As back to school season sets in, baking up some of this oven barbecue chicken is a great, easy way to hang on to the flavors of summer!
One of the things I always find myself missing after summer has departed and the cold weather sets in and it seems no longer feasible to grill outside...is barbecue chicken. There is just something about the way it tastes that makes me wish it was still summer. Especially this year because our summer seemed to skip by us. We got some weird combination of spring and summer...sprimmer, if you will. And I didn't like it one bit. I feel jipped and forgotten by summer (though, in all fairness...it's like 98 degrees outside today, so perhaps there is hope yet).
In fact, one of the nights I tested this recipe out on family back in June was on a stormy summer night. I'm not kidding - the rain poured so hard that I thought we were going to get swept away and the wind and lightning was so bad that it took out our stop lights and power lines in town. My brother-in-law's car was hit by a falling tree branch that caught on fire! Thankfully he was unhurt, but his truck was another story - thank goodness for insurance. Needless to say, my brother didn't make it over to our house for dinner. But I sent him home a lemon bar I tested earlier that week - no barbecue chicken for him, though, poor guy.
I know it's the last week of August...but how? I was just in Hawaii celebrating my anniversary, wasn't I? To say that this was a busy summer would be an understatement (aren't they always?). But I guess that's why I'm aching to cram every last bit of summer memories into each day as much as I can. 
I feel really badly that we haven't taken the kids to our Farmer's Market yet this season. It's one of our favorite things to do with the kids, but this year it hasn't happened. It's been a busy season for us, as it has for a lot of people, and Josh and I are paying more attention to finding ways to slow down more and just simply rest. (Editor's Note: we've since been to the farmer's market with the kids twice! Yay!)
Happy Sunday, friends, I am coming to you this morning from my bed with a cup of coffee and clouds out my window. *sigh* Our summer weather has been less than...summery. Josh and I were remarking last night that we've only had one night where it was warm enough to sit outside on our back deck and chat after the kids went to sleep. It's either been too windy or cold.
You may have noticed (or maybe not!) that I was a little MIA last week. I was going to send an email out and explain to subscribers who don't follow me on 
Did I just read that right? Is it really July 29th?? Um, can someone please tell me where summer went? We haven't even begun to get our super hot days yet and we're already hitting the first week of August this week! Anyone else just floored by this?
We had a glorious week! The weather was beautiful. We got a few things done around the house, but not so much that we felt like we worked too hard, and we made time to relax a little and enjoy the sunshine. In fact, I'm writing this post 
Anytime somebody makes a claim that something is "the best" I'm sure we all just shake our heads a little and think, "The best. Really? What makes this the best (insert recipe here) compared to other recipes?
You know how you have those weeks that seem like a blur because so much happened? I had one of those weeks - the days at this point have just become one big gigantic blobby blur and it would seem that I had another week where I didn't do a lot of cooking - probably because it wasn't a normal week for us and we ended up eating a lot of "convenience" food, which isn't my favorite, but it is, well...convenient.