Happy Independence Day everyone! I hope everyone gets to enjoy a fun and safe long weekend with family and friends. Today I’m sharing a very filling recipe that was one of my favorites growing up, pistachio chicken. It’s pretty simple to make and doesn’t require a lot of ingredients. Because the chicken is coated in fatty pistachios, one piece is very filling, so a little chicken goes a long way.

Ingredients:

-          Chicken breast strips

-          Shelled pistachios (TJ’s sells them already shelled in raw or roasted and salted, both work for this recipe depending on your saltiness level preference)

-          1-2 eggs

Instructions:

-          Pre-set the oven to 350 ^oF

-          Put pistachios in a plastic bag, cover with a towel and hit with a hammer or meat tenderizer to crush. Leave some chunks and allow for some of it to become pretty fine so it sticks to the chicken. Once they’re crushed, place in a bowl.

-          Put some olive oil in a frying pan on medium to med-high heat

-          Dip chicken strip into egg and then in the bowl of crushed pistachios to coat the strip

-          Fry the chicken strips on both sizes so that the outside of the chicken is cooked, and then place fried chicken strip in a glass baking dish. Add any pistachios left over in the frying pan to the top of the chicken strips in the baking dish.

-          Cover the baking dish with foil to keep in moist and bake for 20-40 minutes depending on the thickness of the chicken strips.

-          Serve with a vegetable like grilled asparagus and enjoy!

WOD 07.04.2013

“Deck of Cards”

Each team will be provided with deck of cards. Each suit is assigned a movement and the number on the card is the number of the specified movement that each person will perform, with aces being “1” and face cards being “10.”

Hearts:

A – wall balls

B –  air squats

Diamonds:

A – burpees

B –  push-ups

Clubs:

A – v-ups

B –  sit-ups

Spades:

A – c2b pull ups

B –  pull ups