ROXO easy chair and tray table

Summer is coming! How do I know? Well, the kids are played outside all day and toward sunset, we all took a walk into town while the grill warmed. When we got home, we warmed corn tortillas while beans bubbled and garlic-lime chicken got char-broiled. Afterwards, we let the kids run wild with leftover sparklers and had a beer. Ahhhh…blissful summertime.

Oh! And we were reminded of the IKEA Summer 2009 stuff! Fun, fun!

APPLARO rocking chair, sunbed, table, stool and garden trolley

And now….for a bit of hyperbole and a recipe:

Susan’s World Famous Garlic Lime Chicken

3-4 large cloves garlic
2 tablespoons sugar, honey or agave syrup
2 tsp kosher salt
2 tsp cracked black pepper
10-12 drops tabasco
4 oz fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon dijon mustard (not for flavor, but for emulsifying)
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
4 tablespoons cilantro chopped finely (you can sub part or whole parsley if you’re not a cilantro lover)
4 chicken breasts pounded to 1/2″ thickness or 3 pounds chicken tenders

Place garlic, sweetener, salt, pepper, tabasco in the bowl of a food processor and run until garlic is chopped.  Add a few teaspoons lime juice and run again until all garlic is finely chopped. Pour in the rest of the lime juice, drop in mustard and turn processor on. Through the chute, drizzle olive oil in a thin stream until all is incorporated. Toss in herbs and pulse once or twice to mix.

Marinate chicken in the refrigerator up to 4 hours, or for 20 minutes in a vacuum sealed container. If using chicken tenders, soak skewers for 1/2 hour prior to skewering meat.

Grill over medium heat until fully cooked -watch out for flames!  Enjoy with a nice Reisling, crisp salad and rice pilaf.  Or warm some corn or flour tortillas and serve with fresh salsa, sour cream, asiago, monterey jack and/or cheddar cheeses,  red onions or green onions and a good Mexican beer.  Any suggestions?