Night Of Excellence

Night of Excellence was tonight. I was really nervous that, Night of Excellence would be really scary, and to be completely honest I have never done it before. Before my whole family kind of avoided it and to be honest I really don't know why, because in the end, although I messed up a bit, I'm glad I went. I made a new friend, she kind of reminds me of myself...oh yea except her talent is singing and I totally do not have a voice!(; 

For Night of Excellence I am doing this project, with making the food menu's and preparing it for 2 weeks, so tonight I made...Caprese Grilled Chicken! It was DIVINE! Definately a meal I would recommend and have again & again! We added pasta to this meal, with our pasta, we added a little Garlic and some Parmesan cheese. We also had side of steamed Broccoli. It was a delicious meal, that I think many of you should at least try. And again surprisingly wasn't that hard, which is always nice!

Ingredients

• 6 grilled boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 6 slices mozzarella cheese
• 6 slices tomato
• 6 large basil leaves

Instructions

1. Prepare chicken on the grill. As chicken is cooking, pour balsamic vinegar into sauce pan or skillet and cook until reduced by half. Add in butter and stir with a flat whisk until completely combined. Set aside.
2. Top chicken with mozzarella cheese, basil leaf, and then tomato slice.
3. Drizzle with balsamic reduction and serve warm.

For Night of Excellence, Kasey decided I should make something for some people to sample. So thank you to Pinterest, for both of these recipes, I made white cake, cupcake...with a TWIST! I added food coloring to these cupcakes and with a toothpick I twirled the colors into the cupcake mix, just before they were put into the oven. And also, they turned out great! I think they seemed a slight thicker at the top where food coloring was, but surprisingly I liked it!  & even if its just for fun, I think this would be a fun, creative thing to do! ....only if it was possible to have invisible frosting!! 

In the end...I thank Pinterest today!