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CHEATER CHICKEN SOUVLAKI

Ok, so if you love Chicken Souvlaki in any greek resturant, like I do, then this recipe is VERY compareable!  I love that it is so easy to prepare and make.

For the first year of my sons life, I would be up nearly every day around 4am to nurse, so I would switch the TV onto the food network and the show Fixing Dinner was on at that, ungodly, hour of the morning... One day last year I was browzing around on the internet looking for, yet again, something to make for dinner that was different and yummy and I came across the Food Network Website and thought I should look up the Fixing Dinner site, seems as I hadn't nursed my son at 4am for at least 6+ months.  The recipe can be found here.

Now for the tips... if you use a bowl with a plastic bag placed inside, it makes for easy handling and less sticky chicken fingers...so to speak!

 The (bonless, skinless) chicken breasts... they are a bit cold/frozen still for easier cutting!

 The marinating ingredients...Extra Virgin Olive oil (evoo), white wine, Mrs Dash Italian seasoning (cause I didn't have oregano and you need this for the veggies anyways) and lemon juice.

This is after it is all mixed together.  The plastic bag is also good for mixing the ingredients together, no extra dirty spoons/dishes and then you just leave it in the bag to marinate.  (I left the chicken out on the counter to finish the thawing.)

The Veggies... Mushrooms, peppers, zucchini, celery, red onions. YUM!!

All the veggies cut up and ready for seasoning and oven.

The Final Dish!

With added Feta cheese, and I forgot to add the olives.  I love olives and it just adds more to the dish, in my opinion.

Another tip is to just us the store bought tzatziki, if you want this recipe to be even faster to make!

Also, I should add that in the recipe it says to put the chicken back on a low broil.  This means to put your stove on broil but don't move the rack up... leave the chicken in the middle of the oven and leave the oven door open just a bit!!!

Cheers!

A Kitchen Reno...

So I have to start out by saying that this kitchen reno has been a LONG time in the making.  It all started when my husband (boyfriend at the time) moved back from Fairview Alberta, where he was taking a college course.  We have taken soo long doing this reno for many reasons, but mostly because we either have no money but lots of time, or no time and lots of money.  We just recently got ourselves back on track and we were able to get the kitchen in workable order this past holiday season.  The first 3 picture are before (going from left to right).  Please excuse the mess, it turned into a dumping ground for "stuff"!  You should have seen the boxes and garbage bags full of crap we through away.....

 Oh I should explain this photo (above).. the big hole in the wall is so that we could run the electrical for the stove.  It will eventually be a wall that is flush to the bottom part and sticking out a bit at the top part of the wall (if that makes any sence)!! 

Ok so this next picture is of a big hole on the "other" side of the wall.  We are going to make a cupboard here, so we can access it from this side, seems how the other, "kitchen" side is blocked by the stove...

My son and dog checking out the hole with a flashlight...

The stove finally in place!!! (see the hole to the right, can't be accessed...)

The plumbing in place for the sink. Thanks to Christopher and Ian... aka; The Plumbers...

My hubby installing the cabinet and water lines in place.

 

Clear countertop! (sort of)

OMG a sink... in place!!!

SINK, COUNTERTOPS AND FAUCET... (Never thought this day would come...)

AHHH.. running water.. finally!!! Yes, I was happy :)

So that is the reno as it is today, we have been cooking and living in this kitchen for about a month now and I LOVE it.  We now just have to decide on countertops.  We are torn between butcher block and tile.. OR... do we just spend the extra money (that we now again don't have) and get something a little bit fancier!?

HMMMMMMMMMMM??!!

CHEERS!