Recipes I'm going to try when I have more time

Cooking tonight, potstickers for the Superbowl party at work tomorrow. Next week I'm going to try:

Pepper jelly: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/jalapeno_pepper_jelly/
Garlic Polenta: http://www.health.com/health/recipe/0,,50400000109413,00.html



Note to self: Remember to post the [very basic] polenta recipe.

Herbed Chicken Breast

Not wanting to go out and get food, I defrosted a chicken breast, cubed it (apparently you're supposed to cook it first so it doesn't dry out, but I figure it'll marinate and cook faster this way. I'm HUNGRY, and if I'm that hungry it will taste good whether its dry or not), and marinated it. I'm planning to pan-fry it later. I will update with how it turned out after ward.


Marinade:
- Some olive oil
- Some honey
- Some lemon juice
- Some mustard (plain yellow)
- Salt
- Black Pepper
- Celery seed
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Thyme


Update: It turned out very well. I fried with an onion and an apple, both chopped into pieces more or less the same size as the chicken. The rosemary and the mustard were the two flavors that really worked well of each other. Next time I would use 2-3 onions, or 1 larger one. I used normal yellow onions.

Banana Nut Muffins (With Vegan modifications)

As a need-to-get-rid-of-overripe-bananas recipe, I got this recipe from my mom for banana nut muffins. Had to make it as a vegan recipe once. It comes out well in both cases.

Original Recipe:
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1.5 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
0.5 tsp baking powder
1 cup oil
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
4 mashed bananas
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 c chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 F
Use muffin cups or grease a muffin tin
 Mix the dry ingredients together
Mix the wet ingredients together
Mix the wet and the dry ingredients together
Spoon into the muffin cup
Cook for ~25 minutes. They should be done when a toothpick comes out clean.


I prefer the muffins without chocolate chips. I've also used walnuts, pecans, and almonds in various incarnations of this recipe to good effect. I also would modify it to only use 1.5 cups sugar. These muffins as written are very sweet.

Vegan modification: use ~3 extra bananas instead of the eggs, and leave out some of the sugar. The ones I made came out very well but very sweet using two cups of sugar.