Charmed Chatter

Tonight was me and my husband Dan's one month wedding anniversary... So I decided to wing a couple new recipes as a (hopefully delicious) treat for me. I mean us. I settled on whipping up a bunch of crazy things to make:

Chubalicous Cherry Stuffed Chicken with
Happily Married Ginger and Cinnamon Beets
and
Make Him Marry You, Again Potatoes (Aptly named because my husband asked me to marry him again after this meal).

Chubalicious Cherry Chicken
I have recently gotten really into cooking meat with fruit preserves lately; apricot preserves, raspbery preserves... Anyway, I bought this cherry kind the other day at Safeway: Wilken and Sons Ltd. Cherry Fruit Spread, and it is AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS. So I wanted to try a stuffed chicken recipe with it, and this is what I came up with... Hope you enjoy as much as we did!

Whatcha Need:
•3 fresh chicken breasts, pounded to 1/4 inch thick
•1 tablespoon of Wilken and Sons Cherry Fruit Spread with 1 tablespoon of olive oil mixed well in a small bowl

Stuffing:
•1/4 cup of Wilken and Sons Cherry Fruit Spread
•1/4 cup of light Feta cheese
•1/2 teaspoon of basil
•2 cloves of crushed garlic
•A dash of salt and pepper

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees f.

Mix all the stuffing ingredients together in a bowl with a fork by mashing it. Then spread equal parts on to the middle of the 1/4" thick chicken breasts. Roll them up so the stuffing is inside, and place them on a baking rack in a baking dish with the seam up. Cook for 25 minutes, then remove them from the oven and glaze the outsides with the olive oil and fruitspread mixture and a sprinkle of basil. Return to the oven on 375 degrees for another 15 minutes. Brown by turning the oven to a low broil and keeping a watchful eye!

Happily Married Ginger Cinnamon Beets
I went out to the garden and picked a bunch of fresh beets and created this yummy side dish for us, but you can use store-bought beets... No problemo!

Whatcha Need:
•8 medium small sized beets, peeled and sliced in 1/8 inch rounds
•3 tablespoons butter
•1 teaspoon salt
•1 teaspoon ground black pepper
•1 teaspoon crushed chili peppers
•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
•1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
•2 teaspoons lemon juice

In a sauce pan, cover the beets with 1 inch of water. Bring to a boil for approximately 10 minutes, until beets are tender and you can pierce with a fork fairly easily. Once ready, drain beets into a colander.

In the same sauce pan, on low heat, combine all remaining ingredients and stir until well blended. Add beets into the saucepan and bring heat up to medium high. Stir regularly until the sauce thickens into a glaze.

Make Him Marry You, Again, Potatoes

Whatcha Need:
•4 medium red potatoes, skin on, cubed to 1".
•4 cloves of crushed garlic
•1 teaspoon of rosemary
•2 teaspoons of lemon pepper seasoning
•1 tablespoon of olive oil

Mix all of the above in a small baking dish. Cover and cook in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, then uncover, stir, return it to te oven and cook for 25 more minutes at 400 and finally leave uncovered at 375 for another 15 minutes. You will notice that these times and temperatures coincide perfectly with the chicken, so you can cook them together with the beets on the stove... Genius!!

I hope you enjoy these recipes, I would love your feedback!!!