A Fun Chicken Dish

Ingredients
5-6 pound whole chicken
1 large lemon
3 ears of corn
4-5 small plums or any fruit with a pit
1/2 cup of honey
1/2 cup of grapeseed oil or (vegetable)
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper

Preparation
Pre-heat oven at 350*
Rinse chicken well sprinkle half the salt and pepper on chicken.
Squeeze lemon on the chicken.
Pour half the honey on chicken and brush all over the chicken.
Put corn, fruit and the squeezed lemon in the same pan add salt,
pepper and honey to the fruit and corn.
Pour oil on chicken and in pan.
Cook for 1 hour to 1 1/2
Base the chicken and fruit every 15 minutes.

Side Dish
1 cup of Trader Joe's organic Quinoa
2 cups of chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
1 pinch of salt and pepper
3 leaves of fresh basel
1 can of kidney beans

Preparation
Combine all ingredients excepts for kidney beans
 put in a pot, bring to a boil.
Once the ingredients come to boil lower the the flame stir
and put a top on it, for ten minutes.
Add rinsed kidney beans and continue cooking until
all moisture is absorbed.

This is an easy dish and it will definitely be a favorite.


Serves 4-6 

Beef Stew in a slow cooker

Ingredients
1 to two pounds of stew meat
16 ounce container or can of beef broth
4 chopped inch thick and peeled carrots
4 chopped and peeled potatoes 2 inches thick
3 celery stalks chopped inch thick
1 chopped onion 1/4 inch thick
1 fresh corn stalk peeled and break (cut) in half to fit in crockpot
1 cup of peas
1/2 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of minced jarred garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1teaspoon pepper

Preparation
Place meat in crockpot, potatoes, carrots, celery in this order.
Then add all of the above and mix

Add frozen peas an hour before serving

If consistency is not thick enough add another 1/2 cup of flour
1 hour before serving.

Cook for 8 hours on low.


Serves 4-6

Summer Pasta

This recipe is from Andrea one of Chat Me More's Followers.


Ingredients:
1 pound to 1 1/2 of penne pasta
2 cups of grape tomatoes
1 1/2 cup of toasted pine nuts
2 cups of olive oil
1 container of feta cheese
8 chopped leaves of fresh basil
2 tablespoons of roasted garlic powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper

Preparation
- boil pasta to preference
 - drain and add all the above ingredients
- mix well and put in the refrigerator over night


This dish can also be served hot.

Serve 4-6