Chicken Pesto Pasta

This beautiful green dish is the Chicken Pesto Pasta...

This beautiful dish is the Chicken that Mike grilled on the BBQ...

This beautiful green dish is the Pesto Pasta...

There are no pictures of just the pesto, since Mike felt that it didn't photograph well by itself.  I guess some food just isn't photogenic.

Kim was trying to use up some more spinach, and she also had the basil plant which her mom had given her.  The plant was pretty much on its last legs at this time.  According to Mike, the basil plant is in the path of the sprinklers, and should be getting water when the sprinklers run.  I think the poor plant disagrees, since it was pretty beige when I saw it.  We were out of town for a week.  When we got back, Mike said that he would water the plant when he was in town, so Kim thought Mike was going to water the plant.  For some reason, Mike thought Kim was going to water the plant.  The result is that no one was watering that poor basil plant...

It was actually pretty easy to make this recipe.  Kim put all of the ingredients (she used pecans instead of almonds, since that is what she had) into the Vitamix and turned it on.  She was able to make probably about two cups of sauce, which is enough to coat quite a bit of pasta.

 Spinach Basil Pesto Recipe.

Peach Oatmeal Muffins

I had some white peaches in the freezer from when our white peach tree was in season, and I had more white peaches than I could eat.  I figured that I would just use them for smoothies.  I was looking online and found a recipe for Peach Oatmeal Muffins.

It looked simple enough, and I figured that I could use the white peaches from the freezer.  As it turns out, Mike volunteered to make it.  Although the recipe calls for making this "by hand", Mike of course used his KitchenAid mixer.

I don't know why the recipe told him to make so much cinnamon sugar mix.  He tried to use as much cinnamon sugar recipe as possible on the muffins, so they came out a little sweet.  He still had quite a bit left over.

They were quite delicious and easy to make.  Mike even compared it to peach cobbler!  I think this recipe could be adapted to use pretty much any fruit.

When I printed this recipe out, it came out on two pages.  At first Mike asked me why I needed white sugar.  I told him to check the second page.  He also forgot to put the pecans in there because he didn't see it.