Sandra Lee Chicken Kabobs
reprinted with permission from Hoffman Media
We are excited to be partnering with Semi Homemade with Sandra Lee! We will be cooking one of Sandra’s recipes each month. Sandra Lee will provide us with a recipe and instructions. The Lazy Moms will lead you step by step through the recipe, feed our families, and report back to you, our readers.Sandra Lee has a passion for simple solutions that create dramatic results in all areas of home life. She is editor-in-chief of Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade magazine, a popular television host and internationally-acclaimed home and food expert who has revolutionized the way people think about homemade. With her trademark 70/30 Semi-Homemade® philosophy, which combines 70% ready-made products with 30% fresh and creative touches, Sandra is recognized as the foremost advocate to over-extended people. She created the platform to continually supply savory tactics that allows anyone to take 100% of the credit for something that looks, feels and tastes as if it were completely made from scratch.
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It’s our favorite time of the month again! Sandra Lee day! When we started our partnership with Sandra Lee Semi Homemade we knew, as Lazy Moms, that we would love it. We enjoy her show, we like her recipes, what’s not to love? What we didn’t anticipate is how much our kids would love it! LMA and I alternate cooking the recipes. We usually end up cooking them together, but we do alternate houses. That means that our families alternate who gets to eat the recipe. Each month my kids ask, “Is it our month for Sandra Lee?” There were cheers all around when I answered, “YES!”
This month I made Chicken Kabobs over Rice. The recipe is available at the bottom of this post as well as in our recipe section. I was very excited when I read the recipe. Why? Because it is cooked on the grill and that is Lazy Dad Philip’s territory. So that means that after doing the prep work I got to sit inside in the air conditioning while my dinner was being cooked. That’s this Lazy Mom’s idea of a good time! On to the prep work!
First I cubed the chicken into kabob size pieces. Does raw meat (especially chicken) gross anyone else out? As a child I would see my mom cooking dinner and the thought of the slimy meat would make me a little nauseous. I guess I haven’t grown out of that because it grosses me out every time. One of the joys of being the grown up in the house is that I have to deal with the raw chicken. I put my big girl panties on and dealt with it!
I then cut my apples and drained the pineapple. The recipe calls for wooden skewers however we have metal ones so I got to skip the step of soaking my wooden skewers. If you have wooden skewers, be sure to soak them in water or they will catch on fire on the grill! LDP then helped me thread the skewers.
I brushed the kabobs with vegetable oil and sent them outside with LDP along with a bowl of ranch dressing for flavoring.
While he was grilling the kabobs I worked on the rice inside. I added the pineapple juice that I had drained from the can to my water for the rice. That Sandra, always with the good ideas! By the time the rice was done, so were the kabobs and it was time to eat!
The end result was great! The kids really liked it. They don’t remember having grilled pineapple before and they loved how it tasted with the chicken. LDP and I agreed that it was a perfect summer dinner! Easy and light. You can print out the recipe below. It is also available in our recipe tab at the top of this page, along with all the other wonderful Sandra Lee recipes we have made! We hope you like it!
Don’t forget to submit your cooking tips and/or favorite recipes! We are giving away and Oster Fusion blender this week! It sells for $99 so you won’t want to miss your chance to win one for free!
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