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Blackened Chicken with Avocado Cream Sauce

1/28/2015

Blackened Chicken with Avocado Cream Sauce

With the pitter-patter of little Claire feet climbing up my leg, I'm always looking for meals that I can cook in 30 minutes or less. Though I don't completely agree with the "10 minute prep time" this recipe boasts (it took me at least 5 minutes to find the right pan and all the spices), it still went very quickly and took very little effort. I didn't bother getting the food processor out, I just mixed the cream sauce with a fork. You could make little baggies of the blackened spice mix to make prep time even faster.

While I didn't give Claire the chicken because it was spicy, and she couldn't have the yogurt cream sauce, she did very much like the quinoa, so I'll call it a win. I gotta take what I can get :-)

http://www.skinnymom.com/2014/03/28/blackened-chicken-with-avocado-cream-sauce/

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Christmas Cookies!

1/15/2015

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Another belated post... the cookies I made for Christmas this year!

I have been working on creating an icing that is Claire-safe (egg, corn, dairy and soy-free.) So far, I have not had success. These cookies look okay from afar, but there was massive color bleed, they never really set up firm, and the general look of the icing was just not ideal. More experimentation needed!

The Mr. and Mrs. with a couple of their friends...

Wilton's cute reindeer set. The Santa is from a pack of gummy candies I found at Walmart that were surprisingly soft and tasted really good!

Snowman from the same pack of gummies. The black background of the fireplace is painted directly on the cookie with food coloring... in retrospect I would use wet-on-wet with black, yellow and orange icing to get a nicer flow with the flame.

Inspiration:
Fireplace cookie by Dessert Menu Please
Evergreen Trees by Allison Quirk Barrett
Festive Sleigh by Sweet Hill Cookies
Santa, Snowman, and Mrs. Claus cookies by Sweet Sugar Belle

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Teacher Appreciation Day Treats

1/15/2015

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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish... Quite a bit belated and not a very good picture. But these are the treats I made for 25 teachers at Claire's school for Teacher Appreciation Week last year. They were doing a Dr. Seuss theme.

The cellophane bag is stapled on top of the printed card background (i.e. the card is not inside the bag) because I didn't want ink getting on the candy.

I found the fish graphics and the background by just doing a Google Images search. The fish are from Clipartpanda and the wave background from PixShark.com.

Enjoy!

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Blackened Chicken with Avocado Cream Sauce

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