It's official, I'm a wife!

I normally don't do much cooking. Ever since c and I wed, I have only cooked a few meals. I have never really had the time with school and work. I barely had time to ever sleep let alone cook! So this summer, one of my goals was to be a better wife and actually put some effort into cooking my man dinner! I've cooked a few things for him already since we've been out here, but last night I put some REAL effort into it...CILANTRO LIME CHICKEN with SWEET POTATO FRIES! yummy. I modified and combined a few recipes online, hoping it would work and actually taste good and then my friend Tia sent me a yummy recipe for the fries. It was a very tasty meal, if I do say so myself! I'm sure most of you girlies out there take this kind of time for meals all the time, but I never do, so that's why I'm rambling on about it so much. But enough talk....
this is a little before action, I threw some yummy ingredients + the chicken and marinated for about 3 hours! wooh!

this is the after shot, oh so delicious!

Here's the recipe if you folks want to try it out for yourself...

{CILANTRO LIME CHICKEN}

2 chicken breast
1 tsp of seasoning salt
1 tsp of ground black pepper
1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper (you can use more if you want it spicier, but be careful!)
1/4 cup of lime juice
1/4 cup of olive oil (i used vegetable oil)
2 cloves garlic minced
1/2 cup chipped fresh cilantro (I didn't really measure an amount I just chopped up however much I wanted, I LOVE cilantro!)

Preheat oven to 350
Defrost chicken (microwave for about 10 min is what I did)

Combine seasoning salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper and mix together in a bowl. Rub that seasoning all over that chicken. Get it nice and covered. Then put in a zip lock bag.

Mix lime juice, olive oil, garlic, and cilantro together then add to the zip lock bag.

Marinade those suckers. At least 2 hours, I did for about 3.

After it's done marinading, bake em! I baked them for about 30 minutes and I poured the marinade over the chicken and let them bake together...they'd already been together for 3 hours, why separate them now!

{SWEET POTATO FRIES}
via tia :)

2 sweet taters (i used yams...i think, i can't tell the difference)
1 tbs olive oil (i used vegetable oil)
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 425

Wash your taters, leave skin on, then cut them up so they look like fries. Toss the taters in a bowl with the oil, chili powder, garlic powder and salt.

On a baking sheet spread fries in a single layer and roast, stirring every 10 minutes until brown and tender. (about 30/35 minutes)

ENJOY!

p.s. if you are salivating, don't be ashamed :)