Honey Glazed Chicken and Bacon Bites
Who does not love bacon????? I think that bacon is like a small piece of heaven that God gave us to make our lives more exciting. I think that bacon added to any dish adds an edge to the flavour of that particular food. When I saw this recipe I was quite excited and couldn’t wait to try it. Chicken, bacon and honey….. that should be a bigger piece of heaven. I had this with sweet chilli sauce and I was quite happy with the results. I got this recipe from Kayotic Kitchen but I substituted the coarse mustard for yellow mustard as that was what I had at the time. I think that this would be a great snack/appetizer to offer to guests. Hope you guys will like it too. Happy COOKING!
Ingredients
- 500 grams boneless chicken breasts
- 20 thin bacon slices
- 3 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp (coarse) mustard
- fresh lemon juice
- salt (optional)
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 225 degrees
Cut the chicken fillets into thin strips. Not too thin.Sprinkle salt on them if you like
In a bowl and combine 3 tbsp honey with 2 tsp mustard. Squeeze in about a tbsp or more of lemon juice
Wrap the bacon around the chicken strips. Place them in a roasting tray or on a cookie sheet, brush them with half the marinade
Bake them in the oven for about 10-13 minutes then flip them, brush the other side with the remaining marinade and bake for a further 10-13 minutes
Serve when hot. HAPPY EATING!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/honey-glazed-chicken-and-bacon-bites/Dark Chocolate and Mint Hot Chocolate
Who does not love chocolate??????? And who does not love the combination of chocolate and Mint???? If you don’t you must be MAD!!!. I really enjoy a good hot chocolate but unfortunately I am yet to go to any coffee house or restaurant in Nairobi and get good quality hot chocolate. What they offer in all these establishments is milk diluted with WAY to much water then they add 2 teaspoons of Cadbury’s Chocolate and lie that they are giving you Hot Choco, how disgusting. I experimented with this recipe after I was taken to Max Brenner and I instantly fell in love with the place. They make their own chocolate so the place smells divine and they had these big “barrels” where they were churning the chocolate, my GOD if only we had that in Nairobi……… Nway after one too many visits and too much money spent making someone else rich I decided I needed to learn how to make this so I just tried it and it was good, not as great as Max Brenner but way better than what we get served in the restaurants in Nairobi. Anywho a few weeks ago my colleague Molly and I kept saying how much we love Hot chocolate, how we miss it and how sad it is that we can’t get any in Kakuma, then I thought I might just have the ingredients to make one. So she came over and I made some, we had it with some cinnamon biscuits she got from Nakumatt, it was a small piece of Heaven in the desert. Now that the weather is chilly I’m sure this might just come in handy. Enjoy!!!!
Ingredients
- 1 ltr of Milk
- 150 gms good quality dark chocolate (lindt is great, I did not have this at the time so I used dark cooking chocolate)
- 2 tablespoons dried mint ( if you can get fresh even better)
Instructions
Heat the milk and the mint in a large saucepan over medium heat until it just starts to boil.
Sieve through to remove the mint
Add the chocolate, stir with a metal spoon until all the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth.
Divide among 4 mugs.
You could also use a few drops of peppermint essence instead of the dried or fresh mint but I prefer fresh mint.
SWEET and SPICY HONEY GRILLED PRAWNS
I’ve been out of the loop for so long I think I even forgot how to both write and cook L being out of the desert and in the city is not good for my cooking practice. But anyway I made this dish a few weeks ago just before I came to Nairobi coz I had some prawns in the freezer that I really did not want to leave in the freezer. I got this recipe on pinterest (I love this site) and traced it to a blog called “Our best Bites”. I was never a fun of seafood and when I got to like prawns there were chili garlic prawns and that is what I have always stuck to until I saw this recipe and just thought I would give a try so as to try something different.
I had it with the lemon dhania rice and it was heavenly. I tweeked the recipe a bit as I did not have all the ingredients that were requested. The sauce was just the right balance of sweet and spicy. But all in all it was a good meal, one of those that you smile as you eat, hope you’ll like it. HAPPY COOKING!
Ingredients
- 2-2 1/2 lb. raw prawns
- 4 Tbsp. minced or pressed garlic
- ¼ cup minced fresh ginger
- 1/4 cup hot chili paste ( you can get this at Nakumatt if not mix/process some red chilies with oil and a bit of salt)
- 1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. freshly-ground black pepper
Instructions
Rinse prawns in cold water and place in a large Ziploc bag or container. Combine garlic, ginger, both chili pastes, honey, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and oil in a large bowl. Whisk thoroughly. Set aside 1 cup of the marinade. Pour remaining mixture over prawns and refrigerate for at least 24 hours and up to 48 hours.
if you using bamboo skewers make sure you soak them in water for at least 30minutes before using them, this prevents them from burning.
Thread the prawns into the skewers
Heat a grill ( I used a griddle pan as I do not have an outdoor grill although this is better done outside due to the smoke) once its hot reduce the heat then place the skewers. Brush the opposite side with some marinade and cook for 1-2minutes, then flip.
once you have flipped the skewer again brush the cooked side with the reserved marinade and cook for another 1-2 minutes until pinkish
Remove from the grill, then remove the prawns from the skewers and place in a bowl then drizzle with remaining marinade
Serve HOT. HAPPY EATING
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