My Nana always said you cannot count on the weather until after Easter. Last Friday? 83 F degrees. This Friday? There is a chance of SNOW! I don’t have time for snow – I’ve got a conference to put on in 29 days which requires lots of driving and I do not drive in snow. Also, we are planning Rocket’s Dol (1st birthday party) in 25 days and that also requires driving that I will not do in the snow. The last thing is that Lawyer Boy and Minnie Mouse are getting married two months from yesterday and a reality show that has been filming them since last fall will be there – I have to find good step-mother-of-the-groom attire and I can’t do that in the snow! The snow will be more welcome in late July or early August. I believe I’ll speak to the meteorologist about that!
So – I’m still working on perfecting my sugar cookie ability. I still suck. My sweet Bugs Bunny and Dupelo Bunny look more like some crazed killer rabbits! Take a look…….
My Failed Sugar Cookie Attempt!
When you are finished laughing I will continue…………
Go ahead, show all the people in the room………..Now they are laughing too, huh?
I’ll keep working on it – the cookies taste really good but I don’t care much for the icing this time. I’ll try another soon. Meantime, I found this recipe on allrecipes.com and since I had some chicken breast strips in the fridge I thought I would give it a go. It was very easy and they turned out great! I made my recipe for those Cheesy Garlic Biscuits you can get at Red Lobster and other restaurants. Even though I just could not show it in the picture, I’ll be honest and say we also had some Blue Box Mac N Cheese because that’s Mr. Picky Eater’s favorite and he’s really deserving of what he likes these days. So, on with the recipe!
Baked Chicken Nuggets
Ingredients:
I Package of chicken breast strips
1 Cup Italian bread crumbs
½ Cup Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon thyme
1 Tablespoon basil
1/2 Cup melted butter
Directions:
1. Rinse and blot chicken strips dry on paper towels
2. Cut into 1 ½ inch pieces
3. Mix breadcrumbs, cheese, salt, thyme, and basil
4. In separate bowl melt butter
5. Dip chicken pieces in butter
6. Roll in breadcrumbs and place on non-stick sprayed sheet pan
7. Bake for 20 minutes in a 400 F degree oven
8. Allow to rest about 10 minutes and serve!
Your chicken looks wonderful! Need some cookie tips? Check out my niece’s blog, she’s a cookie queen!
http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/?bloggerURL=%2F
Thank you for dropping by – I will check it out and I have before! My friend over at Chocolate, Chocolate, and more Chocolate is a huge fan of Sugarbelle’s!
These look really good! I may have to give them a try (gluten free of course) and see how they fit into my meal planning.
I’m sure they would be! Thanks for dropping by!
The chicken looks so delicious – I would pass on the boxed macaroni, though.
Lillian
Me too!
Ugh. I’m ready for spring. I was just planning my spring-inspired post for tomorrow and realized I was taking photos of fully bloomed magnolia trees on the 18th of March last year. Now? There’s only a few early spring flowers blooming. It makes me sad!
These nuggets look delicious! I usually make my own nuggets and freeze them so I don’t have to buy the processed stuff. I think I’m going to switch my regular recipe out for this one. It sounds aaaaaawesome!
Thank you – it really was. Even when I ate one cold this morning…:) I don’t eat chicken nuggets much, I remember a time when there was no such thing and then McDonald’s started making them…..people of your generation, like my kids, think they are the most wonderful thing but me? Meh….but I did like these!!
Sounds like you are going to really be busy! The chicken nuggets look yummy and I’m sure I will try them in the near future. Try checking out some cupcake frosting decorations – they could easily be used for cookies as well and there are a ton of them on pinterest. 🙂
I’m going to have to do that – I don’t have the patience or maybe really the time to put towards this. It doesn’t come naturally to me and I’m really getting frustrated, but not enough to give up just yet! 🙂
OH MY GOSH Kelli! I just looked at Sweet Sugar Belle’s blog, Go there … I was very impressed! She has bunches of beautiful cookies!!
yes she does! They ARE beautiful and I can only aspire to that sort of perfection.
I’ve never had much luck frosting my sugar cookies either but those chicken nuggets look very nummy!
Thank you! I really do wish I could get this down but I’m not sure I have the patience to keep at it! 🙂
Is it time for true confessions? We have the blue boxes at our house too. I generally don’t make them myself but they are available to those in the family that do. Your chicken nuggets look wonderful! So much better than store or restaurant bought!
P.S. I can HARDLY WAIT for your episode of Say Yes to the Dress!
Oh Lawd – It’s going to be something isn’t it? I don’t know what all they will show but, Mr. Picky Eater and Lawyer Boy are building 2 arbors to be put in the wine field where the ceremony will be held and then they are putting shear fabric around them. One will be at the start of the aisle where she and her dad will be “hidden” and then they will stand under the other with the minister while they are married. The guys are building in the backyard and I’ve been taking pictures of the process that I will post later – but be sure to watch for them on the show….I’m very proud of the work both of them are doing because they have NO plans – just kinda’ making it up as the go! They are $1,000 each to rent and it took $300 in cedar and other lumber to make these two.
Oh, please share the air date!!!
It will be next fall sometime – I will let you all know!
Oh great! This looks delicious 🙂 Thanks for sharing !
Thanks for dropping by!
YUM! I will have to make these for Number Two. He loves them and I never buy nuggets from fast food places for him. These will be perfect.
Good! Let me know how he likes them!
I need to make these for the kids, then they’ll never want a fast food/frozen nugget again.
PS- it’s how the cookies TASTE that’s the important part, I’m sure yours were delicious!
Thank you! And you know what? They tasted great!
Healthier and more delicious looking 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thank you CCU!
Honestly, I love your sugar cookies … I’ve been working on roll out cookies, too, & I just suck at it 🙂
Thank goodness it’s not just me! I am worn out with all the rolling, cooking, icing, and then cleaning up – If effort was counted, they would look like a million bucks!
I feel the same way; although, you get kudos points for getting as far as the icing. I can’t even master the shapes so I never even get to the icing 🙂
Shapes – those are difficult sometimes.
Hmm. I’ve never breaded chicken using butter, just beaten eggs. I’ll bet it’s really delicious, though.
It is but it’s NOT very figure friendly – sometimes, ya just gotta’ go for broke! 🙂 But not very often. Most times I will use eggs
First of all, thanks for the giggle this morning. Killer craze rabbits? Now I am thinking of Monty Python which has me still laughing! P.S. I gave up making rolled sugar cookies a long time ago!
Love this chicken recipe. The Hubs is on me to make a hot wing pizza but I refuse to buy the processed chicken strips for it. Now I can bake them and hope I can pass them off.
I won’t even comment on our weather during SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!
(Do tell about the reality show!)
Monty Python was the picture I was going for! We love him in this house! I’ve never had hot wing pizza but when you make it for him – be sure to post! This morning it is cold and dreary and not supposed to get past 51 and colder this weekend. Chili will be had for dinner tonight! The reality show is called Say Yes To the Dress. The hubs and I haven’t really watched it before but I guess we will in the fall! It’s at a winery – I think the Redbud Ridge Winery – Not positive on that – I’m just doing what I”m told and that means Eischen’s chicken for the rehearsal dinner – that’s all I have to remember!
This recipe looks great! We are making all of our own foods these days so the chicken nuggets will be great for the kids! I am vegetarian but I bet I can use the breading on veggies!:) I am hosting today at my site http://www.frugalfitfamily.com and I am giving a $15 restaurant.com gift card away for the person with the most likes! Swing by if you can!
My in-laws are vegetarian so I am very familiar! I will drop by – thank you for dropping by and please come again!
Those look wonderful. Love the basket you served them in.
stopping by! You commented on my potatoes rancheros on Daily Dish. Pinned these nuggets!
Thank you for dropping by!!
You are right about the killer rabbit thing, but I would have still ate those cookies. 🙂
We ate them – they tasted very good!
LOL Killer bunnies you freaking crack me up!
I am so following you now, we have the same sense of humor love it.
I’m so glad! When I get home from work and am on a computer that was made after the Cold War I will be able to answer these easier and look around your blog some more! I always love a woman who appreciates my sense of humor and one who shares it – is my hero! : )
I love your pictures and recipes, they are mouth watering. Would love for you to share them with us at foodieportal.com. We are new but at foodieportal.com we are not photography snobs, we are just foodies.
Thank you for dropping by and for the invitation – I will be over to check out your page! Please come again any time!
Your food photos are amazing. You can share your mouth watering photos with us at foodienewz.com and your photos published on FoodieNewz without any editorial review.