We all need quick summer recipes and with a little budget meal planning it is possible to create some delicious meals, without spending ages in a hot kitchen.  Make the most of the outdoors:  get out your cold picnic food recipes and head on out.  Alternatively, make the most of barbeque recipes:  grilled chicken marinades and barbeque dry rub recipes transform the simplest chicken fillet or cut of meat and elevate them into a simple but delectable meal.

Grilled Chicken Marinade Recipe

This Grilled Chicken Marinade Recipe is ideal as one of your barbeque recipes.  It takes no time to prepare and you can cook the chicken on the gas grill, the open coals or on your hob – it is versatile.

You can do this with chicken pieces that have their skins on them or with boneless skinless chicken breasts, whole or slivered.  This marinade is also works well with fish.

Make a double quantity of this recipe and you can use leftovers for and easy Chicken Salad recipe, a delux Chicken Salad Sandwich or a Paella Recipe.

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Easy
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: about 10 minutes
Serves 4

Ingredients:

1½ lbs / 700g  chicken pieces
1 clove garlic
1″ / 2½ cm piece of ginger, peeled
1 teaspoon paprika
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons oil

Method:
Crush the garlic. Grate the ginger.  Mix together in a shallow bowl which is big enough to take the chicken.  You can blitz the garlic and ginger together if you have a food processor.  Add the paprika, soy sauce and oil.
Place the chicken pieces in a shallow dish and cover with the marinade.  Cover and refrigerate for between 20 minutes and 24 hours, the longer the better.
Heat the grill so that it is really hot.  Place the chicken breasts on the grill, (skin side nearest the heat if this is relevant).  Cook for about 7 minutes.  Turn over and cook for about 5 more minutes.  Check to see that the chicken is cooked all the way through.
If using skinless chicken breasts, you can cut the chicken into slivers. Place the slivers in the marinade.  Push the pieces down so that they are well coated.  Marinade for 20 minutes – 24 hours.  Grill for about 2 – 3 minutes and then turn the pieces over.  Grill for another 1 – 2 minutes until the chicken is just cooked through.
Serve with new potatoes or pasta and a large salad.

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Article by Tanner Bradstreet

Junk food just looks good doesn’t it? I mean it’s colorful, cream-filled, and just down right pleasing to the eyes. Take for example what my kids want for breakfast every morning. Without doing any name dropping here – it’s cream-filled, has sprinkles and has the word sundae in it. I mean come on, what kid wouldn’t want that first thing in the morning, right?

We, as parents, have a lot of competition out there when it comes to trying to get our kids to eat healthy. Instead of caving in and throwing our hands up in frustration, let’s get creative shall we and make healthy recipes for kids?

Think about the foods that your kids beg you to buy at the grocery store. How can you make the same thing that is fun and yummy looking, right at home with healthy ingredients instead? It is possible! Part of it is just the packaging. Oh, those cute little characters they throw on there that our kids just can’t resist. Or those free little toys that you have to buy 5 boxes AND send in money for shipping and handling. You just gotta love those advertisers!

So, maybe we can’t create cute little boxes and bags with free toys inside. (Well, I guess you actually could if you wanted to, but who has the time for that!) What we can do is make food fun. Here are 3 quick and healthy recipes for kids that I think your little ones will eat up in no time. They can also make these with you, which in their eyes will make it taste better already.

Fruit Kabobs – Now this is one colorful recipe and so much fun to make!

Small cluster of green or red grapesTangerineBananaApple (any kind)Wooden Sticks

Take the grapes off of the stem, split the tangerine into sections, slice the apple and banana. Alternate pushing each piece of fruit onto the wooden stick. Lay the sticks on a decorative platter and serve.

Monkey Mix – This is an on-the-go snack. It’s great for kids’ lunches too.

3 cups Cheerios1 cup banana chips1 cup flaked coconut1 cup chocolate chips (substitute raisins if you’d like)

Mix all the ingredients together. Keep it stored in a gallon Ziploc bag.

Fish in a Pond – This is such a fun recipe to eat. Finally kids can play with their food!

Goldfish crackers4 celery stalks, cut off leafy tops

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