Sunday 22 January 2012

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?!

Saturday 21 January 2012

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!!

Friday 20 January 2012

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