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Creamy Lemon & Dill Chicken Thighs

We've been home from our  summer vacation  now for two weeks and slowly getting back into the groove of a normal routine.  Usually, when we return from a trip, I get real motivated to "clean out" stuff around the house because I seem to see things with a new eye from being gone so long. This time, it was cleaning out the freezer. Who doesn't need to clean out their freezer, I mean, really?!  Needless to say, I found a package of meat I didn't even know what it was until I thawed it out.  I thought they were ham hocks for  ham hocks and lima beans .  (I didn't mark the package - a big no-no when it comes to freezer food.)  But when I thawed it out, they were actually chicken thighs.  Okay.  Lots of things I can make with those so last night for dinner we had this recipe from Hannah Freeze, RD, who has discontinued her business but who's diet plan I still follow.  I've  made this recipe a lot but realized I never posted it, so here it goes.  I like it be

Summer Vacation

It’s September now and summer is soon ending but I'm a little more accepting of that since we just had our highlight of summer; our summer vacation.  Once again we visited Nick & family in Spain and then went on a Mediterranean cruise together.  It was a great way to spend quality time together and being the grandparents that we are, Nick & Sachiyo got a lot of alone-time together while we played with the grandkids.  The kids hung out with us A LOT.  At there house in Spain, we mostly swam in their pool playing all kinds of pool games and silliness, something they never seemed to get tired of.   I also packed some chapter books along with us since the grandkids are now 6- and 8-years old so I tried to remember what Nick and Lauren loved for me to read to them at that age and remembered their favorite  Indian in the Cupboard  and  My Father's Dragon .  I got the three-book series of my Father's Dragon and it turned out to be exactly the reading level of the 8-year ol