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Honey Soy Drumsticks

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soy honey chicken

 

Baked chicken is an easy and healthy choice for dinner, but can often get boring and dull. I started playing around with this recipe when I decided to cut back on carbs for our weeknight dinners. It has become one of my favorite dishes because I love how crispy the chicken gets from baking at a high temperature on a wire rack. Chicken drumsticks are also inexpensive so you don’t end up blowing through your food budget. Most of the dish’s flavor comes from the honey soy sauce so you can use chicken breasts or thighs if you aren’t a fan of drumsticks.

Serve these apple honey drumsticks with sauteed kale or pumpkin mac and cheese for your next dinner and you will be set!  Continue reading →

Oven-Steamed Fish with Shitake, Soy Sauce, Ginger, and Scallions

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This is my take on the classic Chinese-style steamed fish with soy sauce. Since I don’t have a proper steamer and prefer to cook fish in the oven, I decided to use the old parchment paper/foil trick! Similar to my baked salmon recipe, I “steam” this dish by wrapping everything in foil packets and baking it in the oven. It’s a quick and healthy way to cook fish, while leaving for a fast and easy cleanup! (Simply throw away the foil and you’re done! No need to wash the pan since it was lined with foil.) I love how all the juices stay in the foil packets, keeping the fish moist. Best of all, you have a wonderful sauce to drizzle over a side of jasmine rice or soba noodles. Yummmm!  Continue reading →