HAPPY TUESDAY!!! I hope that everyone had a love Labor Day weekend!! I know I spent part of it with mon Tuggers (we went to a corgi brunch on Sunday, which was DELIGHTFUL) and spent a good portion of it with Franklin just enjoying a slow weekend of relaxing (plus the new Tony Hawk for…
Category: Chicken
On Shredded Mexican Chicken
Update 1/11/2022: If you’re short on time, you can also make this Mexican shredded chicken in the Instant Pot (following this recipe I did in 2021). Just throw all the sauce ingredients into the instant pot, mix/combine, and then add in your chicken. Done!!!! If you know me, or want to know anything about me,…
On Cooking with Coworkers: Chicken & Veggie Coconut Curry
With everyone sheltering in place, one of the directors in our department at my day job suggested we do a weekly cooking class together, and it has become a highlight of my week! The first week, we made a really quick and easy tomato pasta dish—which you can find the recipe for on my Instagram,…
On Lemon Rice & Chicken Soup (Avgolemono Soup)
There is a place in Evanston that my in-laws particularly enjoy going to called Cross-Rhodes, which is a great little hole in the wall Greek joint that has some AMAZING gyro’s, but my mother-in-law will always, and I do mean always, order a bowl of their Lemon Chicken Soup. And I gotta say, their soup…
On Copycat Panera Pick Two: Frontega Chicken // Chicken & Wild Rice Soup
Hi all, Hoping you’re doing well and staying safe out there. In all the chaos of quarantine and COVID, have I mentioned that my mother-in-law got a new toy for the house? AN INSTANT POT! Now, in my opinion, I found this device to be incredibly intimidating, and my first experience was….not great. I tried…
On Prosciutto Wrapped Stuffed Chicken
Hi all, I hope you’re all doing well and staying safe! These are definitely weird, hard, and crazy times that constantly remind me how important it is to find moments of comfort, moments of family no matter how close or far they are. At the beginning of this month, I braced the quarantine and drove…
On Chicken Satay & Cucumber Salads
I finally had a weekend to myself and I thought, why don’t I go ahead and make something different? Lo and behold, I had been hankering for some chicken satay, and happened to have a FANTASTIC recipe for chicken satay by one of my go to’s: Recipe Tin Eats! I have been eyeing her recipe…
On Sheet Pan Fajitas
When a pre-ramble isn’t really necessary! 🙂 Sheet Pan Fajita Ingredients Taco Seasoning 1 tbsp chili powder 1 tbsp ground cumin 1 tbsp garlic powder 1 tbsp onion powder 1/2 tbsp (or 1 tsp+, to taste) crushed red pepper Fajitas 2lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into thin slices 2 tbsp olive oil 1 lime,…
On Gingerbread Sheet Cake & Christmas
It’s that time of year, when we pull out our most festive threads, put up & decorate the tree (which I think Frankie did a TERRIFIC job of doing this year), and deck our home in Christmas lights and ornaments in all the vases I almost never put any flowers into. Let’s just say, I am…
On Cornish Game Hens: A Thanksgiving Upgrade
Or downgrade if you think about the sizes we’re talking about…MINI CHICKENS!! And oh so good! Yup, just spoiled the ending of this post – DE-LICIOUS! It even came complete with stuffing!!! I was originally just going to make the stuffing and leave it to the next day, but then I realized I was halfway…
On Chicken & Chorizo Empanadas
Since moving and getting my adult side of life in sync again, I have been on a cooking BINGE! Also – meal planning, yeah, I’m a newfound convert! I know I tried meal planning before, but I did it wrong for my life, and by that I mean, I was meal planning so that I…
On Benihana Chicken Fried Rice and Ginger Sauce at Home
How many of us have gone to Benihana’s (or some other hibachi restaurant)? *RAISES HANDS* And how many of us have fallen in love with that delicious, yellow yum yum sauce?! *RAISES BOTH HANDS* Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Back when I was still living in the States, Benihana’s was where I always wanted to go…
The Real Cooking Maggie 