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Chicken with Tomatoes and Lime (delicious, quick, and healthy recipe)

on Nov 22, 2009 in Delicious Recipes Only

Hi Everyone: 

Here is another recipe I love, thanks going to my writing cohort, Louise Ross.  It’s for Chicken with Tomatoes and Lime, and it’s another GOLD STAR rated recipe (which means it’s healthy, easy, tastes great AND my daughter eats it)! Now, if you live in the US, and you celebrate Turkey Day, you’re perhaps thinkin’ ”Uh, how’s that fit into the festivities?” (The rest of you are thinking, “Thank God! I’m tired of stuffing recipes already!” )  Here’s how it fits: when you get to *next* Thursday (that would be December 3rd), and you’ve had it with turkey, turkey omelets, turkey soup, turkey salad, turkey shakes, turkey cake, and, my favorite, turkey turkey, you’ll thank me for this easy, quick, healthy recipe with very, very few ingredients!

So, back to Louise!  She has a wonderful blog called Market to Mouth (also on my blogroll).  The premise of her blog is that you can budget shop at Whole Foods, and you can eat yummy food at the same time.  

This recipe is easy to right size, so I am writing it based on 2 adults and 1 kidlet. 

Ingredients first….

–   3 half breasts of chicken (each one being the size of my hand, which….er…you cannot see)
–   1 lime (no need to add an extra lime until you get to about 5 or 6 half breasts)
–   3 tomatoes (you’ll want 1 per breast; I used Campari Tomatoes, so I used 2 per breast, or 6)
–   White wine (I used half a cup. I can’t drink white wine, so I keep one of those mini-crates with single servings of white wine in the fridge.  That way, I don’t waste it when I want to cook with it. Louise also says you can also use Lemonade  – which I will try next time, which is probably more likely to be in a single mom’s or mom’s fridge).
–   Cooking Oil (I used olive oil)
–   Salt and pepper to taste
–   Cheese (That’s my add. I like to sprinkle cheese on everything.)
–   1 potato or rice or pasta (We did a potato friend with some olive oil though this recipe will do well with any of these sides)

What To Do…..

1) Heat some oil in a pan and toss in chicken pieces, brown slightly.
2) Slice a lime, and a couple of tomatoes, toss over chicken.
3) Add the pan lid and turn heat to low.
4) At around the 15 minute mark, remove the lime pieces. If you have any lemonade, or a fruity / oaky white wine (if not use water), moisten the bottom of the pan with your choice of liquid. Cook another 15 mins or so.
The lime infuses the chicken with a sourness that sweet tomatoes, lemonade or fruity white wine compliment by offsetting the sourness.
5) Serve over cooked pasta well oiled with olive oil, or boiled rice, or crispy pan-fried potatoes. (This where I sprinkled a bit of cheese on top.)

All of us loved this recipe, and the leftover sauce was great on pasta the next day. 

Here’s a link to this recipe at Market to Mouth: http://markettomouth.blogspot.com/2009/04/living-richly-simply.html

Feel free to share any recipes you want to as well.  You can email them to me at swatibharteey@rcn.com  and I will post them (crediting you of course) or you can leave it in a comment.

Enjoy the chicken!                                                                    

Swati

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Easy, Healthy Pumpkin Bread (YUMMY)

on Nov 20, 2009 in Delicious Recipes Only

Hi Everyone:   I’ve gotten some requests to post recipes so I thought I would share some favorites with you.  Today’s recipe is healthy and easy Pumpkin Bread.  Thanks to my devilish friend Lesley for sharing it with me (by the way, she has her own children’s clothing business at www.cheekybanana.com check it out as […]

 
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Working Moms Losing Custody Battles in Divorce

on Nov 18, 2009 in Articles

Hi all: I wanted to share this sobering article from Working Mother Magazine with you.  It is about an emerging trend: women losing custody battles in divorce.  It may not surprise anyone to hear about the increasing number of women taking on the role of breadwinner for their families while their husbands stay home and […]

 
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My First Night Out as a Single Mom

on Nov 16, 2009 in Dating as a Single Mom

Hi everybody, The first time I felt the itch to socialize and date as a single mom, I was just two months out of court, post-divorce, not really knowing what I was after. But I knew I needed some new people in my new life.  So grab a coffee or a cocoa, take a leisurely […]

 
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Talk to Your Kids About Working and Why It’s Important (Secret 5: Balancing Work and Single Motherhood

Talk to your kids about working and why it’s important Hi everybody:  Talking to your child(ren) about working and why it’s important is Secret Number 5 in my five part series on gaining a better balance between working and being a single mom.  It’s important our kids recognize the importance of working and what it […]

 
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5 Secrets for Balancing Work and Single Motherhood (Number 4)

End Your Relationship with Self-Imposed Guilt Once upon a time, there was a single working mom who was a consultant.  And she had a H.U.G.E. client proposal to turn in by the end of the week.  She also had a team of four highly capable consultants working for her, plus a very flexible Partner (the […]

 
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Number 3: I am Super Single Mom, former Superwoman…

…Hear Me Roar Pass Out In point number one in this series on balancing work and single motherhood, we spoke about the importance of understanding what your boss/institution/company needs from you.  Then, in point number two, we discussed the importance of understanding what you need from your job – and communicating those needs to relevant […]

 
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5 Secrets for Balancing Work and Single Motherhood (Number 2)

Number Two: Know what your needs are and make sure you communicate them to the people you work with. I have failed myself in determining my needs and sharing them with my work colleagues so many times, I decided to stop counting! When I first became a single mom, I tried my best to hide […]

 
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5 Secrets for Balancing Work and Single Motherhood (Number 1)

Hi everyone – This is a topic we all struggle with…trying to find some kind of balance between single motherhood and work.  This is the first post in a 5 post series… Number One: Are you clear on what your company and what your boss need from you? This may seem like a funny place […]

 
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Observations on how the world works, according to our kids…

on Oct 30, 2009 in Quotes from Kids

I got to thinking about all of the cutie pie things my daughter has said to me over the last 6 or 7 years (not that her first year of girly gurples and tweets wasn’t cute, it just wasn’t coherent)….and I thought we should really have a section in the blog to record those tales […]

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