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So two of my fellow foodie bloggers, Alicat from Something So Clever and Sara from i like to cook have developed an awesome idea for all of us that love to cook and collect cookbooks, the Weekend Cookbook Challenge. I don’t have nearly as many cookbook as some of these ladies do, but I confess I don’t use mine very much. I am much more into finding recipes online and sticking them in my gigantic, overflowing binder. Yet I do enjoying flipping through my few cookbooks for ideas and inspiration while the hubby is watching sports.

So this week’s challenge is to pull out our oldest cookbook, either oldest by copyright date or the one we have had the longest and make something new out of it. I have once again turned to my cookbook bible, the All New Good Housekeeping Cookbook from 1991. It’s not really new anymore, it isn’t even printed anymore, yet I do love all 831 pages of it.

I was actually going to buy this cookbook for one of my room mates in college for her birthday. She wasn’t the best cook and I figured this book covered just about every basic recipe you would ever want. It covers every type of meat, fruit, bread, cheese, appetizer, drink and jam you could imagine and then some. I was flipping through it in the store and just could not bare to give it to her. She wouldn’t appreciate such a gem, so I kept it for myself

I have all sorts of post it notes and other recipes sticking out of it. The pages for foccacia and lemon poppyseed pound cake are so sticky and stained and wrinkled from the many times I have made these recipes. It is my all time go to book for recipes.

So with that being said I had a hard time choosing a recipe to make. I am trying to make more unique dinner and not so many desserts so that narrowed it down to about 10 chapters. I bought a rotisserie chicken this morning but it was plain so it needed to be spruced up. I found the recipe for Apricot Glazed Chicken and figured this simple glaze would be perfect over the chicken. I am in love with anything with apricots though funny enough I have only had them dried or in preserves, maybe next summer. I will leave you with the recipe in it’s entirety yet I only made the glaze then slathered it over the chicken while it reheated at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes. The glaze was awesome and easy and even the hubby liked it!

Apricot Glazed Chicken

1/3 cup apricot preserves
1 tablespoon chili sauce
2 teaspoons dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 large bone in chicken breasts

1. Preheat over to 425 degrees. In small bowl combine first 4 ingredients. Arrange chicken in 13×9 inch baking dish and brush with glaze.

2. Bake, brushing occasionally with glaze, until chicken is tender and juices run clear, about 25-30 minutes.

PS- Only 338 calories and 2 grams of fat per serving! Eat up!

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