Does anyone else feel like summer is simply flying by? As in if I’m not careful it’ll be fall, and there will still be so many things left on my summer list! Luckily we were able to do all sorts of fantastic summer things during our vacation, and I pretty much crossed off most of my summer bucket list items. (Still haven’t had a campfire though.) Taking a vacation in the summer seems like a no brainer, but for the last several years we’ve been having trouble getting days off. We’d schedule some vacation time, but when the days would actually arrive, things were always too busy at work, and our vacation would get cancelled.
But this summer we decided things were going to be different. We planned ahead, and booked days off around existing holidays so that we could take 3 trips this year, without even using up all our vacation days. And then we got extra lucky: we had a week booked off for vacation, and a few days after we left we heard that we could take an additional week off, because things were slow at work. (I still can’t even believe the luck of getting an extra week off!) Off course all good things come to an end so to speak, and things have been crazy since we got back with Tyler working weird shifts from day into night and night into day. Neither one of us seems to know the day of the week anymore, because after a certain number of back to back shifts everything starts blurring together.
One good thing about being home again is that I’m in full scale recipe testing mode. Combine that with my garden produce coming in full force, Farmer’s Market inspiration, and you’ve got my favorite time of year!
One of the beauties of summer is the abundance of fresh herbs. So it seems only natural to make chimichurri sauce, (which is basically straight up chopped herbs) as much as possible. I love to do a mix of herbs when making chimichurri, and my new favorite combination is: cilantro + basil + parsley = best chimichurri ever!
The chicken for these grilled skewers gets marinated in some of the chimichurri, and the rest gets served alongside the finished skewers.
Tips for Leftovers: We often have so many leftovers during the process of recipe testing. There’s only 2 of us, and so that’s a lot of chicken skewers to eat after testing this recipe twice! I always try and figure out all sorts of ways to morph our leftovers into something fun, so I think you’ll definitely enjoy watching our everyday eats over on snapchat! No reviews
