Best of 2010 Jerk Chicken

My Mom tried this for a Sunday dinner and it was an instant classic!!

1 cup bottled jerk sauce, DIVIDED

2 cups sliced yellow onion

1/2 cup fresh lemon juice

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. fresh ground pepper

6 cloves of garlic, chopped

8 skinless chicken breasts (with bones)

8 skinless chicken thighs (with bones)

vegetable oil cooking spray

1 cup beer (we used grapefruit juice-get creative! :)

6 Tbsp. ketchup

2 Tbsp. tabasco

garnish-green onions

Combine 1/2 cup of the jerk sauce with the onion, lemon juice, salt, pepper and garlic in a large plastic bag and add chicken. Marinate chicken in fridge 8 hours to overnight, turning occasionally.

Remove chicken from bag, discarding marinade. Lightly spray both sides of the chicken with cooking spray. Combine remaining 1/2 cup jerk sauce, beer/juice, ketchup and tabasco. Grill chicken until no longer pink, turning several times, frequently basting with sauce.

This was so tasty!

We served it with Cilantro Lime Rice

1 Tbsp. olive oil

1 cup basmati rice

2-3 cloves garlic, minced

Saute 2 minutes on medium heat

Add:

1 1/2 cups chicken broth

1 tsp. salt

2 Tbsp. lime juice

Bring all to a boil.

Cover and cook on low 15 minutes. Serve with zest of lime and 1/2 cup cilantro chopped.

Family-friendly stir-fry recipes

I am looking for some new stir-fry recipes to use with my family. They are not super picky eaters but the kids wouldn't like anything spicy. Does anyone have a recipe to share?

Favorite Websites June-Cooking

This morning I saw a cherry lemon trifle on the Today show. I soooo want to make it! And I love that I can search online and find the recipe for it!  

Here are a bunch of recipe sites I love.

Martha Stewart-I love her recipes and I love the Everyday Food recipes even more!  The Everyday Food ones are more simple, and well, realistic for a simple cook like me!

Domestication in Progress-This is from our very own Skipper and the girls who contribute to this blog make some yummy yummy stuff! Everything I've tried has been fabulous!!

Allrecipes.com-I have to give a shout out to the one that I found first. I love this site! I went on a long search for yummy, CHEWY, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and found a bunch on this site that I then tried and came up with my own variation.  And now I want to go make oatmeal cookies!!!

The Pioneer Woman Cooks-I love her step-by-step approach and photos that make cooking a little less intimidating.  And she's funny!

The Foodees-Another where everything I've tried is good!

Internecipes-I have to admit, I'm always tempted but have only tried one recipe from this blog. But I still love looking at it and getting inspired.  

When seasons change, I get in such cooking ruts.  It's like I can't transition between winter casseroles and summer grilling without some personal trauma and these sites seem to help inspire me a bit! Enjoy and share if you've found some really good ones!!

...and in case you want to make the lemon cherry trifle too, here's the recipe! :)

Peanut butter Cookies

So maybe I am just out of it and you all have seen this recipe but I hadn't. I had a friend make Peanut butter cookies with some preschool students that I worked with this past semester and the recipe was so weird. It was a cup of sugar, a cup of peanut butter, and one egg. Well apparently the recipe worked so today I was craving peanut butter cookies but I wanted a fast recipe so I typed it in online and found the recipe she used. I made the cookies and they are so good and really fast to make! If you like peanut butter cookies you have to try these! So here is the recipe:

Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies (1-2-3 Cookies)
* 1 cup sugar (you can cut this down to 3/4 cup, if you prefer)
* 1 large egg
* 1 cup peanut butter (crunchy or smooth)

1. Combine sugar and egg in mixing bowl, stirring till smooth. Add peanut butter and mix in thoroughly.
2. Roll into walnut-sized balls.
3. Place the balls on ungreased cookie sheets at least 2" apart.
4. Flatten with the tines of a fork.
5. Turn 90 degrees and use fork again to create cross hatches.
6. Bake 10 minutes at 375F (or till done). Let cool in pan for 1 minute before removing to cooling rack.