YUM-O

My amazing, wonderful, incredible AWESOME Mom sent me a cute package the other day, and in it was a Woman's Day magazine with 3 awesome chicken recipes in it. Over the last few weeks I managed to make all three recipes and they ROCK! They're all really easy and are soooooo good!

Here's the link for all 3 recipes:

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Food/Recipes/Quick-Cooking-Chicken-Recipes.html

Each recipe said to marinate for at least 15 minutes, but I found if I marinated them up to 2 hours, like it suggests, it's just that much better.

I just barely made the Lemon Rosemary chicken and it was sooo good, but the sauce I made TOOK THE CAKE! I took the rest of the marinade and boiled it so it thickened up and it would kill whatever bacteria that was still in there. I then melted 2 TB of butter into the pan, put in 2 TB of flour and cooked it til it was maybe medium brown, then I just alternated chicken stock and lemon juice til it had the consistency and taste that I wanted - I like my lemon sauces very lemon-y. In all I used almost a whole can of chicken stock and maybe like 5 TB of lemon juice? Rachael Ray's got NUTHIN' on me!!!

With the Tandoori chicken I DEFINITELY recommend making extra of the marinade to put on the chicken after it's done cooking, it was sooo cook, but there wasn't enough after it soaked into the chicken.

All 3 called for either minced garlic, minced ginger, or both. I just minced garlic up myself, and then used powdered ginger (I couldn't find minced ginger when I went to look for it) BUT I will definitely be using the jarred stuff in the future, I'm sure it'd make a HUGE difference!


<--- That's the Mojo Chicken. Easily the easiest chicken dish I've ever made!

Now go and make all three ASAP! Happy cooking!