what's for dinner? chicken pita pockets!

Last weeks The Design Files Guest Blogger Dawn Tan got me back in the kitchen and cooking properly with her cute and delicious illustrations. This year has kept me outta the kitchen with how crazy busy we've been and we've easily eaten out or on the run 2 or 3 nights a week all year. Not great. I'd like to cook more and better so I thought a good way to keep me accountable to that is introducing a food element into this blog. Maybe?!

I want it to be easy and low fuss so instead of stressing about the quality of images, I've decided that I'm just going to point and shoot! No cropping, no filters, no adjusting colour levels and no apologizing for the lighting- it gets dark when I actually start cooking!

So here is what I cooked tonight. I made this a lot last summer as it's quick, easy, tasty and refreshing.

Chicken Pita Pockets!

First we turn the oven onto 200 degrees. Then we make the marinade/sauce for the chicken. I just kinda slosh it all in but here are the rough measurements. Technical hey?!

• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of honey [I used leatherwood and 1 tbs was a bit too strong!]
• juice of 1/2 a lemon
• Sprinkling of origano
• 2 big cloves of garlic
• Slop of olive oil
  

Close up of all those ingredients. Smells yum!

Pop a couple of skinless chicken breast in and let them absorb the goodness while you prepare the following steps.

Dice up half a cucumber.

See if this is one of the many veggies [or is it a fruit?!] that Ferdinand will eat! My little vegetarian ate a couple of bits and sucked on a couple more.

Mix some tarziki dip in with the cucumber until evenly coated. Cover and put in the fridge.

Place the chicken on a tray with baking paper with half the sauce/marinade and bake for about 30 minutes. After 20 minutes, turn the chicken and add the rest of the sauce.

Halve a couple of pita pockets and peal apart and heat in the oven for 4 minutes.

Ta-da! Sure, they don't look amazing but they sure are very tasty! And quite easy really.
Bon Appétit!