Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken

We don’t watch a whole lot of cable television in our house, but when the TV is on it often seems to be on some sort of cooking show. What can I say, it’s a pleasure to watch good food being made! In fact, one of the few shows that we made a concerted effort to watch regularly was My Kitchen Rules (the Australia version), which was fantastic. Normal people making amazing food in their own kitchens, then cook-offs at a beautifully equipped chef’s kitchen. A lot of their recipes were pretty gourmet, though, requiring ingredients or equipment that I probably won’t own for a few years.

However, on one TV watching occasion, I saw this dish being prepared on Master Chef. I went online to find the recipe, because it just looked so darn amazing and easy to boot. It’s a bit different from your every day chicken dish, too. And let’s not forget that it makes great leftovers for lunch the next day!

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Edited: June 24th, 2010

Broccoli, Bean, and Sausage Salad

At work one afternoon, I started day-dreaming about the veggies in my fridge that needed using up as I hadn’t been home all week to make proper meals with them. So, I concocted this recipe for a healthy, go-to meal for the working lad or lass. I got home from work at around midnight, and was up until 2 am making this and other yummy dishes–it was a bit of an adventure, but this is the revised recipe for a delicious work week. I didn’t hard boil the eggs in my version, but hard boiling them would certainly work better than our semi-poached, semi-scrambled, semi-fried attempt.

This would also make a great dish to bring to a potluck, as it needs to be made ahead of time and travels well. For a vegetarian option, omit the sausage in the salad and use more eggs.

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Edited: January 15th, 2010