Good morning my dear friend! It's a super early Friday morning here and I couldn't sleep so now, me and my coffee are chatting you up! I hope you are peacefully slumbering all snug like a bug in your comfy bed while I sip my coffee, prepare a lunch bag, pay the bills and write to you about delicious recipes! Many of us are working on saving calories or fats or carbs as we venture into the New Year. Some are intermittently fasting. Some are trying out the newer weight loss injections (if you try it and want to tell me how it goes, I would love to know!) Therefore, I thought I would share some healthy and yet tasty recipes here today. This Chipotle Chicken Salad (not the restaurant style) is honestly one of the best salads you'll ever put in your mouth. I hope you will try it! If you want to dazzle the taste of your chicken, this Sriracha Lime Chicken Marinade is just right! Won't add too many calories or other stuff folks usually avoid when watching their waistline. This Ginger Lime Chicken is also delicious and easy and low in most everything. Amazingly, it has a terrific flavor! Of course, if you cruise on over to the website or the YouTube channel, you'll find lots of tasty recipes that cover everything from cooking from a can or the freezer to creating a dazzling dinner out of fresh ingredients that you prepare yourself! Boom, We got YOU baby! HOT COOKING TIP OF THE WEEK This week I purchased some pre-seasoned chicken breasts from the grocery. They were a Lemon Pepper flavor (and honestly, I think Food Lion went a little heavy on the yellow food color because, wow, yellow) but I digress. The chicken breasts were HUGE! Thick and humongous. One person COULD eat one of those at a sitting, but probably not in my family and then, unless they took it home with them, it would just go in the trash. Some of my family doesn't really like to do leftovers and so, to each his own. Others take carry out boxes home so often that I just keep some in stock now. I buy the three compartment plastic food prep containers on Amazon, they are inexpensive and work well enough. So much cheaper than the gladware alternatives at the grocery store. But that isn't the tip, although it could be. The tip is about those humongous breasts. Cut them in half and you will be so much happier with ~ the amount that gets thrown away ~ the cooking difficulty ~ your ability to cook for everyone at your table without breaking the bank. When I say cut them in half, I mean, you are going to butterfly them and then slice them the rest of the way through so that they open like a book. On your cutting board, lay the filet so that the widest side is facing your dominant hand. Place your non dominant hand on top and give a light press. Use your sharpest knife in your dominant hand and mid way through the thickness of the breast slice it about half way through. Remove your non dominant hand from the front, peel the two halves apart and finish cutting it through. Now, you have TWO pieces of chicken breast that are enough for a person to eat without having to throw a bunch out! Isn't that great? Yeah, i think so too. And just for future planning, when buying meat, plan on 1/3 - 1/2 lb of meat per person. Hope that helps! __________________ THREE LITTLE THINGS Those three little things that I'm thankful for this week. Finding my own gratitude and sharing it with you here.
__________________ This week I had the opportunity to ride along in a tractor trailer on a couple of day trips and wow, that's a whole new experience. If you know anyone who drives a truck, please go up to them and say, "Thank you for everything you do for me, even if I don't know what it is". Those folks are out there hauling everything you can even imagine up the roads to get it where you can use it. Earlier this week we hauled stuff from a gag gift store/ halloween costume maker distribution center to an outlying center. Today we are going to haul an empty milk tank from the dairy back to the distributor. I guess that next Halloween someone will be wearing a costume that was hauled up that road and in the next few days, someone will be drinking milk that arrived in that tank (once it's been washed) and I will have had some small part in that! Thank you for all you do for me! It's quite a lot! Just showing up and reading this newsletter, passing it along to friends and encouraging them to sign up for it too is a great help! It also helps me when you leave comments over on the website. Somehow this makes Google think we are closer friends. (They don't have a clue about our friendship, do they?) Anyway, my friend, you are loved and cherished by me. I appreciate you. I am right here if you want to chat about anything from the dinner you made last night to what's happening in your family. All you have to do is click "reply" to this newsletter and it will come straight to my inbox, I'll answer right away. Love you! See you in your inbox next week, God willing and the creeks don't rise! Wendi Jo Unsubscribe | Update your profile | PO Box 82 , Danbury, NC 27016  |
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