I was looking for something familiar with a twist to serve for Bytes’ birthday dinner. Flipping through a stack of recipes I saw Chicken Piccata Ummm – don’t think so – sounds like directions for playing piano. When the same recipe popped up again I took another look. Oh, it’s chicken with a lemon garlic sauce. I can do that! Picatta, loosely translated, means zesty. This dish has a lemon lilt flavored with fullbodied garlic. Light but definitely zesty, by whatever name you call it. I had never noticed chicken cutlets in the grocery store before. However, they were in the freezer in all three of the grocery stores I frequent. I spend a lot of time reading labels, but not looking at frozen chicken apparently! A cutlet is about a quarter inch thick up to about half an inch ... [Read More]
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Lemon Blossoms
This is one of the rare recipes I didn’t tweak the first time I made it. After all, who is going to mess with Paula Dean?? Not this little chickadee! I followed the recipe exactly. She said it yielded 60 blossoms but I came up with exactly 48. The yield may depend on the size of your tart/mini muffin pans. I used a teaspoon to fill each cup half full so when the cake rise they don’t come over the top of the cup. The batter is quite thick. Be sure to generously spray the muffin tins. Or you could find yourself washing stuck on muffins out of them so you can do the next batch – just sayin’. Of course if you own pans that will let you make four dozen at once, just disregard – or better not. Everything comes out better with generosity. One batch was cool when I dipped it into ... [Read More]
Lemon Poppyseed Zucchini Bread
Lemon Poppyseed Zucchini bread came about because zucchini is a prolific producer. If you’ve ever grown it or lived within five miles of a zucchini plant you can probably testify to that fact! That’s a good thing if you like healthy fare, but it is a challenge to find new and different ways to use zucchini every day in order to keep up with the supply. Wheel’s sister, found this tasty recipe to add lemony goodness to zucchini. Harvest continues up to frost so chances are you or your favorite gardener may still have fresh zucchini available. You can add this to your holiday meal – or have a refreshingly different bread for a weekend brunch. Serve after baking or wrap tightly and freeze for up to three months. Either way -- delicious!!! While visiting family recently, we got to ... [Read More]
Spinach Bacon Salad with Lemon Garlic Dressing
A classic spinach, bacon combination with a wonderful new lemony twist for the dressing. A winner! Donna brought this to a ladies lunch and was generous enough to share the recipe Spinach needs cool weather to grow so it is most available fresh from September through November and again in the spring from March through May. You can store it in the refrigerator for up to a week. Spinach is a powerhouse for nutrition. One serving provides almost half the daily requirement of Vitamins A, B (folates), and C, and a quarter of the iron needed, plus a significant amount of minerals and other nutritional elements. (Minimal carbs, too!) Donna used a 1 pound package to serve a group and dressed the entire salad before serving. I adapted by using a 12 oz package and still had two meals with ... [Read More]