Poisonous Dinner!

I don't know that I have ever posted anything about food before, but I just had the most amazing dinner and I had to share it with all of you.  If anyone is following me on Pinterest, you may have noticed I recently pinned a recipe for Jalapeño Popper Chicken.  I made that tonight, and it was glorious.  However, what really sent it over the edge was the Lemon-Chive Roasted Vegetables I made to go with it.  I have been craving vegetables like crazy lately and my favorite way to make them is to roast them at *400-*425 with olive oil, sea salt, and garlic 'til they are mostly caramelized.  I do this with any vegetable I roast.  Most recently it has been asparagus and green beans, yummmmmm.

Now, I feel I must disclose that I am not an exact measurer when it comes to cooking, sometimes not even when baking (I know that's so bad), but I have to say I have a %90 success rate in the kitchen so I don't worry too much.  This does make it quite difficult, however, for people who want recipes.  I'm telling you all this, because I tweaked these recipes a bit.  For the chicken, I used the recipe as a guideline.  I think I used all the same ingredients (maybe not exact amounts), except for the topping.  I did not have pork rinds, but I did have potato chips so I used those instead, and since the chips were full of fat and salt anyway, I didn't use any of the other ingredients for the topping.  This recipe was supposed to be low-carb, so I just totally ruined it, but I'm not worried about carbs.

The vegetables I used were yukon potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, and cauliflower. And again, I didn't measure, I just filled up that jelly roll pan with as much as it could hold, and roasted away.  However, because it was more crowded, it didn't caramelize as much as I usually like it to.  I didn't measure with the lemon and chives either.  I used freeze dried chives, and one whole lemon.  The sweetness of the sweet potato is the thing that makes this whole ensemble sing…in your mouth…like an entire opera being performed in there!

The links to the recipes are at the top of this post if you are interested.  If you try either of these recipes, I would love to hear how they turned out.  Let me know in the comment section below!