Roasted pineapple with honey ginger chicken

I took this photo a couple of years ago.  Yesterday my husband, son and I went for a long walk in the park.  We saw so many butterflies and such lovely flowers I couldn't help but remember this shot.
   When it was time to decide what to make for dinner I was still in a bright mood, I had some pineapple in the fridge and always my ginger and soy. I had gone to Whole Foods over the weekend and splurged on some organic chicken. hmm, how do I put it all together in to a dinner that matches the sunshiny day.
  Ah ha! my memory banks went into overdrive as I tried to think of something yummy.  Then it came to me, and I was excited to give it a try.
I adapted this recipe from the book "Supermarket Vegan" I don't own the book, I checked it out from the library last year.   I don't own many cookbooks because I can never follow a recipe anyway, but I do love to read them to store up ideas, so I borrow them from the library.  I love the library.
   I had to do this by memory, and I used chicken, so no vegan dinner for us, but I have made something similar with tofu and it was good.
   
 The results were simply sweet and yummy.

Here's what I did

Roasted Pineapple
3 cups or so of cubed fresh pineapple
1 medium red bell pepper, sliced
1/2 a large red onion sliced thin
1T ish of toasted sesame oil
1T sunflower oil
palm full of light brown sugar..enough to sprinkle over all the fruit and onion when on tray
juice of a lime
salt and pepper to taste

arrange pineapple, red pepper and onion onto a large cookie sheet.  I lined with foil. 
drizzle with sesame and sunflower oil, salt, pepper and brown sugar. toss and spread out evenly

bake at 375 for about 30 minutes or until it's nice and brown.  squeeze with lime juice and place in a serving bowl. 
  a sprinkle of sweetened coconut is what the original recipe called for, I had none.  Add it if you have it.

 about an hour before I started the pineapple I mixed up a quick marinade for my chicken breasts. I put the chicken in for the last 20 minutes of cooking time with the pineapple.

Honey soy marinated chicken breasts

1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup tamari or soy sauce
juice of one big lime
1 tsp fine diced fresh ginger
4 skinless boneless chicken breasts

mix the first 4 ingredients in a big baggie.  put the chicken in and place in the fridge for an hour.

Like I stated above, I put the chicken in the oven in a baking dish.  I think grilling them would be fantastic if the grill is ready to go.

I served the combo over white basmati rice.

Making an easy dinner, that is tasty enough for your child to love, yet not a child like food is a good thing to find.  I think this is one of those dinners. 
  Please give it a try, put on the tiki lights, blast some hula music, heck maybe even have a rum drink.  It could turn in to a fun evening.  :-)

Aloha