Spiced chicken with fried rice

Hey! The picture turned out pretty good this time. This chicken was DELISH as was the fried rice. I honestly just did the fried rice because I have a ton of vegetables that are going to go bad soon....haha that is my secret; when vegetables are going bad, make fried rice! ;) Anyway, I got the chicken recipe from Jake, who got it from allrecipe.com. It is super flavorful and has a great kick to it. I'm pretty sure Cooper liked the smell of it too; he kept jumping up on me as the food was cooking. I will definitely be making it again...

Ingredients:

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/8 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon thyme

1/4 teaspoon dried parsley

2 chicken breasts


Instructions:

1. In a small bowl, mix salt, pepper, cayenne, paprika, garlic powder, thyme, and dried parsley.
2. Cut up chicken in small chunks.
3. Sprinkle spice mixture onto raw chicken.
4. Put some oil and butter in the pan and saute chicken until golden brown. (I learned on food network that using oil and butter somehow balances each other out temperature-wise...Ok I don't exactly remember the details, but it probably doesn't make that big of a difference)
5. Serve!

I won't give the instructions for the fried rice because I didn't measure anything. I basically threw cut up vegetables with rice and egg and added soy sauce. haha. But as I look back on my blog, I'm really glad I did it. I'm trying so many new recipes and actually get excited about writing in my blog. I hope I can keep this up. ;)

P.S. I know the periods up top look retarded (before Ingredients and Instructions) but blogspot will not let me put enters in between them and that was the only way to do it. Sorry readers! 1/22/10 - FYI, I totally fixed this problem by playing around with the "edit html" formatting. You can call me a programmer now.