Wednesday, June 3, 2020

"The Mediterranean Portion of the Heavenly Banqueting Table."

As many are nearing the end of more intense quarantine, I want to thank you all for participating and for the recommendations and camaraderie 😊. We may post less as life gets more crazy, but feel free to keeping posting and to tune back in for further updates and ideas as I've loved having this resource for meals and books!

As a final hurrah for this stage of quarantine, here is the recipe for my magna opus 😂 I have titled it "The Mediterranean Portion of the Heavenly Banqueting Table."

This time I used a variety of links to what people rated the BEST of each element of the meal and have included them below: 

1) I grilled chicken kabobs using this recipe (pardon the title): https://damndelicious.net/2019/08/28/greek-chicken-kabobs/ . As a first time griller, it felt like a miracle to see my little speared baby kabobs grow up in to some of the best chicken ever haha. 

2) While the chicken was marinating, I then made this Tzatziki sauce (I usually don't like it, but this was AMAZING). I used this recipe https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/homemade-tzatziki-sauce/ ----Big tip here is that you really should squeeze the extra juice out of the cucumber and I substituted chili powder for paprika and voila...it was perfect! 

3) I also made a salad: Ice berg lettuce cut up into tiny pieces, cherry tomatoes, craisins, pasteurized feta cheese, and cucumbers (also great to have a little cucumber cut up on the side or other veggies to dip in the delicious sauce). I used balsamic vinaigrette for my dressing and it was perfecto.

4) Right before serving, I heated up some pita breads in a skillet so they would be warm for dipping in the sauce.


5) Finally, I served it all with a side of humus from Aldi.

Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. It was tasty. AND....I got a handshake from Camden 😂😍5.0.


On this lovely happy note, I wish you all the best in our (hopefully) final stretch of deep quarantine. So much love to and prayers for you all!!!