Lemon Honey Chicken

With all my new followers and the highest number of views EVER on my blog today thanks to Stuck At Home Mom, I thought I needed to get into the kitchen!

My mom couldn’t decide what to do with our chicken tonight, so I told her I would make it. So we went to the store to get the chicken. We had everything else I needed.

In a medium bowl I mixed a pinch of crushed red pepper, 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1/8 teaspoon Italian seasoning, 1 tablespoon olive oil, the zest and juice of 1/2 a lemon, 1/4 cup honey (ours is special honey from West Virginia that came from hives that used to be my Grandpa’s), 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper.

I cut the chicken into bite sized pieces, put it in a big ziploc bag and poured the honey-lemon mixture in too. Next, I made sure every piece of chicken was covered evenly by sort of massaging it around through the bag. Then marinate it for half an hour.

Cook the chicken in a grill pan or large frying pan over medium high heat until the honey is caramelized on the outside of the chicken and the chicken is cooked all the way.

I served my chicken with my mom’s orzo and asparagus with garlic and parmesan. It was SOOO good and surprisingly not spicy. I thought it tasted almost as good as candy!

Pasta Shells

It was only my mom and me last Saturday night for dinner and she asked me if I wanted to try making up a new recipe with the entire grocery store as my pantry.

Um, hello!! SURE!

Pesto, chicken, alfredo sauce, and jumbo shell noodles were the only things I needed.

First, I boiled the chicken with salt, pepper and garlic, shredded it and mixed it with 1/2 the jar of pesto sauce. Because we had shredded mozzarella leftover in the fridge, I added some of that too.

Then, I cooked the noodles and stuffed them with the chicken mixture.

Spread a little of the alfredo sauce in the bottom of a glass pan and place the stuffed noodles in. Then lightly pour the rest of the afredo sauce over the noodles, and bake at 350 for 25 minutes.

They were one big giant pesto alfredo chicken and noodle ball…except it was not a ball, it was a shell.

I hope you make them sometime. In my opinion, they are very good!