Linda's Chicken

Many years ago, we were visiting our good friends in New Jersey and she made a chicken dish for dinner...I have no idea what it is actually called, or where it came from...we just call it 'Linda's Chicken'.  I really like it because it is yummy, super easy to make and as a parent who doesn't always have a lot of time to figure out meals, I can grab the ingredients and throw it together!  I think we could all use a handful of recipes like this!!!

Linda's Chicken

Ingredients

* 6 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
* 1 small Russian Dressing (use about 3/4 of bottle)
* 1 small Apricot/Peach Preserve
* 1 pk. Onion Soup Mix
* Garlic powder (optional)


1. Spray dish with oil, add chicken and sprinkle with salt, pepper and garlic powder.
2. Put into a 350 oven for 15 mins. uncovered.
3. Mix other ingredients well in a bowl, may add more garlic powder to this if desired.
4. Pour mixture over chicken and bake, uncovered, for another 40 mins.
5. Serve with your favourite veggies and salad!
Enjoy!

This is the little face I had looking at me all through dinner...Bailey (B-ster is one of his many nicknames) is definitely a meat eater...after Little Miss and I were done our dinner I gave him a little to taste...he gobbled it up!!  I was surprised at first, but then I remembered, as a kitten he ate my spaghetti sauce!! 

If you have some great recipes you want to share, please email them to me so I can share them with everyone!!

Easter Tree!

Just a quick little post for today...my Mom received this email about an Easter tree in Germany. It was too pretty not to share with the rest of you!

'Strangely enough, such a thing as an Easter tree already exists, and it can be found in Germany. Around 1945, when he was just a young boy, Volker Kraft saw his very first Easter Tree (Eierbaum, Osterbaum or Ostereirbaum, in German), and decided he would have one of his very own, when he grew up. Time passed and young Volker became a married man, with a family and everything. But his childhood dream stuck with him and he decorated his first Easter Tree, in 1965. He used 18 colored plastic eggs.

But the tree was growing fast and he and his wife, Christa couldn’t afford to waste so many Easter eggs. So they began drilling holes into the eggs, using the contents in the kitchen, and the painted shells as decorations. When their children grew up, they started helping with the decorating,and the Easter Tree became a family tradition, known not only in their home town of Saalfeld, but all of Germany.'

After their kids moved out of the house, it seemed the Easter Tree would finally catch a break, but grandsons arrived and the Krafts went back to decorating their giant tree. The number of Easter eggs hung by the tree’s branches grew every year,and in 2010 it reached an incredible 9,500 eggs.

There are many websites that have this information on it, but I got this one from here and then I found what I think is the original site! I hope everyone had a great Easter!!