I'm Back!

Well it has been over a month, but I am back!!

I've been spending my time playing with Baby Boy (BB), reading, watching HGTV, cooking, and doing countless loads of laundry!

I'm going back to work early (8 months early) and thus have been searching for quick and easy recipes for dinner time.  I've pulled out my slow cooker, dusted it off and plan to put it to use!  If any of you have some favourite slow cooker (crock pot) dishes please share!!

Armed with my list of ingredients for the recipes I'll be trying, I went to the grocery store and stocked up on meats, sauces, soups, and veggies.  While I was going down the last aisle something caught my eye that I haven't made in a while.... DONAIRS.  One of my favourite eats!  Although I'm not sure if donair meat comes from any animal I've ever heard of- it is delicious!  

In case any of you have not heard of or seen a donair here is a picture:


Pita Pocket drizzled with water, then quickly fried in a hot skillet, hot donair "meat", onions, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and donair sauce!!  YUM!!!

So I bought a kit- and am making them for dinner tonight!
Enjoy!

Recipes Continued

I made the Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken that I previously posted:

Perfectly Plated!

 Surprisingly Tasty!

Have you ever made any strange recipes that turned out to be delicious?!

Clean Spree!

Wow!!  What an afternoon!
Stefan and I majorly cleaned and organized the house.  We moved furniture, collect recycling, did laundry, all while little Juri slept!
Stefan carried my desk downstairs and I put in front of the dinning room window.  We took one leaf out of the dinning room table (since it's just the 2.5 of us), and carried a wing chair to the basement.  We rearranged the guest room and moved around some furniture in the baby's room.

I'm tired!!  Pictures to come:

Dinning Room 

"My" Space.

Happy 3 months and 1 week!!

Juri in his pink bumbo.  Hey, beggars can't be choosers!!

Recipes!!

I am failing in the domestic way of life.  I lowered myself to serving my husband chicken nuggets and chips for dinner one night last week.  His comment was "don't over do-it" (or something to that effect).  Hubby is an electrician and for the past several weeks he has been working outside underneath a building preparing it to do the electrical work inside.  It has been very cold lately, so he looks forward to coming home to a hot meal.
This is where I come in.... I am getting lazy in the kitchen.

I used to love to bake and cook.  Now it overwhelms me.  Although I did manage to whip up a delicious chicken stir fry with rice the night after the disaster "birthday party type" chicken nuggets and chips, I'm struggling.

I began searching the web last night and lo and behold I stumbled upon a life-saving website: momswhothink.com.

They have great recipes; fast, healthy, and made with ingredients one would normally have in stock.

I found a great Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe which I may try tomorrow night.  It actually uses chicken nuggets, let's see what Hubby has to say about that!!

Ingredients:

1 10-ounce package frozen breaded chicken nuggets
1½ cups quick cooking rice
1 8-ounce canned pineapple chunks
1 large green sweet pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
¼ cup vinegar
3 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons cornstarch
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
½ teaspoon instant chicken bouillon granules
1 8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts, drained

Directions:

1.  Bake chicken nuggets according to package directions.

2.  Prepare quick cooking rice according to package directions.

3.  Drain pineapple, reserving juice.  Add enough water to reserved juice to make 1 ½ cups liquid.

4.  Pour pineapple juice mixture into a medium saucepan.  Add sweet pepper.  Bring to boiling, reduce heat.

5.  Cover and simmer for 1 to 2 minutes or until pepper is crisp-tender.

6.  Stir together vinegar, sugar, cornstarch, soy sauce, and bouillon granules.

7.  Stir into mixture in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly, then cook and stir for 2 minutes more.

8.  Gently stir in chicken, pineapple chunks, and water chestnuts.  Heat through.

9.  Serve chicken mixture over hot cooked rice.  Makes 4 servings.

Recipes from: momswhothink.com