Mediterranean Chicken with couscous salad

Well we have the funk in our house - Dakota got it Monday and Eli and I got it last night. Strep throat. UGH.

And I did NOT feel like cooking. But I didn't marinade that chicken for nothing, ya heard?

So I went thru with it. I cooked it up and I ate the dickens out of it! And it was darn tooting delicious! SO take that Mr. Strep!

By the way this one was NOT gluten free - because my local shop didnt have gluten free couscous - s I splurged and bought the rainbow - cuz it was cute. YES, because it was cute!

So here is our photo:

And as always - the recipes we use are from The Fresh 20

I do NOT get paid to endorse them in any way - just sharing :)

Although I wish I did get paid - Hey - Fresh 20 - You hear that??

Wink Wink!

Chicken Tenders with Mashed potatoes and Peas

Hello!! Here is our dinner from last night.
It was supposed to be - Fish fingers with pureed peas..

So why does mine look nothing like that? Cuz it isnt.

I dont eat fish - so we did chicken tenders.
I didnt think my kids would eat green mashed potatoes so I didnt mash them together.

Same ingredients, just kept them seperated. And you know what? My kids had seconds! The potatoes were so good! The trick was fresh grated parm cheese!! MMMM...

And YES! It is gluten free!! We made our own bread crumbs out of gluten free multi grain bread - the kids love the food processor...

Here is our photo!

BBQ Braised Beef with Colcannon

Ok so I dont want to be a "Debby Downer" here... BUT

I am SO over cumin. I mean its like in EVERY recipe! Ok maybe that is an exageration but still. It has such a distinct taste and it had no business being in BBQ sauce. I KNEW the second I put it in there, I would regret it. UGH.

Rant over.

Dinner was good.
Not a huge fan of Colcannon... it was weird, and needed a lot of salt.

My kids on the other hand, hated them stringy meat and loved the colcannon. Too funny, huh?

Well all and all it was a good dinner. Not in my top ten. But I may possibly make it again MINUS the cumin. Cough. Gag.

I understand that there are only 20 ingredients allowed. I do! But its the same few spices every week! There are a plethora of spices out there!! And I know some chefs prefer certain spices! Thats awesome and stuff... But its time to broaden horizons. I am going to veer from the recipes if they continue this way.

Dont get me wrong, they are good, real good! But I do change em up slightly to my taste sometimes.
I still love the ease of having it all spelled out for me. I am NOT ungrateful. At all.

Just hoping for some new tastes.

ANYWAYSSSSSS

Here is my delicious photo!

Valentines Day Shirts

I have been playing around with making shirts and it has been so fun!!
I posted a few I made on my website: www.facebook.com/JoyfulBlessings
And the orders came rolling in...

So here is a pic of one of my orders completed. A nurse wrote to me about two sisters who have Hurlers Syndrome - she wanted to order Valentines Shirts.
Here is a photo of them almost finished...

Go to the website above to see finished ones...

Want to order?? Head over to Joyful Blessings on facebook!
Thanks!

Chicken!

This week, I ran out of grocery money so I have been having to improvise!
Day one was a Chicken Milanese - Which I had everything for!
Here is that meal! It was so good!!

And today was supposed to be Shrimp Scampi, but I didnt have the items for that so I move don to Wednesday - which I had everything for, but it was so similar to yesterdays, I changed it up a bit - it called for rice, but I opted to use noodles - and it is def not gluten free as I didnt have the right noodles...

It was a Chicken Broccoli Casserole and it was GOOOOOD!!!

Here is a photo of that...

Yummmm!

Minestrone Soup

Todays Menu included Minestrone soup - one of my faves!
Usually I make it with shell noodles, but since this is gluten free - we used rice. ( the recipe called for quinoa).

Everyone loved it, we added in addition to the recipe - zucchini and celery and some extra chicken broth...

Steak Fajitas

The menu today is Steak fajitas. With skirt steak - which looks nasty. I mean real nasty. People eat this stuff?  Look, I am a beef lover. I would eat steak every day if I could. But skirt steak looks gross. Its all fatty and stuff. Blech. But I am doing this menu plan at Fresh 20 to try out new things. Stuff I have never cooked or stuff I have cooked with a healthy twist.  I have cooked fajitas before, but not with skirt nasty steak.

All that being said. I cooked it wrong and sliced it wrong.  I followed directions. But I shouldnt have. I should have done it the way I *thought* it should have been done. But anyways. It was tough. Literally.

So we sat there eating and had a good laugh as the table fell silent and all we could hear was chewing. We all stopped looked at each other and laughed. Yep. Chewy. And while I am complaining - I dont like the corn tortillas either. So there.

So here are the photos of the evening.