Mom's B-Day

Hey Everyone,

To celebrate Mom’s birthday, we would like to have an adults only, sibling & partner dinner on Sunday, September 4^th at 5:00 PM at the condo.  Mom would like to have the following menu:

• Spaghetti
• Garlic Bread
• Salad

I will make the spaghetti sauce, but we will need some volunteers for the following:

• Appetizers - Tricia, ???
• Pasta - Tricia
• Garlic Bread -  Sandy
• Green Salad ingredients (I will bring our HUGE metal bowl and we can assemble the salad on site):
• Lettuce - Rachel & Tricia
• Tomatoes -  Rachel
• Cucumbers -  Rachel 
• Croutons - JD
• Salad Dressings - Ranch (Rachel), other (Clark)
• Desserts - Adam (Mom's Favorite Peach Pie), ???

Alma will help Dad set up for the dinner.

Like with the Mom’s Day celebration, I will post this on my blog (yes, driving a ton of traffic).  Please let me know what you would like to bring by either texting me or posting a comment on the blog.
Thanks everyone!

Summertime Fare

Every week I grill a few pounds of chicken breasts for use during the week.  Lately, we have been getting tired of the same old stuff: chicken enchiladas, fajitas, chicken tortilla, etc. so I have been looking for tasty ways to use leftover grilled chicken.  I ran across a recipe the other day, adapted it a little to make it my way and came up with the following...

Grilled Chicken Breast with Raviolis and Citrus Cream Sauce

INGREDIENTS
Grilled chicken - ~1 breast per person
1 Stick butter - melted
3 Sprigs Rosemary - finely chopped
1 Tbsp. flour
1/2 Lemon - Juice and zest of ~1/4 of lemon
1/2 c White wine
1/2 c Heavy cream
Fresh ground pepper to taste.
1 pkg. fresh Cheese Raviolis

DIRECTIONS
In a medium saucepan, melt butter over medium heat, then add chopped rosemary.
Stir in flour just to make sure sauce will slightly thicken.
Add in lemon juice, zest, pepper and white wine.  Reduce slightly ~2 min. then add cream.
Gently simmer until the sauce is thickened and heated through stirring often to make sure the sauce doesn't stick to the bottom of the saucepan.

Cook raviolis per package and serve on a platter/large pasta bowl.

Slice chicken to desired thickness, and spread neatly over raviolis, then pour sauce over chicken and raviolis.  Garnish with thinly sliced lemon pieces and a couple of sprigs of rosemary.

Enjoy