Quick and Flavorful Recipes for Busy People
These Lemon Pepper Air Fryer Chicken Thighs are quick, easy, and on your dinner table in less than 20 minutes. Juicy moist chicken made right in your Air Fryer.
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This Parmesan Breadcrumb Chicken is not only a quick and easy weeknight dinner option, it’s also a sure fire way to ensure you have no more dry chicken breast.
Hi friends, I’m back. I had to take a few days away from the blog. I find it difficult to post when my mind and heart are full of emotion. Within the last week, two events hit me hard. Those were the deaths of Terrence Crutcher and Keith Scott. Two families lost loved ones by the hands of the police. Children are without their fathers. Things just shouldn’t happen this way. Life is too precious to be lost this way. There has to be a way that this just doesn’t happen anymore.
As a mother, wife, a black woman, wife to a black man, and a public defender living in Charlotte, these recent events consumed my mind so much that I even lost my appetite at times. Surprising right? It hurt…I saw the people of my city hurting. Blogging and writing about food just seemed unnatural for me. So I took a week off of creating content. Please forgive me.
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This Baked Italian Chicken with Mushrooms recipe is quick, easy, and flavorful. Perfect for those days when you’re in need of a quick dinner fix with very little fuss. This post may contain affiliate links, please read the full disclosure here. 
Oh August 2016, how I have loved thee? Well, sort of. This has seriously been the busiest month in my life. Although we went on a fabulous vacation to Jamaica (check my Instagram for a few pics), I also was met with super busy days at work, my daughter’s birthday, soccer practice (yep, I’m a soccer mom too), and tons of other random projects I had to participate in. When is my next vacation????
Alrighty, enough of my complaints…let me get to the point of this post, this Italian Chicken with Mushrooms recipe. Busy months require recipes like this…when you can come home, put the ingredients in the oven for about 35-40 minutes, and BAM, dinner is ready. No more whining from the kid and no more pouting from the hubby about when dinner will be served.
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This Fruity Chicken Salad Recipe will have your family begging for seconds. Great for bag lunches. Great way to sneak some fruits and veggies in your picky eater’s diet.
I am the worst at packing my lunch. There, I said it. I have admit that most days I head over to a local restaurant with coworkers when I should be saving my coins and packing a lunch. Days that I do pack my lunch, it’s usually leftovers and although I will tear a leftover up, we don’t always have leftovers in our house. Well leftovers or not, I have vowed to become better at packing my lunch for work.
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Easy Baked Chicken Wings in Sweet & Sour Sauce
Easy Baked Chicken Wings in Sweet & Sour Sauce is an ideal recipe for any busy night. I get it, I get it…I literally say this about all my recipes. Yet it’s true, my goal in life is to provide easy and quick recipes you can whip up in a breeze. So here goes another.
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I have a slight obsession with Curry. Maybe it’s because I’m half Jamaican or it could be that one of the best basketball players in the NBA has the last name of Curry. Either way, curry has to be one of the most delicious things since chocolate. Ok, I’m exaggerating but curry is pretty darn good. Growing up, I only thought curry existed in the Jamaican culture. It wasn’t until I finally visited an Indian restaurant in my twenties that I realized that other cultures used curry too. Who knew? The odd thing is that Indian curry and Jamaican curry taste quite different but both are delightfully good. Recently, I had the pleasure of discovering Thai red curry paste.
Red thai curry was a new concept to me. Curry is yellow but this red thai curry paste can be found in your International section of Harris Teeter. I actually ended picking up some red thai curry for another recipe I found on another blog. That recipe was delicious and I may blog about it, but not today. I honestly had no clue on what I would do with the rest of the red curry I purchased. Then the light bulb clicked and this recipe came about.
This recipe…this curry…will have you fall in love with curry all over again. I like to eat it with white rice because I like to eat almost everything with white rice. Here are the deets:
Start cooking your rice.
Then, mise en place…Gather your ingredients (even a glass of wine if you like). Chop 1 onion, 1 green pepper, 1/2 red pepper, and 2 cloves of garlic and set aside. Chop 2 lbs of chicken breast into 1 inch pieces. Set aside.
Heat 2 Tbsp. of olive oil in a dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sauté onions and peppers until onions are translucent, about 4 minutes. Remove peppers and onions from pot and set aside.
Next, add chopped chicken to dutch oven and cook until chicken is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and stir chicken to ensure even cooking on all sides.
Remove chicken and set aside. Add chopped garlic, 2 Tbsp. red curry paste, and 1/2 tsp ground ginger to dutch oven and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add onions and peppers and chicken back to the dutch oven. Stir to combine.
Add 1.5 cups coconut milk, 1 Tbsp. fish sauce, and 1 Tbsp. brown sugar and stir to incorporate.
Reduce heat to medium-low. In a ramekin, add 1 tsp. of corn starch and 1 Tbsp. of water, stir and add to dutch oven to thicken sauce. Stir to incorporate and let simmer for about 5 minutes.
Serve with lime if you like. Serve over white rice and Enjoy 🙂
