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Honey Mustard Chicken

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My family has gotten into a rut. We have gotten very busy and have become a bit lazy when it comes to dinnertime. Cooking meals and preparing for them is difficult at the end of the day. I decided it was time to start looking ahead. I have been looking and finding things that my family will eat. My children are somewhat picky. I am likely the one to blame for this, but it is what it is and we have to work with it. Luckily for me, my children have decided that chicken is good. They have their usual ways that they like it the most, but are usually up to trying it in new ways. This started us on a path of new ways to cook chicken. This gives us a better chance at everyone liking it.

As a working mom, I love being able to come home and have dinner waiting for us to eat it. Really, even if just part of it is ready that’s a step up from our usual routine of come home and cook all of dinner. This is where the slow cooker comes in. It is by far one of the most under used tools in my kitchen, but one of the best for our busy lifestyle. Hopefully, we will start using it more again as we find new things to cook in it that everyone will eat.

This honey mustard chicken is probably one of the simplest and easiest recipes I have posted, but it was also a big hit at our house. As it is the base protein for the meal it pairs well with many things. So, we chose to pair it with Oven Fried Potatoes – a favorite at our house – and some steamed fresh vegetables.

Honey Mustard Chicken

  • 2lbs raw chicken breasts
  • 1 bottle favorite honey mustard dressing

Directions

  1. Place raw chicken in the bottom of your slow cooker.
  2. Pour dressing all over chicken.
  3. Cook on low for 6 – 8 hours.

Sour Cream Chocolate Cake

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Our family loves chocolate cake.  Agreeing with Mr. Biddle, Disney’s “Happiest Millionaire”, “Chocolate cake is the perfect food”. This Sour Cream Chocolate Cake truly is a family favorite. There is never very much left after a family party.  In fact, the kids will often come back for a second or third piece and the pan is empty.  Another great thing about this cake is you just stir it together in a sauce pan.

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Dutch Oven Blackberry Huckleberry Cobbler

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Every Summer for many years now, our family has had a camp out at Ponderosa State Park. We hike, ride bikes and swim in Payette Lake. This year on one of the hikes Margaret’s family found and picked wild Huckleberries. Our planned Blackberry Cobbler was reinvented. Here is our new recipe for

“Dutch Oven Blackberry Huckleberry Cobbler”.

 

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Fruit Kabobs with Fruit Dip

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Fruit Kabobs and Fruit Dip

As summer approaches I am aching to be eating summer food like BBQ anything, fresh fruit, and popsicles.  We tend to eat so much better during the summer than any other time of the year.  I think it is in part because I do not like to heat the house by using the oven, so our desserts tend to be fruit, pudding, or ice cream.  I think the other part is that we tend to be outside more and playing more and just eat less over all.

Fruit Kabobs

For the most part, fruit is all that we need to satisfy our sweet tooth after spending a day outside, however, every now and then it is fun to dress it up and have fruit dip.  It is a little boring to look at, but it is full of flavor and compliments all fruit.  We made the kabobs for a family party, we tried to incorporate favorites from most everyone in the family and still have it look pretty.  We used wooden skewers and bit sized bits of strawberries, pineapple, grapes and “big” blueberries.  I filled the skewers and put them on a platter.  The fruit dip was of course optional for people to eat, but we did not bring any of it home.  Which makes complete sense as it has yogurt and cream cheese in it, so it is a little cheese cake like, but dip like at the same time.

Fruit Dip

Cream Cheese & Yogurt Fruit Dip
 
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Ingredients
  • 1 8-oz package cream cheese
  • 2-3 tbls packed brown sugar
  • 2 5.3-oz vanilla yogurt containers
Instructions
  1. Allow the cream cheese to soften for 10-20 minutes before starting.
  2. Put all ingredients into a bowl, starting with only 2 tbls of brown sugar, using a hand mixer mix until well combined.
  3. Taste it, if you would like it sweeter put in another tbls of brown sugar.
  4. Let the dip cool for about an hour before serving.

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