Thursday, March 13, 2008
Stuffed Chicken Breast
Well, we finally got around to trying the stuffed Chicken that Sarah Hare posted. It was WONDERFUL! I didn't have rice crispies so I ground up Life cereal and added my garlic seasoning. (the stuff I usually put on garlic toast) We used Pablano pepper instead of Jalepeno. It will definitely be on our repeat list. We served it with mixed vegetables and lemon rice. Mmm, Mmm, Good!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Food Tag...from Calista
7 things about me and food, unique, wierd, little known or whatever...
1. I have always liked making a big breakfast, or maybe I should say a hot, sit down and eat breakfast. The hardest thing for me when I started work was giving up making breakfast for my family. It's really a bummer that our breakfast break is 15 minutes and I usually have cold cereal or yogurt.
2. Like Calista, I like as many toppings or add ins or stuff in or on my food as I can get. There is no such thing as a plain carrot cake...it has coconut, pecans, pineapple and carrots in it. I just made a chocolate cake...it has pecans and special dark chocolate chips in it as well as a cream cheese layer. Salads...everything. Pizza..almost everything...no anchovies! Haystacks...loaded. Sundaes...YES!
3. I generally drink water. With meals, between meals... My big soda splurge is rootbeer floats. I prefer eating the fruit to drinking the fruit juice, but I do like milk with my breakfast. Water, water, water!
4. I have always gained a real sense of satisfaction from "homemade". Whether it's bread, cakes, dinners, whatever. I don't like using boxes and cans to prepare. I grind my wheat as I make my bread. White sauce is almost as easy as opening cream soups, tastes better and has more variations. Home canned is best too.
5. I have always been comfortable feeding people. I guess it's akin to "feeding = nurturing". I guess that's why I over feed and over eat. More is always better. Did you ever see someone assigned to bring a casserole for 10 to a pot luck or funeral, and have them bring enough for 4? Not gonna happen here!
6. I don't usually use recipes for casseroles and cooking dinner stuff...but I've tried to bake that way and it usually backfires! Don't get me wrong, I still try and occasionally it works, but there must be more science with "baking" than with "cooking"
7. I can't tell you how many times I have "purged" my cupboards, deciding I was going to eat healthy. It must be my way of torture. As soon as I get rid of hydrogenated, white, overprocessed, food...I decide I can't live without it. I'm not sure how that relates to my progressas a healthy well adjusted female, but somedays I could get rid of all the other food groups and live on chocolate!
I tag LaNita and Rachel!!
1. I have always liked making a big breakfast, or maybe I should say a hot, sit down and eat breakfast. The hardest thing for me when I started work was giving up making breakfast for my family. It's really a bummer that our breakfast break is 15 minutes and I usually have cold cereal or yogurt.
2. Like Calista, I like as many toppings or add ins or stuff in or on my food as I can get. There is no such thing as a plain carrot cake...it has coconut, pecans, pineapple and carrots in it. I just made a chocolate cake...it has pecans and special dark chocolate chips in it as well as a cream cheese layer. Salads...everything. Pizza..almost everything...no anchovies! Haystacks...loaded. Sundaes...YES!
3. I generally drink water. With meals, between meals... My big soda splurge is rootbeer floats. I prefer eating the fruit to drinking the fruit juice, but I do like milk with my breakfast. Water, water, water!
4. I have always gained a real sense of satisfaction from "homemade". Whether it's bread, cakes, dinners, whatever. I don't like using boxes and cans to prepare. I grind my wheat as I make my bread. White sauce is almost as easy as opening cream soups, tastes better and has more variations. Home canned is best too.
5. I have always been comfortable feeding people. I guess it's akin to "feeding = nurturing". I guess that's why I over feed and over eat. More is always better. Did you ever see someone assigned to bring a casserole for 10 to a pot luck or funeral, and have them bring enough for 4? Not gonna happen here!
6. I don't usually use recipes for casseroles and cooking dinner stuff...but I've tried to bake that way and it usually backfires! Don't get me wrong, I still try and occasionally it works, but there must be more science with "baking" than with "cooking"
7. I can't tell you how many times I have "purged" my cupboards, deciding I was going to eat healthy. It must be my way of torture. As soon as I get rid of hydrogenated, white, overprocessed, food...I decide I can't live without it. I'm not sure how that relates to my progressas a healthy well adjusted female, but somedays I could get rid of all the other food groups and live on chocolate!
I tag LaNita and Rachel!!
Monday, March 10, 2008
OK Here's the "Crab Crack"
Well, here's the decor of the room..fish nets and sea shells on all the walls, and various nautical stuff on the stage. Bill and I bought tickets to this event through his work just for a night out. It was a lot of fun, there's a buffett set up down the middle of the room with baked potato, cole slaw, shrimp, cocktail sauce and butter, and dessert...cherry cobbler. When you finish dishing up all the buffett items you want, they bring a bucket of crab to your table and everyone shares from the same bucket.
Here we are in our bibs, before we got messy. Let me tell you now, a Crab Crack is NOT a tidy date! You don't know your table mates very well before you start, but if your are all digging out the crab meat and you fling a little...well let's just say that you are all family when you finish. We had a very good time, the food was great. I did decide I liked the shrimp better than the crab though. I had to work pretty hard for the crab.
Here we are in our bibs, before we got messy. Let me tell you now, a Crab Crack is NOT a tidy date! You don't know your table mates very well before you start, but if your are all digging out the crab meat and you fling a little...well let's just say that you are all family when you finish. We had a very good time, the food was great. I did decide I liked the shrimp better than the crab though. I had to work pretty hard for the crab.
Sorry, I'm having trouble posting a picture...
Well I keep getting a server error, so I guess I'll abandon this for now.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Tagged by LaNita
5 of my favorite things:
1. Family...all...parents, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews...I guess if I had to prioritize I'd be in trouble, everyone would be second to grandchildren! (But you have to have some of the others to get the grandchildren!)
2. Sewing...not really the kind I do at work all day, but creative sewing, quilts, blessing outfits, costumes.
3. The beautiful world around me...I love the seasons, the mountains, flowers, cloud formations, sunsets...I especially love that so many of you do the pic of the day and include nature...it's awesome
4. My down pillow...especially since I forgot it last night when I went to the hotel to visit my sisters! With a down pillow I can form it just the way I want, it can be molded, pushed, fluffed, or whatever, and it's perfect for me.
5. Food..I don't know if I can be specific! Comfort food...today it was carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
I don't know who is left to tag, but if you've been tagged and haven't done it yet, consider yourself tagged!
1. Family...all...parents, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews...I guess if I had to prioritize I'd be in trouble, everyone would be second to grandchildren! (But you have to have some of the others to get the grandchildren!)
2. Sewing...not really the kind I do at work all day, but creative sewing, quilts, blessing outfits, costumes.
3. The beautiful world around me...I love the seasons, the mountains, flowers, cloud formations, sunsets...I especially love that so many of you do the pic of the day and include nature...it's awesome
4. My down pillow...especially since I forgot it last night when I went to the hotel to visit my sisters! With a down pillow I can form it just the way I want, it can be molded, pushed, fluffed, or whatever, and it's perfect for me.
5. Food..I don't know if I can be specific! Comfort food...today it was carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
I don't know who is left to tag, but if you've been tagged and haven't done it yet, consider yourself tagged!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Leap Day Reaction??
Long week, longer day! I actually came home from work and curled up on the loveseat and went to sleep to the news droning in the background. Any way Bill asked me what was for dinner...now I ask you who can ask about dinner at a time like this? I told him Wes had some leftover pizza in the freezer...have at. He ate some pizza and then stetched out in his recliner for a nap. This is what he looked like when he woke up! This has happened one other time, we don't know what he's allergic to but it is an allergic reaction. It would be more fun to say it was my reaction to him waking me from a nap, but, at least this time, not so.
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