honey-dijon glazed grilled chicken

I saw this recipe when I was looking through my family cookbook to make meatloaf and thought it sounded so good. So I decide to try it with my own little spin on it.

Honey-Dijon Grilled Chicken
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2-4 Tbsp. butter
2-4 Tbsp. dijon mustard
about 1/4 cup honey
1/2 tsp. salt
2 ish tsp. curry powder
sprinkle chili powder, cinnamon and turmeric

Before you start on the chicken, you should start by placing a sweet potato or two in a pot of water and setting it to boil. This is a delicious accompaniment to the chicken, but takes much longer to cook than the chicken does. If you don't like sweet potatoes, you can skip this, but you will be missing out let me tell you.

Start by melting the butter.


Then add in the rest of the ingredients except for the chicken and allow to cook for a minute to combine the flavors and make a nice sauce. Now this is important. Stick your finger in the sauce and then lick it. To make sure the seasonings are correct. Repeat as many times as necessary to make sure that the sauce is perfect. Confession: I could take a bath in this sauce it is that delicious. Please, please love this bit of deliciousness.


Then pour the sauce over the chicken breasts. Allow this to marinate for a little while. If you want to make this ahead of time and allow it to marinate overnight or for several hours that would be okay as well.


Grill the chicken breasts basting with the glaze every time you turn the chicken over. Don't overcook the chicken as it can easily dry out if you cook it for too long. Then check on your sweet potato which should be done about now.


So delicious! Also if you are not starving as I was at this point you could make some green beans to go with this meal and it would be perfectly complete.

it's grilling season

I love to grill, so I get very happy when the weather gets to the point where it is fun to grill. I love that you can cook an entire meal on the grill which is exactly what I did the other day. My mom sent me home with some lovely porkchops, so I put those in a little marinade of olive oil, pineapple juice, basil, curry powder, turmeric, garlic salt, pepper, and chili powder. It would have been better if they could have sat in the marinade for a while or overnight, but they were good anyway.

I also just cut up a pineapple and an eggplant and grilled them as well. I had never cooked with eggplant before, and I'm interested to try cooking with it again, as it was little different by itself. I do love learning how to cook with new foods, though, so it should be fun.



A delicious, nutritious meal fresh off the grill. Hello summer!