Marinated Baked Chicken

Daylight savings is great!  However, I woke up at 6:30am since I'd had seven hours of sleep.  What to do?  Well, I'll create a blog post!

When Mr. and I were dating, (okay, that's really fun to say!!!  He's my Mr. now! :) love it! okay, back on topic) I was terrible at taking pictures and documenting things we did.  I just didn't think about it I guess. So now that we're married, I'm trying to be better about documenting our lives together.  We're using a notebook from one of the showers to write down memories that we may forget otherwise.  For example, I filled three pages with things from the wedding day like the fact "One Thing Remains" played on the radio when we were headed to breakfast (we used that song for our groomsmen & bridesmaids to walk down the aisle to).  They are things that even next year, we might not remember but were special to us that day.  We also wrote things down from the honeymoon.  On Friday, I was called "The 'Lady of the Night'" by one of the servers because he said my dress was so beautiful.  How awesome is that?!

In continuation of that, we've been writing down "firsts." The first time I was called "Mrs. G" by someone who wasn't at the wedding, our first time taking communion together, the first meal we had together, etc.  It's made me more aware of the little special moments.

With that in mind, I'm going to share with you the first homemade meal we had! 

Marinated Baked Chicken

Gather:

2 c. Italian Salad Dressing

2 c. soy sauce

6 bone-in chicken breast halves

1/8 t. onion salt

1/8 t. garlic salt

Make:

• In a measuring cup, combine salad dressing and soy sauce.  Pour 3/4 c. into a large resealable plastic bag; add chicken.  Seal the bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight, turning several times.  Refrigerate remaining marinade for basting
• Drain chicken, discarding marinade.  
• Place chicken, skin side up, on a rack in roasting pan.  Sprinkle with salts.
• Bake, uncovered at 350 for 45-60 min or until juices run clean (170<), brushing occasionally with marinade.

I made Rice Pilaf and crescent rolls to go with the chicken.  The chicken was really good!  It's a recipe my mom has used for as long as I can remember and I've made it once before.  However, I forgot that I normally bake it and I put it into a glass dish instead so the chicken turned out pretty soft.  I was not impressed at all with the rice pilaf so I doused it in soy sauce.  However, it is partially my fault as the recipe calls for brown rice and I had the minute version so it was a bit soggy.  The flavor wasn't all that great though so even if the rice was firmer I still won't make it again.

Edit: Turns out, my mom made up this recipe.  I'm now even more impressed with her amazing cooking skills.