Chicken spiedini is very much a source of Kansas City pride. Those radio ads featuring Kansas City’s Garozzo’s Italian Restaurant which were always running during halftime of Chiefs games were an enormous source of fascination to me and my friends. The husky voice of Michael Garozzo telling his audience about the latest entrees and the more popular menu items felt utterly authentic and unique.

Garozzo’s chicken spiedini is the cornerstone of their menu. I know it is my favorite item! The following recipe is a close approximation of it.

The greatest challenge to this recipe is the preparation, but don’t let that intimidate you. The boneless, skinless chicken breasts will need to be pounded thin. This I find can be a chore. One of the things I do to help ease the noisy, messy, laborious hassle of pounding the breasts thin is to take a very sharp chef’s knife and split the chicken breasts through the middle, parallel to the cutting surface. That means were are slicing the breasts’ thickness into two equal halves. It can be slow because you don’t want to cut yourself but I can’t stand trying to pound a full breast into the thinness required for this recipe.

Ingredients:

4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1/3 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 T of chopped fresh parsley
2 t grated lemon zest
2 cloves of minced garlic
2 T olive oil
2 T butter

Preparation:

1. Place chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap, pound chicken gently with mallet until very thin (about 1/8 inch thick.) see instructions
2. On waxed paper, combine bread crumbs, cheese, parsley. lemon zest and garlic.
3. In shallow dish, combine olive oil and melted butter
4. Dip chicken into butter mixture, coat with crumb mixture.
5. Tightly roll up and secure with wooden toothpicks, if needed.
6. Cut into 1-inch-thick pieces, thread onto metal skewer
7. Remove wooden picks
8. Repeat with remaining chicken
9. To Grill; place skewers on lightly grilled gird over medium hot coals
10. Cover and grill for five minutes per side or until chicken is cooked through.

Enjoy!

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After much experimentation, planning and effort it is finally here: the Radiance Image Quilt by Glow Imagery!

Imagine having a quilt built with your wedding vows, the hanky you wept into when your mother first saw you in your dress, an image of the marriage license, the fabric from your veil and the wonderful images Glow Imagery created throughout your wedding day! How much would you adore that?

Now couples can have a completely custom designed image quilt featuring their favorite, most cherished images from their wedding day, designed into a handmade quilt. We can use all kinds of wonderful keepsakes from your wedding day to build a quilt that will make your heart sing every time you see it!

Here’s how it works: After your wedding day, you will sit down with Chris and his wife Genevieve Cummins, the quilt expert, and we will discuss some of your ideas and ours. As you discovered the first time you talked with Glow Imagery, we love to listen to your ideas and learn about the things that matter most to you! This is never more important than designing your Radiance Image Quilt because there are so many amazing things we can do to create a quilt that will be a priceless emotional statement about you, your friendships and family — all those wonderful things that are so important to your wedding day experience!

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One of our wedding clients from this past Fall received her wedding album recently and had this to say…

“Chris, we just got our album in the mail and it totally made me cry - in a good way. You did such a magical job of capturing our wedding and then laying out our story in a few simple pages. The spirit of both of us and what we wanted for, and got, that day is captured in your images. Thank you so much for documenting our day in such a wonderful way. We will always treasure the photos, but even more than that the class and support you provided on our wedding day.” Jennifer Gordon Erickson, married October 10, 2009.

Check out their wedding album:

The first page of Jennifer and Mike's album from their Kansas City wedding.

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Thank you Evan and Amanda, this Kansas City photographer will always be honored to have been a part of your day!

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Ashley and Cale are Jayhawks living in New York City. I first met the couple last year during one of their Kansas City wedding planning trips. For our initial consultation they brought along Ashley’s parents who shared a painful story about losing all but one of their wedding pictures when they trusted their wedding memories to a friend years ago. Their experience and loss made plain for them the importance of getting their daughter’s photography right with the one chance they have.

I knew it was going to be a terrific wedding when we first met. They chose to have the entire wedding at the Lenexa Conference Center. This location is not typically used for weddings, but leave it to a couple of architects like Cale and Ashley to know the true potential for a space like that.

It is an exquisite space, especially for a pair of new New Yorkers who wanted to make sure their wedding kept the rustic mood, tone and spirit of the Great Plains.

Enjoy the pics.

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Here’s a little snippet from a fun shoot done for my future sister-in-law. She wanted some professional pics but we managed some less formal poses too. As a photographer, I love finding ways to grow and make images more compelling even on the smallest of portrait projects.

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