Ok...so we're on a week of new recipes
(we're trying another new one tonight!), so if your overloaded I'm sorry, but I
PROMISE I'll only post the ones that were good; and last night's recipe was
GOOD! It was a find on pinterest called baked sweet and sour chicken. The pin says it is addicting, and boy! They weren't kidding! Here is the
blog that it was linked to though. I changed a few things (which I'll note) and it still tasted great! Here's the recipe:
Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken:
The chicken coating:
3-4 boneless chicken breasts
salt + pepper
1 cup cornstarch
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup canola oil (*I didn't have oil, so I just used cooking spray - probably a little healthier too?)
The sweet and sour sauce:
3/4 cup sugar
4 tbs ketchup
1/2 cup vinegar
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tsp garlic salt
Start by preheating your oven to 325 degrees. Rinse your chicken breasts in water and then cut into cubes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dip chicken into the cornstarch to coat then dip into the eggs. Heat your 1/4 cup oil (
*or spray) in a large skillet and cook your chicken until browned but not cooked through. Place the chicken in a 9x13 greased baking dish. Mix all of your sweet and sour sauce ingredients in a bowl with a whisk and then pour evenly over the chicken
(I didn't read properly and heated mine in a sauce pan and then poured it and it worked fine too). Bake for one hour and during the baking process you will need to turn the chicken every 15 minutes. Then Enjoy!
The website also gave a recipe for fried rice:
Fried Rice
3 cups cooked white rice (day old or leftover rice works best!) (*I used brown rice!)
3 tbs sesame oil (*I didn't have this, so I just sauteed them in butter - probably would have tasted better with the sesame oil, but our finished product still turned out good!)
1 cup frozen peas and carrots (thawed)
1 small onion, chopped
2 tsp minced garlic
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 cup soy sauce
On medium high heat, heat the oil in a large skillet or wok. Add the peas/carrots mix, onion and garlic. Stir fry until tender. Lower the heat to medium low and push the mixture off to one side, then pour your eggs on the other side of skillet and stir fry until scrambled. Now add the rice and soy sauce and blend all together well. Stir fry until thoroughly heated!
Let me know what you think!
How has she been doing? SO GOOD! She has decided she likes to put herself to sleep! We discovered this last weekend. Tyler was putting her to bed and he said holding her just seemed to make her more upset so he put her in her crib and she shut right up and fell asleep! So then the next night when I put her to bed she did the same thing! She didn't want to be held so put her in her crib and she shut right up and went to sleep. Bed time has been SO much easier this week. I used to dread it, but now within 5 minutes she's out which brings me to another victory...SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT! Bless her little soul. Last night I didn't even have to wake up to put the binkie back in her mouth! It was a beautiful night. Let's hope it keeps up!
