Reduced Carb Saucy Chicken Pieces

Reduced Carb Saucy Chicken Pieces

This recipe is remarkably flexible.  My favorite thing to do with this is chicken wings, but any pieces of chicken could be used.  Pork could also be used.

For this photograph, I used 5# of chicken wings, with the wing tips removed.  (I use the tips in my broth.) The recipe goes with that.

Reduced Carb Saucy Chicken Pieces

5# chicken wings, tips removed and saved for later use

Cooking oil spray

Spray a baking dish large enough for the chicken pieces to fit into without the sauce flowing over the edges.  Place the pieces of chicken into the baking dish.  Set aside.

In a small bowl combine the sauce ingredients*:

1/ cup apple cider vinegar

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

1/2 cup coconut sugar

Pour the sauce over the chicken.  It doesn't need to be uniform because the chicken will create more sauce and it will be turned 1/2 way through the cooking.  Cover the dish with a lid or aluminum foil and bake at 350F for an hour.  Remove the dish from the oven and turn the chicken over.  Replace the cover and bake for another hour.  20-30 minutes before the dish is to be served, remove the cover and continue baking until the chicken becomes golden brown.  Serve with plenty of napkins!

*Sauce variations --  The coconut sugar can be totally replaced with Stevia packets or partially.  In my experience coconut sugar doesn't affect blood sugar levels, especially in such small amounts.  However, many folks avoid it because it's a sugar.  The mustard can be omitted and coconut aminos or soy aminos, (ie, soy sauce) can be added in the same amount, or additionally.  Have fun and experiment.  I've never found a combination yet that hasn't worked.

You Won't Relent

Yesterday, I signed this song at church for worship.  "You Won't Relent," by Jesus Culture.  It takes me many days to prep properly for a performance, so I'd been working on it most of the week.  We had 2 new songs for the set yesterday, at least new to me ☺  this and one other, that honestly doesn't matter for the context of this post.

I'm going to share some very raw, personal stuff here.  I always try to be "HOT," as I shared with my friend Danielle yesterday.  Honest, Open and Transparent = HOT.

That song had me weeping each time I practiced it last week, and even more so when I performed it yesterday; however, I didn't fully grasp it until last night.

I awoke at 2 AM yesterday and never went back to sleep.  In the past this would have been just horrendous for me; however, I was fine yesterday.  Sure, I was tired, but I was FINE!  The Lord has brought me SO FAR in this past year!!  I told Danielle last night, that I feel like I've reverse-aged 15 years in this past year, thanks largely to the Lord using Plexus in my life!

Unfortunately, I've been a "slave to fear" much of my life!  I've really been struggling with this since we've moved back to OK, and we're "empty nesters."  The song, "Fear is a Liar," by Zack Williams, has been very powerful to me with at least trying to face the fears I could recognize at the time.  I'm so very thankful to my sweet husband for being brave enough to confront me, (gently and lovingly), about these fears.  It got me to thinking, and when I awoke in the middle of the night, as is often the case, I "Processed" with a couple of my friends via email and Messenger.

During that time of processing, I realized how deeply seated my fears really were.  I shouldn't say "my fears," because I DON'T OWN THEM!  The fears that the enemy has placed within my heart, would be more appropriate.  As a young child, I was nearly killed by the allergies I experienced, and I allowed that fear to grip me.  Last year, I had several small strokes, and again, I allowed the fear to grip my heart.  When we were houseparents, (I don't know if it was there before or not?), I became afraid of driving because I would wrestle with being able to stay awake on the road.  Thankfully, I could always tell when I was so sleepy as to become dangerous.  I never actually fell asleep to the point of narcolepsy, but I may have been slightly narcoleptic?  

I could go on, but that's not the point.  The point is that I'm like an onion, God is continuing to work on me with his relentless love!  I really didn't understand that concept fully until last night.  The song "You Won't Relent," states

You won't relent until you have it all,My heart is yours. 

I thought that I was fully surrendered to God!  I thought that everything I had was his!  I thought he was my all in all.  Last night I discovered otherwise.  

1 Corinthians 9:27 Living Bible (TLB)27 Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to. Otherwise I fear that after enlisting others for the race, I myself might be declared unfit and ordered to stand aside.

This verse has been meaning much more to me lately.  Years ago when I first encountered it, I thought Paul was some sort of masochist!  However, I'm beginning to understand what he means.  My husband and I have lived our lives in service to the Lord, and our children are following after us.  But the Lord is still uncovering areas in my life that are not holy to him.  He wants my all!

Have you given your all to Jesus?  Do you have areas in your life where fear is reigning?  I'm certain that if we're truly seeking God in our lives, that we're all a bit like "onions" -- parts of us are rotten and the entire thing LOOKS fine while others...  He's peeling us back to make us pure.  

If you need to visit about anything feel free to contact me via this forum.  I read everything usually within a few hours.  Many blessings my friends ❤