This easy chicken tikka masala recipe has three stages: marinating, cooking the chicken and making the sauce. That means you can break it up and do any part when it works for you. It’s not necessarily a traditional tikka masala recipe but this simplified version is zesty without being too spicy. That’s why this easy…
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What I wish I’d known about having backyard chickens
I’ve had backyard chickens for about five years and it’s been amazing. I love it. Benefits of Backyard chickens Chickens eat ticks. They eat compost. They produce even better compost. Backyard chicken egg yolks are the color of the sun. Kids get to experience the natural process of egg production (and the responsibility that comes…
What you need for backyard chickens
Getting chickens? Here is everything you need to get started Want to know what you need for backyard chickens? I’ve had chickens for five years and I love them so much. I have never once regretted having them, which is more than I can say for SO MANY ideas I’ve had in this wild little…
Chicken with Cabbage and Olives Sheet Pan Dinner
Is there anything better than a sheet pan dinner where everything cooks politely in one pan? How about a sheet pan dinner that’s hearty, something you feel good about serving AND a dinner that everyone likes! Our sheet pan chicken with cabbage and olives is exactly that. What you need for this sheet pan chicken,…
Coconut Curry Soup with Chicken & Noodles
This coconut curry soup is like traditional chicken noodle soup that just got a creamy infusion of spices and flavor. It’s so good. For kids who aren’t sure about trying new flavors like curry, chicken noodle coconut curry soup is a perfect place to start: mild, familiar and sweet. Scroll down for more ideas on…
Greek Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
All the mediterranean flavors of Greece — olives, tomatoes, feta cheese, onions — in one sheet pan dinner your whole family will love as much as mine did. As you know, the rules for adding a recipe to foodlets.com is that three out of four kids must love the dinner. They gotta give it a…
Easy Chicken Coconut Curry: Ready in 30 Minutes!
This easy chicken coconut curry comes together in only half an hour. But that’s not the best thing. Here’s the crown and glory: All four of my kids loved it. *And the crowd goes wild…* What I Like About This Easy Chicken Coconut Curry It’s not too spicy, making this a great Intro to Curry…
30-Minute Lemon Chicken with Tomatoes & Kale
This 30-minute chicken dinner is packed with flavor — and healthy ingredients! Use kale, spinach, baby spinach or mustard greens. Anything works. Serve it over a bed of spaghetti and you’ll have a dinner everyone asks to make on repeat. Yes, cook the herbs first. I use boneless, skinless chicken thighs because they’re full of…
10-Minute Buttery Chicken with Zucchini & Herbs
The fastest chicken dinner I’ve ever made started yesterday at 4pm, when we finally rolled through the door. A sweaty group of kids fussing at each other. You know, the basic after-school mode. And on Wednesdays — hooray! — there’s an extra hurdle to leap over: gymnastics starts at 5pm. I don’t even have to…
Super Simple BBQ Chicken Tenders
I love this BBQ chicken so much that I’ve served it every week for the last three weeks straight. You can prep it days in advance or in the middle of a busy morning to eat later that night. Both make delicious results. For the marinade, make a shortcut and use your favorite Italian dressing…
7 Benefits of Backyard Chickens
Thinking about getting backyard chickens? I considered it for YEARS. We lived in an apartment in Rome when the idea first hit me but now that we’re nestled into our mini farm in North Carolina, having backyard chickens is one of those dreams that sounded so fun…and it totally is! 7 Things I love About…
Chicken and Bell Pepper Pasta Bake
There’s nothing I like more than a yummy dinner that can be made from the leftovers of ANOTHER yummy dinner. Cook once, eat twice, cheer, relax and repeat. Tonight’s dinner started with our awesome lemon chicken earlier in the week. This time I cooked it on the grill but you could certainly throw your chicken…
Buttermilk Roasted Chicken from “The Farmhouse Chef”
(Excerpted from “The Farmhouse Chef” by Jamie DeMent.) This recipe is the happy result of a late afternoon meltdown. I had planned to cook fried chicken for a crowd at the farm and, as often happens, the day ran away with me. Pigs got loose and tore up a freshly planted bed. I spent the…
Easy Sour Chicken Kids Love: A Takeout Recipe Makeover!
My kids love sweet and sour chicken–and this recipe is easy. You get easy sweet and sour chicken that’s also healthier than takeout! Every time we order Chinese, sweet and sour chicken is our kids’ go-to request. But all that deep fried chicken and food coloring isn’t my favorite thing to serve for dinner, so…
Kid-Friendly Slow Cooker Chicken Chili
This kid-friendly slow cooker chicken chili is one of the easiest dinners I’ve ever made. But it didn’t start out that way. Back when this chicken chili was a Barefoot Contessa recipe, there were more steps, fewer veggies and certainly more spices. But this DELICIOUS version couldn’t be simpler, or a bigger hit with my whole…
5 Healthy School Lunches Kids Can Make Themselves (With Chicken Breasts & Sausage)
You guys, I was so tired of packing lunches. And school hadn’t even started again yet. So this year I’m trying something different. It’s called Kids Pack Their Own Lunches. We’re on Week 2. It works like this: On the weekend I cut up 5-6 kinds of fruit and veggies and store them on a…
Sheet Pan Lemon Chicken with Potatoes & Asparagus
We flew to Denver to visit my mom’s family when I was 10. My aunt made lemon chicken and I thought I’d never tasted anything so delicious. Juicy. Tangy. Since when do we put fruit on chicken? What is even happening? And why can’t I stop eating it? Today’s recipe is a riff on that…
Chicken & White Bean Chili with Swiss Chard: My 4 Kids’ Favorite Way to Eat Swiss Chard
I did it again. With the Swiss chard in the garden. It always starts so small, this Swiss chard project. Just a handful of tiny seeds, some dirt that I bought dirt from a farmer down the road who swears it’s organic and more than a little hope. (Honestly, buying dirt? That’s when you know your farming dream has gotten…
Your Secret Weapon for an Instant Dinner: DIY Rotisserie Chicken Sandwiches
Sometimes a dinner is so fast it makes itself. That’s the case with one of our favorite ways to use rotisserie chicken: DIY rotisserie chicken sandwiches served along with raw veggies. And for that last part, we like to make things interesting. But still it is not like the one we get in the popular…
Sheet Pan Honey-Mustard Chicken with Potatoes and Broccoli
There’s a honey-mustard chicken dish that everyone in my family loves. And when I say family, I don’t just mean my kids. I’m talking cousins. In-laws. Friends of cousins. That sweet and tangy sauce slathered over juicy chicken thighs is hard to beat. Except when you cook the whole thing over potatoes and add a side…