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Pineapple Chicken

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The most recent favorite at our house.

Pineapple Chicken

This is a super yummy meal. You'll want to plan for leftovers!
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Servings: 4 servings
Course: Main Dish
Cuisine: Chicken
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 6 chicken thighs
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup ketchup
  • 3/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1 can (15oz) pineapple chunks
  • 1/4 cup additional pineapple juice (optional)
  • 1 tsp ginger ground
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 cup rice, cooked

Method
 

  1. Whisk together brown sugar, ketchup, soy sauce, juice from pineapple (reserve one tbsp for sauce), ginger and garlic. Pour one-third of the marinade over chicken and refrigerate at least 30 minutes or up to all day. Reserve the remaining marinade for sauce.
  2. When ready to cook, remove the chicken from the marinade and place on a pre-heated grill. Cook for 5-7 minutes on each side.
  3. Pour reserved marinade and one tbsp pineapple juice into a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Whisk in a slurry (cornstarch combined with water) until the desired consistency is reached, Add pineapple chunks and heat through. If you'd like more sauce, you can add an additional 1/4c pineapple juice before you add the slurry.
  4. Serve chicken over rice and top with the sauce.

Notes

Adapted from: Mix and Match Mama

Daniel, Three Months

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Daniel, today you are three months old.  As they say, it’s amazing how time flies.  I absolutely love being your mommy.  You’ve grown and changed so much in these past few months.

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You’re so inquisitive about the world around you.  In the past couple weeks, you’ve really started paying attention to what’s going on – whether watching the dogs move around, or following Daddy and I as we walk away, or even watching TV (you prefer football and cartoons, by the way smile  ).

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Everyone who meets you comments on how happy you are, and it’s true.  You only cry for a few reasons – you’re hungry, sleepy or need a diaper change.  Once those are taken care of, you are all smiles, cooing and talking up a storm.  You eat really well, although, once in a while [Read more…]

About Daniel

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Happy boy.  Friend maker.  Bug catcher.  Book reader.  Snail collector.  T-Rex impersonator.  Costume wearer.

About Alicia

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Wife, mom, dog lover, runner. Doing my best to fall forward every day.