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Strangely, this is the second Guy Fieri recipe I’m trying this week…and I’ve only ever tried one other recipe of his before in the past.

This was ok. I’m usually more of a white meat girl, but used the chicken thighs this time for a change. This is one of those meals that’s great to make when you don’t know what to make and you just toss in a bunch of things you already have lying around your kitchen. A good “standby” dish. We just paired it with a spinach salad. Overall, a fairly healthy meal (minus the dark meat). Oh, and he called for Queso Fresco. Well, I’m not supposed to eat that kind of cheese while I’m pregnant (unfortunately because it’s so good!). So, I used Ricotta Salata instead. This is the first time I’ve tried this cheese. After years of watching Giada De Laurentis, I figured it was about time. I have to say, I wasn’t very impressed with it. Not sure if I’d use it again…

So, ingredients I used are chicken thighs, small red potatoes, red onion, green and red bell peppers, jalepeno pepper, beer, salt, pepper…I think that’s it?

I’m going to try and start blogging about the yummy dishes we make at home. Yesterday I made an asian noodle salad (inspired by a Guy Fieri recipe) and baked salmon.

The salad consisted of soba noodles (made of buckwheat), napa cabbage, red bell peppers, carrots, celery, cilantro, soy sauce, olive oil, hoisin, sriracha, sesame oil, lemon juice, slivered almonds, sesame seeds, and rice wine vinegar. Really good. I thought salmon would go well with this kind of dish, as it usually fits well with asian inspired meals. All I did was put a little salt, pepper, and olive oil on the salmon and bake it in the oven at 375 for about 25 minutes. The entire dish came together really well…AND we have noodle salad left over to eat with our hot dogs (organic turkey) tonight.

I won’t blog about tonight’s dinner because honestly how much can you say about hot dogs? They’ll be on whole wheat buns and be topped with veggie chili and slaw I picked up from Cincy’s today.