Chicken Pineapple Kebabs

 

OK...You know I love a little hyperbole, a little exaggeration...OK...as the kids say, I'm a little extra🤣

But this was OUTRAGEOUS! 

Chicken Pineapple Kebabs with orzo and sweet potatoes (yea-too many carbs-sue me!)

Prep to plate time about 30 minutes

Chicken: 

I accidentally marinated a chicken breast overnight in olive oil and the Trader Joe's garlic salt seasoning.  A friend called and asked if I wanted to shop and eat Moe's.  

Ummm-queso?  HELL YEAH! Bye-Bye chicken! 

Chicken cut into chunks with fresh pineapple cut into roughly the same size chunks. I got the skewers with my accessory kit, but you could cut down wooden skewers to size. 

350 degrees for about 18 minutes. Turn every 5 minutes and baste with sauce.

Sauce: I AM A GENIUS! 

I don't really like Asian foods, so I never buy any of those flavors...but, in a fit of "I swear I'm going to try new shit",  I bought a tiny bottle of low-sodium soy sauce.  So, brown sugar, soy sauce and pineapple juice (yes, it is for my tequila cocktail, but I sacrificed-I'm so brave😎 )

A couple tablespoons brown sugar, 1/4 cup pineapple juice, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and a splash of water. Heat and stir in a bit of cornstarch with water, heat till thick. LEGIT would eat my shoe if this was spread all over it! 

Side Dishes

I HATE RICE! But the "Asian" feel of this demanded rice. Or that skinny ramen noodle stuff. I have orzo. So orzo, seasoned with a tiny bit of butter, garlic, salt and pepper. I was going to try to put sweet potatoes on the skewers, but the skewers are small, so I added them to the orzo. In all honesty, if my picky-ass self wasn't so picky, this would be awesome with peppers, broccoli, snap peas, pea pods-all the rice veggies.  OR, I hear Trader Joe's has good frozen fried rice. 

In Conclusion

I most likely will never use the skewers again-kebabs always sound like a better idea than they are-but I will make this chicken right in that airfyer! If I had know Max was coming home, I would have added bell peppers and onions to the chicken (the things I do as a mother!) and veggies to the orzo.  

But it was Marlene approved and since this was a night I worked till 8-better than the drive-thru!

Empty Nest and Full Belly!

So I bought an air-fryer and began posting the stupid shit I do with it on Facebook.  I'm told I should write a blog.  I have a blog, so...consider this your invitation to the wedding 😂 A Three way marriage between the air-fryer,  Facebook and my desire/need to write again! I am nothing if not open-minded...

Please feel free to look into my past posts while you are here.  I used this space for years to write poetry, write posts based on prompts from writing groups and to just get some stuff out of my system.  I will go back and delete anything really dated or irrelevant, but some of this is my best writing. 

I have a few suggestions if you'd like to read a couple of things...

Where I'm From 

Dad

If this is a mid-life crisis, where is my red Corvette?   This one was actually published on the  More magazine website.  To bad it doesn't exist any more! 

I will post the air-fryer stuff to save my Facebook friends**Tee-Hee**but I think I will write the other stuff again, too. 

I have missed it

Yes-I just did this

**TMI ALERT**

The first in series of public service messages to keep you informed about my new hopping empty-nest, 50-something life...

I just went out in the pouring rain (without a bra) to buy a Butterfinger and a lottery ticket...I really need to find a man to do this kind of crap for me :)

  

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18

There is a war raging here.

A girl becomes a woman.

A mother becomes a friend.

Together

So we scrimmage

Come in-sync laughing

then crying silently

Apart

The emotional assault

Almost unbearable

We love hard

In concert

and wait for her life  to begin