New food.

Does everybody have those 20ish recipes that seem to get stuck on repeat for the better part of a decade?
I’m in a cooking funk.
I can’t eat another bite of Apricot Chicken, Meatloaf, or Pork Chops with cous cous.
I refuse.
So I’ve been scouring recipe blogs and asking friends for recommendations.
We’ve had a couple successes. (link away!)

• Creamy Chicken Taquitos (mmmm.)
• Cashew Sweet and Sour Pork (so good…minus half the vinegar and the snow peas.)
• Cajun Chicken Pasta (drool.)
• Sticky Mango Chicken Skewers (Light, healthy and tasty)
• BBQ Pulled Pork with Memphis Style Coleslaw (So good with the coleslaw in the sandwich. Who knew?)
• Natchitoches Meat Pies (like a Philly Cheesesteak in a pocket.)

Not that success equals our children consuming enough of it to sustain life…because that would be asking too much, mind you. Success is Mark and I enjoying our dinner and nobody else vomiting at the table. If they made it all the way to the bathroom, it’s highly likely I’ll be cooking it up again in the future. It’s all about lowering your expectations and looking for the silver lining through the vomit and over the cries of, “I just can’t put it in my mouth! It smells so….so….wrong!”
We also had some definite duds…

• Black Bean & Pineapple Brown Rice (way too healthy. Made me want to poke my eye out and did actually cause vomiting at the table.)
• Homemade Corndogs (way too greasy.)
• BBQ Chicken legs.

So…here’s what I’d like to know. What do you love to cook? Do you have a recipe that you make when you want to impress dinner guests or that your kids go crazy for? I’m dying to know! Please share a link or email me a recipe or anything! I promise I’ll give it a try.
Cheers!