Making Mom Proud - Introducing Fabulous Eats.

I'm making MY mom proud.

Remember when I said I was going to start adding weekly features to my blog? 

Well this will be my first post in my weekly Fabulous Eats feature. 

In this feature I will be posting my recipes, favorite recipes from my mom, favorite restaurant eats, healthy eating, grocery shopping tips, hopefully featuring some of YOU and your favorite dishes as well as so much more about food and cooking!

Hope this weekly features makes your mouth water and encourages a little more home cooking and a lot less eating out.

My mom is an incredible cook.

Growing up there was one place I could ALWAYS find my mother. 

The Kitchen.

We were spoiled rotten with amazing, delicious dinners that my mom made for our family. She also catered weddings (including my wedding with help from her fabulous lady friends), corporate events as well as having tons of parties at our home that always drew crowds, for the food of course!

As the children grew, mom always let us be involved with cooking and we were all able to pick up a little of her talent.

When I got married, I wanted to make sure I showed Kevin what a good wife I was. 

This included doing ALL the laundry, keeping the house clean and of course cooking.

I had always heard a way to a man's heart is through a full belly.

Lucky for me, I knew I had this wife responsibility in the BAG (thanks mom).

With some of my mom's recipes I have been able to cook some awesome dinners for Kev. Just ask him, he'll tell you what a great cook I am.

This week I made my mom proud with a recipe I whipped up all on my own.

(I actually searched Pinterest and made my own recipe from ideas of a few others I saw)

I have had a jar of unopened artichoke hearts in my fridge for a few months and I have been dying to use them.

We are big CHICKEN eaters in the Ford household and so I figured I could make some type of chicken/artichoke dinner and that is just what I did. 

Lemon Chicken and Artichoke Hearts

1 1/2 tbs of Olive Oil.

1/2 cup White Onion.

2 tbs of Chopped Garlic.

1/2 pounds Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts. (bite sized)

3/4 cups of artichokes hearts (halved or quartered) (use canned or jarred).

1 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice.

1/3 cup water.

1 tsp lemon zest.

Directions:

Heat olive oil in a large pan on medium heat. Let it shimmer, add onion and garlic, season with salt and black pepper, and let it cook until golden. (Aprox: 4 minutes.)

Add chicken and cook until well browned on all sides. (Aprox: 5 minutes.)

Add artichoke hearts and cook until slightly broken down. (Aprox: 3 minutes.)

Add water, and juice and scrape the bottom of the pan to incorporate any browned bits. 

Cook until sauce is slightly reduced (Aprox: 5 minutes.)

Remove from heat, stir in lemon zest, and serve.

(I served mine over brown rice and added a dash of Soy Sauce)

When I cooked this dinner I only had a few small chicken tenderloins and it made just enough for Kevin and I.

Double this recipe and use more chicken depending on your liking of chicken ratio to the meal and number of people at the table.

If you give this recipe a try let me know! 

I hope you enjoy this dish as much as Kevin and I did.

Bon Appetit.