Caribben Chicken Kebabs and the 30-day Blog Challenge

My friend Jessica started doing this "30-day Blog Challenge", where there is a list of things to enter on your blog each day. Not sure I can keep up with it, especially since this is really a food/cooking blog, and not an Abby blog, but figured I would tie in some of the things if possible.

Day 1 and day 2 are to put a picture up of yourself, describe your day, and then put a picture of something you ate today.

This is a picture of me on our wedding day, in case you couldn't tell. Ha! My mom and dad had arranged as a special treat for us to be taken from the church to the reception in all these old, cool vintage muscle cars!

As far as a day description, I will do yesterday. We woke up at 5am (on a Sunday!), and drove to Snow Summit to go snowboarding! The weather was good, and the snow was awesome. We rode hard from open until about noon, when it started to get busy, then hopped back in the car and drove home, just in time to watch the 2nd half of the football game. Our friends Javier and Danielle watched Guinness for us, and she had a very fun day playing. We came home, ordered some Chinese food, and were asleep by 8:45pm! It was great.

A picture of something I ate today? Well, I will conveniently use this opportunity to post on the blog what I am making for dinner tonight instead: Caribbean Chicken Kebabs!

This is a recipe I have been wanting to try from Coastal Living magazine. (PS, if you live by water, you want this magazine. It's awesome!)

Cheesy Factor (1 no cheese, 10 all cheese): zilch
Dummy Factor (1 easiest, 10 hardest): 2
Time Factor (1 shortest, 10 longest): 5 but only because of marinating

Caribbean Chicken Kebabs
1/3 cup orange juice
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tsp fresh minced ginger
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1.5 in pieces
1 sweet onion, cut into 1.5 in pieces
2 bell peppers (red or orange) cut into 1.5 in pieces
1 pineapple, cubed
1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes
1/2 cup butter
1.5 Tbls fresh lime juice
1.5 tsp cayenne pepper
1.5 tsp garlic salt

Combine first 4 ingredients in bowl, mix. Pour marinade, chicken and onions into plastic ziploc and put into refrigerator for 3-6 hours to marinate. Take out, discard marinade, and skewer onions and chicken along with remaining veggies. In small sauce pan, melt butter, and stir in lime, cayenne, and garlic salt. Use this as butter-baste for skewers. Grill skewers over medium heat 8-10 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through, turning and basting with Lime-Cayenne butter multiple times.

I am going to serve this with a wild rice mixture and a side salad. All while watching the Ducks win!