Baked Chicken Fingers with Sweet & Sour Dipping Sauce

If you’re looking for an easy, quick and healthy weeknight meal, this recipe fits the bill. Baked Chicken Fingers with Sweet & Sour Dipping Sauce is so simple that you can even enlist kids to help with the preparation. Save time in the evening by marinating the chicken in the morning before heading off to work. Then, while the chicken is baking, you can make the sweet & sour dipping sauce.

These chicken fingers pair well with a Winter Chopped Salad (pictured above) – both dishes have a tangy dijon flavor that complement each other nicely.

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Baked Chicken Fingers with Sweet & Sour Dipping Sauce

Cream Cheese Muffins

If you’re anything like me, you have a big pile (or file folder or drawer or box) of recipes that you’ve collected from newspapers, magazines, blogs, websites, tv shows, etc. I actually have two 12-tab box-like filing systems in place, and once I put a recipe in, I usually forget all about it until I’m looking for something else. This weekend, I was trying to organize (and weed out) the recipe files. I came across a recipe I had printed out and saved that Jennifer McHenry from Just Baking posted for Cream Cheese Muffins. She, like myself, loves all things cream cheese and her husband created this delicious, decadent muffin recipe just for her. It’s a dense, moist muffin with a creamy, cream cheese center and a crunchy, nutty crumble top. I’ve changed a few things here and there and beefed up the directions a bit, but for the most part, this is based on Jennifer’s original recipe and it’s worth treating yourself. Now if only I could get my husband to create some recipes for me...

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Cream Cheese Muffins

Winter Chopped Salad

After the indulgence of the holiday season, too many sweets and filling meals make us crave fruits and veggies. But, healthy doesn’t have to mean boring or dull. This winter chopped salad is full of crisp, fresh lettuce, healthy nuts, cranberries and goat cheese with a tangy and sweet dressing. The recipe is from Diane Rossen Worthington’s Seriously Simple Holidays – a wonderful book not just for the holidays; it’s filled with simple, easy and delicious recipes for fall and winter.

And I have to call attention to the “bear claw” salad tossers in the photo. I first saw them at our friend Diana’s home a couple years ago and have never been able to get them out of my head. And while Christmas shopping, I found them at the Chopping Block and had to have them. So, yes, I bought myself another Christmas present while I should have been shopping for everyone else. But aren’t they cute!

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Winter Chopped Salad