Grilled Chipotle Chicken is a favorite of mine.

In a food processor combine 4 or 5 chipotle peppers with about a teaspoon of the adobe sauce.  Add 1 teaspoon cumin, salt, pepper, 1 teaspoon of paprika and about 1/2 a teaspoon of garlic powder.  Add about a Tablespoon of olive oil and combine.
Pour sauce all over preferred chicken pieces and let marinate at least 4 hours and then grill as normal.



Served with rice and a stuffed Big Jim pepper...a great dinner.
ENJOY!!

A Great Summer Sunday Dinner

Tilapia marinating in lemon, red pepper fakes, paprika, oregano and black pepper.



Tilapia grilling on cedar plank for 10 minutes.

Grilled steak and black beans and rice for me.

Grilled Tilapia with black beans and rice for my husband.

Black Beans and Rice

Saute in olive oil half a diced onion, 1 jalapeno minced, 1/2 diced green pepper, 1 or two cloves of garlic minced.  Cook until a little tender.

Add in two cups of black beans.  Either canned or beans that were soaked over night work well.

Add two cups of diced tomatoes.

Mix in...1 tsp oregano

dash of red pepper flakes

1/2 teaspoon cumin

salt and pepper to taste

and about 1 tsp of lemon juice.

Bring to a boil then turn heat down to low, cover and let simmer for 1 hour.

Make favorite rice to spoon beans and rice over and garnish with fresh cilantro.

ENJOY!!!

Grilling for 3

I work outside the house on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday ten and a half hours so it's really important to keep dinners simple on those 4 nights.
I try to prepare the meals for those days when I'm off. Today I took time to prepare and precook some of Monday and Tuesdays dinners.

We had burgers and potatoes on the grill for dinner tonight.  Since the grill was already hot I threw on a couple of sausage links and some chicken legs.

The sausage links are going to get cut up into a New Orleans type spicy rice for Monday.

The chicken legs well there are SO many options with pre cooked chicken but I'm leaning towards just reheating them and mixing up some quick mac n cheese and some veggies for Tuesday.

So dinners are planned and as pre cooked as they can be until Wednesday when I'm off again.
It's a lot easier to make it through those long work days when I know dinner is taken care of. You don't have to have a strict concrete plan.  Just a small bit of thinking ahead is a real help for us here at our house.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SAFE AND PEACEFUL HOLIDAY!
This was our dinner with salad and tomatoe's from our little garden. It was a great meal. Now I'm about ready for the FireWorks!!