Bacon Wrapped Honey Mustard Chicken Strips

It's been a while since we've had a Family Game Night, but tonight was the night!  The whole Lentini family came together for some belated Christmas cheer and wishes for a great new year to come.  With Family Game Night comes the "what can I make that I've never made before?" -- my new friend Pinterest brought me to this FABULOUS recipe.  So simple, so easy, and let's be honest -- they had me at bacon.  These were pop-in-your-mouth, can't-stop-eating GOOD!

• 6-8 boneless, skinless chicken breast 
• 2 packages of bacon 
• ¾ cup honey 
• 8 tsp. coarse mustard 
• 4 Tbsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice

DIRECTIONS

1. Cut the chicken breasts in strips.
   (I got about 5 or 6 strips from each chicken breast) 
2. Wrap each chicken piece with a strip of bacon, leaving a little piece of chicken poking out of each side. 
3. Prepare a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and spray lightly with cooking spray.
4. Place each bacon-wrapped chicken strip on the cookie sheet.
   (A suggestion that I thought of with the second batch today was to also put a rack on the cookie sheet and place the strips on the rack so that the bacon grease would fall to the cookie sheet and the chicken strips would not be sitting in the fat.  In the first batch, it didn't hurt the end product other than to make the bacon less crispy on the flip side.)
5. Preheat the oven to 425F.
    
6. Prepare the honey glaze by adding the honey, coarse mustard and lemon juice in a bowl and whisk until combined. 
7. Brush the bacon-wrapped chicken strips with half the honey mustard marinade. 
8. Bake for 10-15 minutes until the bacon is crispy.
   (The dry-run I did last night of only a couple strips, they took about 13 minutes; however when I made the larger batch today, it took closer to 20 minutes with a full cookie sheet) 
9. Remove from oven and turn over each bacon-wrapped chicken strip. 
10. Brush each chicken strip with the remaining honey mustard marinade and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes, until bacon is crispy, keeping an eye as the bacon can cook quickly.

Adapted from Kayotic Kitchen blog