Hawaiian Chicken

Ingredients: 1 pineapple, 2 chicken breasts, 2 tbs spicy honey BBQ sauce
Recipe: Heat grill or grill pan on med-hi. While pre-heating, slice pineapple into rings. Sear pineapple for grill marks and turn down heat. Cook only a few minutes per side. Then turn up heat to med-hi. Coat chicken breasts with BBQ sauce. Then, sear chicken for grill marks and turn down for cooking, about 7 minutes per side, depending on thickness of chicken. Plate chicken, add sauce if needed, then pineapple ring. Serve with a side salad with ranch dressing.

I really just made this up. I've had similar items at restaurants and I know that "Hawaiian Chicken" usually involves chicken, pineapple and BBQ sauce. I had those three things so this is what did with them.

I put cartoons on for the kiddos. The baby is napping. Olivia notices I am cutting up a pineapple. "Pineapple! I want some!"

I have just finished cutting around the pineapple and slicing and was now trying to cut the core out to make those perfect circles. Impossible. There are several chunks of pineapple off to the side of the cutting board. "How do you ask nicely?" I reply to her.

"May I please have some pineapple?"

"Me too! Me too!" Juliana shouts as she comes into the kitchen.

"Okay, here's some for both of you to share."

While that occupies them, I preheat the grill, finish the slices, and I cut my chicken through the middle (like a butterfly cut, but all the way through) so it isn't as thick, and I get two breasts out of one.

I am in the middle of grilling when my husband comes home. He asks, "What are we having for dinner?"

"Um, I think I'm going to call it Hawaiian Chicken," I tell him.

"Uh-oh. Are you experimenting again?"

"Well, yes. But it''s going to be good."

He just gives me a hug and kiss on the cheek and look, as if to say, "We'll see."

After I make the girls some nuggets to go with their pineapple and plate the "Hawaiian Chicken" with a side salad of lettuce, tomatoes and ranch, it's time to eat.

I cut my chicken and pineapple and mix it all together to make a "Hawaiian Chicken Salad" and it is delicious. I ask my husband what the thinks.

"It's really good honey," he says.

Four empty dinner plates tells me dinner was a success!