Coconut Chicken salad

Prepare yourselves, because this blog is being taken over by Pinterest posts!
Last night i tried yet another recipe and it was GREAT! It was easy, relatively fast and I had everything in the house already. Ethan LOVED it too which is a major plus! We eat grilled chicken and veggies EVERy....SINGLE....NIGHT, so i wanted to mix it up a little bit. Give it a try, i bet you'll love it too!

P.S. this is another "stolen" picture....the ones on the website are just so much prettier than mine.



CHICKEN:
• 6 (about 12 oz) chicken tenderloins
• 6 tbsp shredded coconut
• 1/4 cup bread crumbs
• 2 tbsp crushed cornflake crumbs
• 1/3 cup egg substitute or egg whites
• pinch salt
• olive oil spray

SALAD:
• 6 cups mixed baby greens
• 3/4 cup shredded carrots
• 1 large tomato, sliced
• 1 small cucumber, sliced

Vinaigrette:
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp white vinegar (balsamic would work too)
• 2 tsp Dijon mustard

Whisk all vinaigrette ingredients; set aside.

Preheat oven to 375°.

Combine coconut flakes, bread crumbs, cornflake crumbs and salt in a bowl. Put egg whites or egg beaters in another bowl.
Lightly season chicken with salt. Dip the chicken in the egg, then in the coconut crumb mixture. Place chicken on a cookie sheet lined with parchment for easy cleanup. Lightly spray with olive oil spray and bake for 30 minutes turning halfway, or until chicken is cooked through.Place 2 cups baby greens on each plate. Divide carrots, cucumber, tomato evenly between each plate. When chicken is ready slice on the diagonal and place on top of the salad.

Happy eating!

XOXO Brogan Lee

Chocolate covered strawberry pie

Here's another pinterest recipe!! I took the picture off the website (mine did not look this pretty). But boy oh boy, it was DELISH!! So good in fact, that I made it on Saturday, let it set overnight and it was gone by Sunday afternoon! Price and I both have quite the sweet tooth! If you like cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries, I strongly recommend this dessert!



1 quart fresh strawberries, sliced
1 (8oz) package of cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup confectioners sugar
2 cups white chocolate chips
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 chocolate pie crust (like Oreo)

Melt 3/4 cup of of the white chocolate chips in the microwave (30 second intervals)for about 1-2 minutes, being careful not to burn. Set aside.

Beat the heavy cream, vanilla extract, & 1/2 cup of the confectioners sugar with an electric mixer in a bowl until it becomes thick.

In a separate bowl, beat together the softened cream cheese, the other 1/2 cup of confectioners sugar, & the cup of melted white chocolate.Gently fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture.

Spread the cream into the chocolate pie crust. (I recommend not putting all of the cream in the crust at first. There is a lot of cream and it will overflow as you stuff in the quart of strawberries.) Then, press the sliced berries into the mixture ALL over it. Find every single available nook & cranny, and shove a berry in it!

Melt the remaining white chocolate in one bowl & melt the milk chocolate in another. Drizzle the melted milk chocolate on first…then the white chocolate. Make sure the drizzles are thin and spread out because if you pour the chocolate on top (like i did) it is impossible to cut when the chocolate chips harden again.

Happy eating! I'm sure there will be more Pinterest recipes to come!

Lots of Love and Bunches of Hugs,
XOXO Brogan Lee

Rollie Pollie

Thats right! Our little pollie is a rollie!! Maverick waited until the week I went back to work to start rolling over and I missed it! :( Luckly Price happened to have the day off and caught it on film. Mav is going to be 4 months old in a few days and I cannot believe how fast time is going by! I think the best part of this video is Prices commentary. He was so excited to see one of the kids "firsts" before me. Even though it made me sad that i missed it, i'm glad that he was there to experience it. Enjoy!!

Lots of Love and Bunches of hugs

XOXO Brogan Lee

Beach day

It's the first weekend of march and the last day of my maternity leave and San Diego decided to spoil us with an 82 degree day! We loaded the kids and dog up and headed to IB. It was Maverick and Lucy's first time to the beach. Unfortunately we didn't go to Dog Beach so we couldn't let her off the leash for very long and I think she was pretty sad about it. Lucy LOVES the sand and the water and everything about being there. If next weekend is this nice, we will have to go to Dog beach to let her run around. Maverick didn't seem to be the biggest fan of this outing. I'm assuming it may have something to do with the fact that he pooped all over himself about 30 minutes after we arrived and while I was changing him he got covered in sand. I don't like when i have tons of sand under my clothes either. Ethan and Preston have really grown to love the beach. The last time we went out, Preston screamed when he got wet and Ethan started crying the minute we stepped foot on the sand and cried so hard for so long that he passed out for over an hour on the towel. This time they were so excited to be there that they were running all over the place, climbing the rocks, running into the water and digging in the sand like crazy. It made me happy to see them enjoying it so much. Now that they are getting more comfortable around the water I need to get them in swim lessons!
Oh, and I can't NOT mention Prices favorite part of the day.... Massive hamburgers, waffle cut fries and a 32 oz beer from the pier restaurant! (He hates when I take food pics so one is not included.) It has been about 2 years if not longer since he has eaten there and as soon as a trip to IB was mentioned, that was the 1st thing that came to him mind ;)
I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend to! Tomorrow I'm back to work and sure to cry at least a few times! :( I'm going to miss the boys so much and I'm nervous I'm not going to remember anything! I'll just have to cross my fingers and see how it goes!
Lots of Love and Bunches of Hugs,
XOXO Brogan lee

Pinterest

Pinterest is my new obsession! I have been on it twice and spent, no joke, about 4 hours browsing all the amazing things other people have "pinned". I made these Rolo brownies the other night and they were AMAZING! I didn't follow the recipe but I'm assuming it was more or less the same thing. I let The boys whipped up brownie mix, put it into a mini muffin pan, then they stuck Rolo's in the center, and baked for 25 mins. Once cooled we poured chocolate glaze over the top then drizzled with Carmel sauce. I highly recommend giving these a shot. I have about 40 desserts I want to try but I'm going to have to have strong will power because I'm starting back at work Monday and am going to try to go back on a struck diet and hit the gym again. But maybe every now and then I can splurge and try a new recipe. But back to Pinterest.... Get on there, search, save and enjoy! I have endless clothing ideas, meal ideas, desserts, house decor ideas and now I'm going to hop on the motivational workouts. My sister and BFF have been trying to get me to check it out for months and have been telling me I'd love it but I just never got around to it. Now that I am on it, I'm hooked! I

Breakfast tacos

Left overs can make a darn good breakfast! This is what I did with ours the other morning. I chopped up our BBQ chicken, some tomatoes, bacon, cilantro, green onion and avocado, scrambled some eggs and mixed it all together. I piled everything into a corn tortilla I toasted on the burner and topped with Frank's Red Hot (because i put that s**t on everything ;) ) and extra sharp cheddar cheese AND ta-da!!! An excellent breakfast!

"My" ladies

Super Bowl weekend the fam (minus Price) and I were in Fresno in celebration of Miss Nora Grace. Nora is my youngest niece and was being baptized and I was honored to be asked to be her God mother. My sister and her family live on the east coast and made the trip out to Cali to have Nora baptized at the same church Sydney (my other niece) was baptized at and to have the family present. I don't get to see my girls near enough and LOVE every minute I get to spend with them. Sydney is SO smart, and so sweet and so talkative and speaks so well. She amazes me! I loved spending the afternoon with her. We sat on my dads floor and squirted almost a whole can of whipped cream in our mouths and giggled! My goal is to spoil her as much as possible whenever we're together to try to gain the favorite aunt title ;) sorry Karlene!! haha! Just kidding. But I do remember when I was little and staying up way past my bed time at my Aunt Kelleys house and being allowed to eat pretzels with mustard in her bed while we watched movies. Those are the fun memories i want to create with my nieces whenever we're together!
Nora is one of the happiest little girls I have ever been around. As soon as my brother in law showed up at my dads house, I swooped her up and she was rolling with laughter. Her ear to ear smiles melt my heart! Unfortunately the little sleepy head knocked out for the majority of her visit with us and I didn't get too much quality spoiling time in, but they'll be back to California 3 more times this year and in plan to do serious Auntie damage then! ;)
Sorry there are not any action baptism shots. Because I was standing up there with the misses ( and cell phones were not allowed) I didn't get any snap shots but I did see many cameras in my peripheral vision so I'm sure I'll be able to "borrow" a few later.
A big round of applause to my sis and her hubby for raising two amazing little girls! Only about 2 more months until those little ladies get another taste of auntie spoiling 101!

Lots of Love and Bunches of Hugs,
XOXO Brogan Lee