure a lot of you guys are familiar with marinating chicken breasts in Italian Dressing for a couple hours and then grilling it. But I also like to add some Pineapple Juice in with the Italian Dressing Marinade. Mmm, makes some lip smaking good chicken.

The rice and the green beans with eggs is also another favorite meal at our house during the summer with the chicken. The green beans mixed with eggs is my favorite way to eat green beans. We all grew up on Rice Pilaf and eat it all the time. It is a delicious side dish. This whole meal takes about 30 minutes (minus the marinading), it is simple but very appetizing.

Green Beans With Eggs
Ingredients:

5 eggs, beaten

1 can of french cut Green Beans, drained

2 tbsp. butter

DIRECTIONS:

Melt butter in a pan over medium heat. Dump Green Beans in and mix with the butter. Add eggs and stir until eggs are cooked. Sprinkle with salt to taste. Yield: 4 servings

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Rice Pilaf

Ingredients:

1 cup long grain rice, uncooked

2 cups chicken broth

1/2 cup vermicelli, lightly browned (Cracked into 3 inch pieces)

1/4 to 1/2 tsp. salt

4 tbsp. butter

DIRECTIONS:

Brown vermicelli at 400 degrees for 5 minutes or until lightly browned. In a pan over high heat, combine rice, chicken broth, vermicelli, and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce to simmer and cover. Cook for 20 minutes or until ready. 5 minutes before ready, drop tablespoonfuls of butter on rice and place top back on to finish cooking. Yield: 4 servings.

Pineapple And Italian Marinated Chicken
Ingredients:
4 skinless and boneless chicken breasts, thawed

1 cup Italian Dressing

1 1/2 cups Pineapple Juice

DIRECTIONS:

Combine Italian Dressing and Pineapple Juice. Place chicken in a pan, pour dressing all over chicken. Cover and marinate for 3 hours. Grill on BBQ on low heat until no longer pink in the middle. Continue to baste chicken in dressing while grilling. Yield: 4 servings.

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I love watching the youngest two out of our family together. Being the youngest out of all of us kids, they have a special something together. Even in a group of people Joe and Anna can usually be spotted together. As long as I can remember they have loved tackling each other to the ground. I sure hope they won't be doing that at 20 and 22 years old. Yes, that would be weird.

Have a wonderful Easter everyone, the days leading up to it is packed with activities! Looking forward to it, hope I can last until Easter and that day too!

Greek Salad With Crumbled Feta Cheese.

Good Wednesday everyone! Already half-way thru the week? I used to never believe people when they said: "life gets faster as you get older". I always though yeah, sure it does. But, now that I am getting older I have come to realize that life really does speed up. Weeks really fly by now. Forget about weeks....you blink and your weekends are gone. I feel telling the clock to sloooow down.

I love Greek food. I love Middle Eastern food. I also love Feta Cheese. My sister says it stinks and refuses to eat it. Yes, you do have to get past the smell to be able to eat it. This Greek Salad has Feta Cheese in it and boy, does it taste ever better. The parsley, olives, red onions, tomatoes, and the lemon/oil dressing makes this healthy salad something you won't be able to stop eating. The dressing is made mostly to your taste buds, some people like more oil or more lemon juice than called for. I like mine with that tart taste to it.

Greek Salad

Ingredients:

2 medium red onions, sliced

2 cucumbers, cut into chunks

1 1/2 tomatoes, cut into chunks

3 cups parsley, chopped

3 cans olives

2 (4 oz.) pkg. feta cheese, crumbled

DRESSING:

1 1/2 cups lemon juice

1/2 cup olive oil

1 1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. pepper

DIRECTIONS:

Combine red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley, olives, and feta cheese. Mix well. Mix dressing ingredients together. Pour over salad and mix together until salad is coated in dressing.


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Lisa. The oldest out of us kids. 10 years older than the youngest. The most gentle and calm out of our bunch. Out of us girls, Lisa is the one who would rather stay inside and knit, read, or even bake. My little sister Anna and I have been heavily influenced with 3 outdoor brothers. She's also the one who has lots of clothes and shoes....Anna and I due to being extremely picky about everything lack in that area. When it comes to knitting, she does a fantastic job. I am still trying to figure out how in the world she makes clothing for herself, I also lack in that area.

Have a super rest of your Wednesday and I'll see you with a another fabulous giveaway next!

Pecan Chicken Salad And Giveaway Winners.

Good Sunday everyone! Hope your weekend has been treating you well. I am not exactly looking forward to tomorow....Monday. Going back to school after the weekend is always hard. But, oh well - that's part of my life.

You guys really loved the clothing in my last giveaway! I don't blame you though, I loved them too. I am very excited about this Friday's giveaway, I know you guys will get giddy when you see it. But, lets give a big congrats to the winners of the clothing and ring giveaway picked by random.org:

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Clothing Winner: Meg: Love these t-shirts! I am definitely a jeans and t-shirt girl!

Ring Winner: Waneta: One of my favorite hobbies is cooking/baking . .. and my new hobby is photography.

Please contact me ladies at: priscilla91@iowatelecom.net.

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Here is a delicious way to make chicken salad with apples, pecans, celery, buttermilk, and other ingredients. The apples and celery add that crunchiness when you take a bite and the buttermilk puts a new spin to chicken salad. This would make one delicious and easy meal.

Pecan Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups canned chicken (the chicken you would buy for chicken salad)
1/3 cup chopped celery
1/3 cup chopped tart apple
1/3 cup chopped pecans, toasted
1/2 cup mayonnaise
4 teaspoons buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
7 croissants, split

DIRECTIONS:
In a large bowl, combine the chicken, cherries, celery, apple and pecans. In another bowl, combine the mayonnaise, buttermilk, salt and pepper; add to chicken mixture and mix well. Spoon 1/2 cup chicken salad onto each croissant. Yield: 7 servings.

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See this picture? That's me on the left and my friend Joss on the right. Uh, the year was 1997, so we were both 6. Fast forward a couple years and now we are both Seniors in high school. These are Joss's Senior pictures....I still need to get mine done. It's hard to believe that we are both in our last year of high school....but exciting too because we are graduating. We are both excited to see what God holds for our future as we take a new step in life.

Have a great rest of a weekend and I'll see you next with a great dinner meal!