Honey & Pineapple Oven Baked Chicken

It's always hard to bake a whole chicken and keep it from becoming tasteless and dry. This recipe is my secret to soft, fall off the bone baked chicken.

Honey & Pineapple Oven Baked Chicken

What you need:

- whole chicken

- 1 can of pineapple cubes

- 1/8 cup honey

- minced garlic (1 tablespoon)

- basil

- seasoning (black pepper, garlic salt, salt, crushed red pepper flakes, poultry seasoning)

1. Preheat the oven to 475F

2. Place whole chicken (breast side down) on a casserole dish lined with aluminum foil

3. Pour pineapple juice from can liberally over the whole chicken and onto casserole dish

4. Cover chicken with spices, seasoning and minced garlic

5. Stuff the chicken with pineapple cubes. Spread the remaining pineapple cubes and juice all around the chicken

6. Cover with aluminum foil

7. Cook at 475F for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, remove foil covering and cook at 450F for an additional 45 minutes

8. When it's done cooking, use pineapple juice all around casserole dish and spoon over whole chicken

9. Drizzle honey all over the top of chicken

* Outcome is sweet and super soft chicken. The pineapple cubes inside the chicken and in the outside are what contribute to this.

* You can add a side of sweet chili Asian sauce or sriracha if you want

(Uncooked)

(Cooked) - Darker spots are from areas that had more black pepper and basil - not burned areas

Lime Pepper Chicken with Garlic Fried Rice

I typically cook for myself or me and my bf. Because of this, I can't use all of the meat and vegetables I have for one dish. When I buy chicken breast or chicken tenders, I cook half and save the other half for another dish. In this case, I used the first half of the chicken tenders in the Glass Noodles with Chicken & Veggies dish. The second half I placed in a zip lock bag and marinated overnight.

Lime Pepper Chicken

1. Marinate the chicken with 2-3 fresh squeezed lime, salt, black pepper and a few bay leaves. Mix well, seal and leave in the fridge overnight.

2. Next day - Line a glass casserole dish with aluminum foil.

3. Place marinated lime and pepper chicken tenders on the foil. Sprinkle a pinch of salt and more black pepper on each tender. Add places of lime around the casserole dish.

4. Bake in oven on 375F for about 45 minutes. If you have less pieces, you can cook it in under 45 minutes.

5. After it's done baking, place of plate and have a side bowl of soy sauce and garlic to add as needed.

Garlic Fried Rice

* I usually cook this when the rice is a day old and hard from being in the fridge

1. Before you cook the rice in the pan, break it apart as much as you can

2. Heat oil in pan. Add lots of minced garlic and cook until it browns a little

3. Add the rice and season with garlic salt, black pepper and salt.

4. Add in 2 scrambled eggs and cook

5. Cook and mix thoroughly

Baked Salmon with Honey Teriyaki Sauce

Baked Salmon is probably one of the easiest things to cook. I love baked salmon not only because it's easy but it tastes good and you can do other things while it's baking in the oven!

Baked Salmon

1. Line a casserole dish with aluminum foil and place fresh salmon filet in the casserole dish

2. Add basic spices: black pepper, garlic salt, (sea salt if you like), minced garlic

3. Cover salmon in aluminum foil

4. Bake in the oven for 45 min - 1 hour at 350F. Remove foil cover at around 30 minutes

Honey Teriyaki Sauce - Easy to make!

1. In a small saucer, pour teriyaki sauce (available at all grocery stores, esp. Asian markets)

2. Once hot, stir in honey, minced garlic and cilantro (fresh flavor)

3. Stir in saucer until it boils and set aside

* Once the salmon is done cooking, remove it from the oven and pour your sauce over it. That's it! =)