My wife and I would like to share our “Spicy Chicken Breast” recipe with everyone, so you can enjoy the amazing flavors and endless dinner possibilities that will come from this one simple recipe. So let’s get right to it!
Here are the ingredients you will need.
4 Large Chicken Breast
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Stubbs Moppin Sauce (12oz bottle)
Beef Broth
Salt & Pepper (and any other spices you love)
Now, I need to mention that you will be cooking this delicious meal in the oven for one hour and thirty minutes, so give yourself some lead time to make sure dinner is ready when you are ready to eat, okay.
First, you want to turn the oven to 325 degrees. Now let’s go ahead and clean the fat of the chicken breast, if needed, and butterfly any thicker breast into thinner pieces or cut them into two pieces if you want. Medium to small pieces is fine for this meal and they will cook just how we want them to. Now add your salt and pepper (to taste) and any other spices you enjoy. Remember, this is “spicy” chicken, so you may want to add some additional ingredients to make it a little hotter. Here are the spices my wife and I use in our dish which gives it a nice spicy flavor, but its not hot for wimps like me that can’t handle real spicy food.
Lawrey’s (about 6 to 7 shakes)
Garlic Sea Salt (grinder-3 or 4 turns)
Peppercorn (grinder 8 to 10 turns)
Black Pepper (grinder 8 to 10 turns)
Ground White Pepper (large pinch)
Mrs. Dash Southwest Chipotle (6 good shakes)
— next 4 ingredients 1/2 tsp each —
Ground Cayenne
Ground Paprika
Ground Chorizo
Ground New Mexico Chili Pepper
Now before you mix your spices and sprinkle them all over the chicken, put a little olive oil on the chicken so the spices stick like glue. Next we want to prep our cooking dish. For the amount of chicken you have, you want to use one large pan or two mediums pans. First, add about 1/3 cup olive oil to the bottom of the pan and 1/2 cup of beef broth. This will ensure the chicken doesn’t stick and stays nice and moist during cooking. Now, put your chicken breast in the pan nice and even (touching each other is fine) and cover generously with 1/2 a bottle of Stubbs moppin sauce. It should look something like this:
Spicy Chicken Breast
Next, put the chicken in the oven (middle rack) and set a time for 1 and 1/2 hours. Now, just sit back, enjoy a cold drink and wait for the magic to happen. For some amazing reason, that I am truly grateful for, the Stubbs sauce breaks down during the cooking process and mixes with the oil and broth to create this amazing spicy oil-juice that you can save and use on other dishes such as “Chef-Shea’s Spicy Chicken Green Chili Cheese Enchiladas”, which I will share with you another time, I promise!
(Sneak Peak)
Spicy Chicken Green Chili Cheese Enchiladas
Once you finally hear the timer go “ding”, it is time to sample some of the best chicken breast you will ever taste!
Spicy Chichen Breast 325 degrees - 1 1/2 hours
You can serve them any way you want to, maybe with a side of veggies and mashed potatoes and a side salad, or maximize your dish and make some tasty spicy tacos or spicy chicken cheese enchiladas. The chicken is fork tender now and full of great flavor. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and don’t forget to save the juices in the pan for later use.
Happy Eats Everyone!
And to all of our visitors that are renting one of the premier Homes, Townhomes or Condos from Arizona Lodging Experts, we hope you too can enjoy some wonderful home cooked meals and margaritas during your stay “thanks to great blogs like these”!
Opening day for Spring Training is right around the corner, March 4th 2010 and I’m starting to get excited. Honestly I can hardly wait for it. I love going to the downtown Scottsdale stadium to watch the Cubs and the Giants slug it out. By the time we hit the 7th inning stretch were all going to be singing “Take me out the ball game” while chomping down on hot dogs, drinking a cold beverage and soaking in the sunshine in the awesome 70-degree temperatures.
I know for a fact many of Arizona Lodging Experts guest have come here specifically for the baseball games so I have a free tip for all of you! At the Giants home games Scottsdale’s downtown office will be distributing a Spring Training Coupon Book. Be on the lookout for it as the book has a lot of worthwhile coupons in it.
My wife and I took this photo one afternoon while driving by the Praying Monk at Echo Canyon. The Praying Monk is a unique rock formation that looks like a monk kneeling to pray (top-right side). Here is a clear outlined view, just in case you don’t see it.
When you hike the main trail at Camelback Mountain/Echo Canyon, you will pass right by the Monk himself, so don’t be nervous, okay. Just continue to enjoy your hike and as you climb higher and higher on the mountain and begin to see the spectacular views before your very eyes. Because the trails are open from sun up to sun down, the top of Camelback Mountain is the ideal place to be at sunrise and sunset, if you are someone who enjoys memorable moments such as these, which many of us do, right?! Make sure to always bring plenty of water on your hikes, even if you think it’s not hot outside, and if you have room, grab you cameras too. You will be glad you did.
If you ever need premier lodging so you can come and enjoy the local sites and sounds here in beautiful, sunny Arizona, then don’t hesitate to call Spencer and Scott at Arizona Lodging Experts. With over 15 years experience and a great variety of lodging to choose from, Arizona Lodging Experts is the best of the best!
Oh, and the weather will be in the mid to upper 70’s for the next few weeks while we move toward Spring where it will stay in the low 80’s for a spell. Some come and enjoy this amazing weather everyone.
At 1500 Hours the clouds broke open long enough to allow the sun to shine down and create a beautiful full arch rainbow. See photo below.
The metro Phoenix area has been covered in clouds today with rain coming and going pretty much all day. To people in Seattle and similar climates this may sound depressing but to us Phoenicians it’s a wonderful thing. The desert is in full bloom and all the desert shrubs have turned green and the air outside smells so fresh and crisp. At one point today the clouds broke long enough to let some sun in to create this wonderful rainbow.
To all of our clients that came here to rent a vacation home with the intention of sunning by the pool and hitting the putt putt’s out the on greens we apologize for the rain.
Today I am sitting here under a catus enjoying the real deal holyfield margarita, whipped up from scratch by yours truly. I promised in a past blog that I would share my recipe with the world at large. So with no further delay, as promised, for your eyes only, the real deal holyfield margarita.
First of all you’re going to need some supplies, and by supplies I mean some good tequila, some fresh limes, fresh oranges, simple syrup, crushed ice and most of important of all a good blender…-not! No Blender folks, this isn’t a restaurant version of the margarita, served up frozen so as to deaden your taste buds, thus getting you to drink more margaritas and spend more money. We wont be pulling the wool over your eyes here folks. This recipe is for discriminating taste, for the person that enjoys the fine taste of tequila. Were not looking to mask the flavor of the tequila, but enhance it. A good margarita, like any good drink should have a beginning, middle and an end.
For this recipe you are going to need a Boston Shaker. Most liquor stores will carry them, if not try searching the Internet.
For my recipe I’m using a modest $30 bottle of Corralejo tequila.
Add 1.5 oz of tequila
1.0 oz simple syrup (Simple syrup is 2 parts sugar to 1 part water. Heat up water, add sugar, and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and allow to cool, bottle and place in fridge)
1.5 oz mixed fresh lime and fresh orange juice (equal parts)
Take your serving glass and place crushed ice inside to get your glass nice and frosty.
Fill Boston shaker half full of crushed ice.
Add in all of your ingredients.
Put the shaker together and give it a good shaking.
I will shake my margarita for no less then 100 shakes. When your done your boston shaker should be frosty.
Strain and pour your mixed drink into your serving glass.
Now if this isn’t the best margarita you’ve ever had let me know. I look forward to your responses.
I hope that some of our guest at Arizona Lodging Experts, when staying in one of our luxury vacation homes will take the time to try this recipe out while having a pool party. Iguarantee it will be a smash! And remember if you need a bartender to mix the drinks for you just let me know, I look quite smashing in a Speedo.
Every February Arizona is host to the Arabian Horse Show at Westworld of Scottsdale. I’ve never taken the time personally to go see what the show is all about, even though many of the people involved in the show are clients of Arizona Lodging Experts as we have a few homes and condos to that are near the event.
Last night I found this cool video on YouTube and I think it captures the spirit of the show. It is of the freestyle liberty finals.
Next year I can guarantee you that I will be there with my trusty video camera and the Nikon D70s to take some awesome photos.
If they called Tombstone, Arizona, ”The town too tough to die”, then what would you call Jerome, Arizona? Maybe “The town too smart to quit”? I think that fits for now, especially since Jerome has suffered 2 seperate fires, one in 1894 and 1899, and rebuilt each time to become the historic town it is today. Jerome Arizona is simply a wonderful place to visit on a day trip with family and friends, or maybe you want to stay longer, if you have more time available in your schedule. There is so much to explore in this old mining town, and a lot of history to absorb, so pace yourself.
(P.S. Please forgive the old photos. We will get news ones soon, I promise)
Jerome, Historic Mining Camp Est. 1876
Old House near Jerome
Jerome seems to have everything a person could want or need. You have several local bars that you can visit like the Spirit Room and the Jerome Brewery. Here is the Spirit Room, and again, forgive the crappy picture, but I wanted you to see what it looks like. Oh, buy the way, if you do stop by the Spirit Room and happen to find a charming old man playing the washboard with the band, then that would most likely be my father, Rick. He is fun to watch when he plays!
The Spirit Room
I wasn’t able to find a photo of the Jerome Brewery, which is all the more reason to go soon and take some new pictures, right? I agree! In the meantime, here are a few other my wife and I have taken in the past. We hope you enjoy them.
Old Truck in Mountain Wall
Jerome Winery
Local Artist Shop
Stairs by my Papas home
If you decide to eat something during your trip to Jerome, you have made the right decision. There are some local eateries that will delight you in many, many ways, with delicious homemade meals and home brews or regular spirits, which are available with every meal. Sodas for the children please, and for the designated drivers! You don’t want to drink and drive on these windy hills folks. When it is time to feed your hunger, you can stop by the Flat Iron Cafe and have a cup of coffee and a nice hot breakfast. Or swing by the Palace-Haunted Hamburger and have the delicious hamburgers they are so famous for. Our personal favorite is the Jerome Brewery where they serve a artichoke bruschetta and a 3 cheese pizza that are just unbelievable. Just talking about it made me hungry right now.
I would recommend that you take a scenic drive to Jerome the next chance you get, and really see for yourselves how much fun it is to walk around the streets of this old mining town and visit all the shops and local eateries. You will want to come back again and again, I promise.
Don’t forget to contact Spencer and Scott at Arizona Lodging Experts to reserve a beautiful home, townhome or condo in Arizona and enjoy some of this amazing weather we have here and all ther local attractions like Jerome. It is just a short hour and a half drive from Phoenix to Jerome.
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Living in Arizona for over 35 years now has given me a strong desire to learn more about our old west history. I am fascinated by the items were used back in the 1800’s and 1900’s, and how many of these items have withstood the test of time and are still around today. On a day trip my wife and I took to Goldfield Ghost Town, I found a few “surviving items” from the wild, wild west, so I took some photos to take home with me.
The first photo I have is a photo of 2 old pieces of luggage.
I find myself easily impressed by items such as these that have traveled the open dusty trail, exposed to the everyday elements, but still somehow managed to survive for over 200 years.
The next photo is just a old rocking chair.
Old Rocking Chair
If you look close, you will notice that this chair is held together by a few wires and a couple of nails. It is a simple design, made by hand - not in a warehouse, and it’s still with us to this very day. It is funny to think that this chair is three times my age and probably in better shape that I am. (haha)
The last photo I wanted to share with you shows some old saloon doors, but what caught my attention was the old Civil War Confederate Flag on the back wall.
"Gunfighters Only"
It looks like it has seen better days, you know what I mean, and you just have to wonder, “How old is the flag itself and has it actually been in a War”? I wish I knew the answer, but it sure is fun to think about anyway.
Now I hope to be able to travel with my lovely wife and visit all the other great historic cities in Arizona like Tombstone, Bisbee, Jerome, Prescott and Flagstaff. Think of the history. Think of the heritage. Think of the photos we could take. Wish us luck!
During our visit to Tlaquepaque in January, my wife and I found this cool little statue called “The Kiss”, created by Kim Kori.
"The Kiss"
The Kiss by Kim Kori
It would seem that this little kissing frog has become a dry “wishing well” for many tourist, as you can see by the coins that lay in his hand and at his feet. My wife loves everything frog-related, so finding this statue during our visit was a nice surprise. Once we returned to Phoenix, we took a digital photo of our new froggy pal and we had it printed and framed for our apartment. My wife just loves it!
“This just goes to show that you can never tell when you with encounter something fun and memorable that will stay with you forever”.
Every Saturday The Pavilions in Scottsdale Arizona host a free car show. Over the years the show has really grown in size. I remember back when it was one row of muscle cars and a few imports scattered here and there. Now the place is packed with cars. The idea has really caught on and today I was able to check out hundreds of cherry muscle cars, rat rods, Ferrari’s, Lamborghini’s and even this 2 million dollar Bugatti sporting a V16, quad turbo engine capable of producing speeds up to 253mph and a stop to 60 mph time frame of less then 2.5 seconds.
Even though these imported sports cars a blast to drive I find myself drawn to the classic muscle cars of the 60’s. I saw this sweet Oldsmobile 442, and a few cherry 68 Camaro’s and my all time favorite car of all time hands down, The 65 GTO! I was fortunate enough to find two of them today! Both 65 Goats were excellent examples of the car. The first was a pearl white hard top and it was beautiful. The one that stole my heart though was the all black convertible. (you can see it in the video footage at the bottom of the page) I would love to take a road trip across the country in the 65 GTO.
Well at least this time I had remembered to bring along the trusty Nikon D70s and a Sony video camera. I’m no professional photographer and I would hardly even call myself an amateur so take it easy on the criticism ok!
Follow this next link to watch a slideshow of some nice cars.
I also took this video footage that I compiled together. In it you will see the dragster on display, a nice Cobra, the awesome black GTO convertible, The Bugatti, two Lamborghini’s and a ton more cool cars.
By February 2011 the Diamondback’s and the Rockies will have a spring training facility right next to the Pavilions. The car show is really going to take off then.
Arizona Lodging Experts has in their inventory two fully furnished vacation homes within ½ mile of the car show and of the new Diamondbacks and Rockies Spring Training Facility. We also manage dozens more homes within a 10-15 minute drive to the area. You can check out the two closest homes we have here. The Scottsdale Links Estate SLE87 and SLE38.
sporting a V16, quad turbo engine capable of producing speeds up to 253mph and a stop to 60 mph time frame of less then 2.5 seconds.
and a few cherry 68 Camaro’s and my all time favorite car of all time hands down, The 65 GTO! I was fortunate enough to find two of them today! Both 65 Goats were excellent examples of the car. The first was a pearl white hard top and it was beautiful. The one that stole my heart though was the all black convertible. (you can see it in the video footage at the bottom of the page) I would love to take a road trip across the country in the 65 GTO. 