Saturday, February 26, 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Recipes for My Top 5

If your anything like me, it usually takes least three tries to get a meal right and I do not enjoy cleaning up the mess of cooking.
So in saying that, here are some wonderfully easy meal ideas.

Eggs Benedict with asparagus
So so easy and so so yummy!
Asparagus with hollandaise sauce is amazing! Josh didn't really care for asparagus until he ate it with the hollandaise. I also love eggs Benedict with honey whole wheat english muffins.
English muffin- toasted
1-2 slices Canadian bacon or ham-heated
Eggs- poached
Hollandaise seasoning package. (48-98cents) 
steam asparagus
Creamy Chicken Enchiladas
My cousin Molly let me in on the secret of chicken enchiladas... they are fast and easy to make, who would have thought.
I make these about once a week. (I use corn tortillas)
Pre-heat oven to 350
COMBINE IN FRYING PAN: 1 tbsp butter,
1/2 onion, chopped
and 1/2 can green chili's
COMBINE:
1 pkg. cream cheese
cooked, chopped chicken breast or tenderloin
onion, chili mixture
1 tbsp milk.
IN SEPARATE BOWL COMBINE:
1 can cream a chicken soup
1 cup milk
remaining chili's

Roll cream cheese mixture into tortillas and place in backing pan.
Pour soup mixture over tortillas
place in oven for 20 minutes
remove from oven and add cheese. (I add a lot)
return to oven until cheese is melted.
Done 


Chicken BBQ Pizza
Again, fast and easy.
Jiffy pizza crust, 48cents at Winco
 (add more water than calls for, I use a square sheet because I don't own a round one.)
Baby Rays BBQ sauce
Grilled chicken
  Chopped onions, fine or thick
Cheese, as much as desired
Slice fresh tomato's on top, I like to add them after the pizza is cooked

Hamburger and Rice
I kinda consider this a "poor mans meal". However, this is very very tasty. Believe it or not but it has brown sugar in it as well.
 This is very delicious when served with corn as a side.


Nacho Chicken Casserole
This is by far the easiest. Chicken, sour cream, salsa, corn chips, and cheese.
All I can say is try it! You will eat it often.
I do not have exact measurements
Preheat oven to 350
Place chicken on cookie sheet, cut slices in the chicken, do not cut all the way through
Add sour cream, I put enough to cover the entire chicken breast
Add salsa, (enough to cover most of the sour cream)
Place in oven until chicken is done
Remove pan and add crushed chips and cheese, as much as desired
(for thicker pieces of chicken breast, be generous when adding the toppings)
Remove from oven when cheese is done.


Saturday, February 19, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011

Messes are fun!

She's either laughing or thinking about the mess she has to clean up now. 


Lucy had such a good time with Josh's package he got in the mail.


                            and of course she is such a good little girl she cleaned up her mess.


yes, we got her a broom and dust pan for Christmas. She uses it quite a bit:)



Thursday, February 17, 2011

Happy Valentines and Happy Birthday Joshua!

We decided to venture out of our usual price range, and go to
The Melting Pot.
This was a celebration of a few occasions; Valentines Day, Josh's birthday, and my birthday. 
 It was a fantastic experience, cozy atmosphere,
and amazing creme brulee!
Our company was pretty fantastic as well:)

I'm loving how well our outfits compliment each other 

Josh's poor eyebrow really stands out in this picture, but of course he's still lookin fine as ever!


Jeff and Maria, it was such a good time. I'm glad we were able to share that "once in a life time" experience with the two of you



Trying to get a sweet picture of the flames


obviously he is more interested in the food than his wife... I totally understand


Dessert... AMAZING!


Part two of Josh's birthday


 We had a little celebration the next day with cake and candles. Lucy absolutely loved the candles. She told us to "stop it" when we were trying to take them out of the cake. She didn't even want to eat the cake.

This year I made Josh a "better than sex" cake. I usually get him an ice cream cake, mostly because I love them:) However, I decided, since it is HIS birthday and all, I would make him something he might enjoy a little more than an ice cream cake.

I think Josh had a pretty fun birthday, except for
having to turn 27.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Lucys quotes of the day...

"good girl daddy"
"I'm leaving!"
"oh fetch"
"go away!"
"ew, tooted... scuse me"
"SIT DOWN MOMMY/DADDY", when she wants us to play with her
"candy okay", as she's shaking her head
and a new one for a Happy Valentines to her Daddy this morning, "bye bye lame-o"

The Apartment

Welcome


Livingroom
Kitchen

The Office

As you can see we got a new chair... well kinda

I was always told, if you don't have room for your food storage make it into your furniture. Maybe if I recover the pillow it will look a little more decent.

My little girl looking like shes from the 80's



Lucy's room

Thursday, February 10, 2011