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Grilled Chicken Bacon Sliders

I am SO happy to be on spring break!  I’ve been on a non-stop cooking/blogging marathon!  It’s great to have the time to catch up on projects, watch cooking shows, peruse recipes on blogs, and play on Pinterest! I love little sliders, though I’ve hardly ever made them at home.  I got this recipe from …

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

So what is the deal???  I am on spring break from school here in East Tennessee at the end of March and would you just look at this weather?  The temperature is in the 30′s and we’re having snow!  Oh well, just give it a few days and it will be in the 60′s again.  …

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Mexican Chicken Casserole

Quite often, my family spends Thanksgiving week at my sister’s house in Missouri.  Jan is a great cook and has shared a number of recipes with me through the years.  We usually arrive on Tuesday evening and stay until Friday or Saturday.  Since we spend all day cooking together on Wednesday , Jan usually has …

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Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Fairly often, my youngest daughter lets me know that we need to have a “girl’s day” together.  This typically means that we will go visit her favorite craft stores, shop for clothes (for her), and eat lunch out at her favorite Italian restaurant.  She’s twelve years old now and I love that she enjoys hanging …

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Chicken Picata

  A few weeks ago, I went with some of my friends to dinner at a local restaurant. I had never eaten chicken picata before, but when one of my friends ordered it, I decided to give it a try too. Well, I was glad I did! I really liked it! It had a just …

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Cajun Chicken Pasta

  I love chicken and pasta so whenever I see a new recipe, I am inclined to give it a try.  I found this recipe on Pioneer Woman’s site.  I tweaked the ingredients a little to suit our taste, but it was delicious!  You can adjust the amount of the Cajun based on your level …

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Maple Dijon Chicken

Three weeks into the semester and already those days of pre-planned weekly menus and shopping lists are a just a distant memory. Grad school is keeping us both BUSY! It’s a very happy busy though. I absolutely love what I’m doing! (What am I doing?) A lot. 17 hours of classes, covering fascinating topics like …

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Curried Chicken Salad

  At the beginning of the month we decided to pay a visit to a local pick-it-yourself farm, in search of blackberries and peaches, but when we got there we found out that due to unseasonably warm weather, we were too late. All the crops had come in about a month earlier than expected and …

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Spicy Oven Fried Chicken

  This is the closest thing to fried chicken that has come out of my oven yet. The pictures aren’t great, mostly because there is no sunlight on hand at 9:00 pm (what can I say, sometimes we keep odd hours), but the chicken was really good with a subtle spiciness about it. However you …

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Chicken Parmesan

  Almost every time we go to an Italian restaurant, Steve orders Chicken Parmesan.  I was recently watching a Food Network episode of “Pioneer Woman”.  She had made this recipe for her husband’s birthday dinner.  I knew it sounded like a recipe that would be a hit for dinner here. This afternoon while my husband, …