October Favorite Things: Favorite Meals - Greek Chicken and Quinoa

We have several meals that we really enjoy as a family!  Tonight we had one of those meals...Greek Stuffed Chicken with Greek Quinoa and fresh hummus (made right before dinner!)! YUM!  The only thing missing was some fresh pita, naan, or laffa!  Just as a side note, the picture below was taken in the spring when we had roasted romanesco along with dinner.  I was going to take a new, better picture tonight, but by the time I remembered, everything had been devoured. Oops.

The chicken recipe is from Men's Health a few years ago.  I was still able to find the link for it, though.  Check it out here: Greek-style stuffed chicken!

Here is the fantastic hummus recipe that I used: Smooth Hummus Recipe by Inspired Taste

Seriously, with their help, I have conquered hummus.  Until I discovered this recipe, I just couldn't make it turn out right.  Now I'm dreaming of Roasted Pine Nut Hummus and other varieties! 

As for the Greek Quinoa recipe, it comes from the amazing folks over at Two Peas and Their Pod.  This Greek Quinoa Salad is one of my all time favorites!!!  

If you want to learn more about romanesco, click here! And just for the fun of it, here is a laffa recipe I might need to try: Laffa Bread! Happy eating!

October Favorite Things: Sunday Night Breakfast for Dinner!!

I love to cook for my family and I really enjoy trying new recipes.  By end of the week, though, I am tired of planning, preparing, and cooking meals.  Saturday is usually a free for all ( hopefully including leftover pizza from Friday night pizza night).  Sunday lunch is generally some sort of basic meat, thrown on the grill, with a side or two.  Again, think easy and fast.

And then comes Sunday night!  Again, after a week of trying to have well-balanced, healthy, tasty meals, I am DONE!  Hence, Sunday night breakfast for dinner was started! We have had this tradition for quite a few years now.  Of course, it doesn't happen EVERY Sunday night, but for the most part it's just what we do.  And it takes SOOOO much pressure off of me.  We rotate between pancakes, waffles, biscuits, oven baked oatmeal, breakfast sandwiches, etc., with an occasional more "complicated" breakfast thrown in (think homemade cinnamon rolls or biscuits with gravy).  This is accompanied usually by some sort of breakfast meat, eggs, and fruit.  Voila!  Dinner is served.  Mom is happy and so is everyone else!

**On the menu tonight were pancakes, a sausage and egg scramble, and orange slices! Coming soon...links for recipes, my pinterest page, and more!

P.S.  Don't you just love that M-man was showing off for the camera??!!