Before I get on to dinner, I decided to throw a quick whole wheat pizza together for me and Tony. My side was a few pieces of pepperoni and red pepper, his was pepperoni and sautéed mushrooms. We split a bottle of diet root beer – perfect lunch for two! I am tweaking this whole wheat crust and I’ll post the recipe when I get it perfect! 😀
After lunch Tony and I hit the store – I touch everything while he does deli duty – the deli takes the longest! On the way home from the store, I yelled “I forgot to pick up the Greek Pork Kabobs!” My store had the already put together, marinated and skewered pork and while I had it on my menu side, I forgot to add it to my ingredients to get.
So on to Plan B! I did a quick google search and settled on this recipe. I halved the amount of olive oil though! See how many skewers are on this plate? I made TWICE this much! Seriously, I must have an underlying fear that people are going to show up at my door! Never fear though, I plan on making Tony chicken salad for his lunches, so this won’t go to waste.
On the side I made rosemary red potatoes – they cooked in foil on the grill while the chicken cooked, then I just dab the tiniest bit of butter before going to the table. Hannah took this picture 😀
I was on Tastespotting last week, and found this recipe from there – Goat cheese wrapped almonds and dates then wrapped in bacon. The combination of flavors – salty, sweet and crispy and chewy, I knew I was going to make these for our picnic Girls Night Out tomorrow night.
All I did was take a pinch of goat cheese, wrapped it over the roasted salted almond, then sandwich it in between a sliced pitted date, then wrapped in bacon. While a little tedious, it went together pretty quickly.
Broil until bacon is crisp. I realized after the first side cooked that I needed to elevate the apps so they weren’t bathing in the bacon grease, and then it worked perfectly – it took about 10 minutes total for the bacon to become really crisp. You can see the goat cheese peeking out! Hannah took this picture too – thanks Hannah – you may have to become my food stylist! 😀
I’ve made so many messes in the kitchen today, but I need to make my blueberry lime muffins for tomorrow night – AND we have the Season Finale of Food Network Star – my vote is for Melissa! See you in the morning – um, pretty sure I am going to have an egg sammie on my homemade jalapeno bagel tomorrow! 😀
I want Melissa too!!!
I’m so glad Melissa won too!!
Your food looks awesome! I’ve had bacon wrapped dates, just not with goat cheese and an almond, How deluxe is that. I hope the weather turns out for your girls night out!
Pizza and root beer go so good together! Perfect Sunday lunch!
i have got to make my own bagels already 🙂
those goat cheese/almond/bacon things look amazing!
I knew she would win! I think t hat she really does fill a need on Food Network.
That chicken looks so delicious! I’ll take your leftovers!
Wow, that is an amazing photo with the melting butter on the potatoes 🙂 and i’m loving those almond-goat cheese-stuffed dates wrapped in bacon… foodgasm 🙂
You should host dinner parties! Love the little bacon-wrapped dates. Delish.
Also your bagels and eggs in a cloud look divine!
Those little bacon wraps look like they are to-die-for! I’ve GOT to make those ASAP!
Seriously it all looks so good. I want to eat at your house!
PS – I added you to my blogroll…hope that is okay 🙂
Of course – thanks! 😀
Those potatoes look fantastic! I hope you enjoy your bagel this morning 🙂
Bacon wrapped anything is good with me 🙂 I love bacon wrapped cheese stuffed dates. The perfect combination of all the flavours.