Learning to Cook!

I was given a Better Homes and Garden cookbook recently as a "welcome to Campus Outreach staff" gift, and so I decided (along with the other younger single staff) to cook something from the cookbook every week!

We all decided that we really need to learn to cook, and since we are all in our early 20's, now would be the time! :) 

So for our first recipe and week one of this new tradition, I decided to make "Citrus-herd marinated chicken" since I already had frozen chicken breasts in the freezer. 

I thawed the chicken breasts overnight.

Then I worked on making the marinade:

1/3 cup lemon juice (or orange juice)

1 tablespoon honey

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 tablespoon snipped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed

1 tablespoon snipped fresh rosemary or 1/2 teaspoon teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed

2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot (which I learned are green onions!)

1 clove garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

 Then I put the chicken breasts in a plastic ziploc and poured the marinade in, and mixed it around. I let the chicken marinate for about 3 hours in the fridge (the recipe called for 2-4 hours)

 Once marinated, I put the chicken on tin foil on a baking sheet (the recipe called for a broiling pan, so we made do with what we had)

We also cooked up some asparagus as our side, using olive oil, salt, and pepper on the stove top

We broiled the chicken for 6 minutes, then turned them and put more marinade on them and let them broil another 9 minutes.

We topped our asparagus with some parmesan cheese also.

It was actually much easier than I thought, and I enjoyed making something so tasty! Everyone loved it :) 

I'm excited to see how many things I am able to make after this year with my single staff friends!