Last night it was Squash Goodness or so they say...
2 large or 4 small yellow squash cut into quarter inch half moons
1 medium sized yellow onion thinly sliced
5-6 slices of whole grain bread cubed
2 chicken breasts diced
1 cup mozzerella cheese shredded
italian seasoning, garlic
salt & pepper
2 tbls olive oil
*add any greens you have on hand like spinach or green beans that need to be cooked!
Preheat oven to 350, spray a large casserole dish with non-stick stuff.
In a large skillet preheated slosh around EVOO and add onion. Cook for 4-5 minutes until it begins to soften. Add squash and seasoning and saute for another 2-3 minutes. Pour into large bowl. Add a bit more EVOO into skillet then chicken. Brown chicken on both sides---don't cook through though! Mix squash, onion, chicken, cheese and cubed bread then dump into casserole.
Bake for 15 minutes covered, then 10-15 uncovered or until cheese is melted and light brown on top.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I can't seem to think of anything to say
So I enjoy reading some of your blogs which are truly inspiring works of art or are a great snapshot into your daily life but I just can't think of what to say! I nanny, so if I write about my day I would be stealing from Jake's sweet parents who enjoy blogging about the little guy...if I write about last weekend, then I would be only writing a boring snip-it compared to A LITTLE MISHAP and her tale of wine, cards and friends...so, I guess I will continue to write about food, and hopefully someday soon, I will begin to remember my camera so that I can capture the food and the day. Once I remember my camera, I hope to download the pics so that the world (or the few faithful followers) can see.
Until then, the FOOD!
Today I made Enchalada Soup. It took all of 10 minutes to prepare so go for it!!!
2 cans chicken broth
1 can rotel
some salsa (i.e.cover the chicken in pot)
1-2 chicken breasts diced (uncooked)
2-3 handfuls of shredded cheddar
5 tortillas (sliced or shredded into thin strips)
1/4 cup sour cream (in soup) + some for topping optional
TOPPINGS: tortilla chips, avacado, sour cream, cheese
Heat oven to 350, put tortillas spread on cookie sheet and toast 5-10 minutes.
Dump ALL ingredients into large pot or crock pot, cover and cook until chicken is cooked if on stovetop or for crockpot all day starting on high then switching to low after a few hours.
Serve with sour cream, cheese, chips and sliced avacado.
Until then, the FOOD!
Today I made Enchalada Soup. It took all of 10 minutes to prepare so go for it!!!
2 cans chicken broth
1 can rotel
some salsa (i.e.cover the chicken in pot)
1-2 chicken breasts diced (uncooked)
2-3 handfuls of shredded cheddar
5 tortillas (sliced or shredded into thin strips)
1/4 cup sour cream (in soup) + some for topping optional
TOPPINGS: tortilla chips, avacado, sour cream, cheese
Heat oven to 350, put tortillas spread on cookie sheet and toast 5-10 minutes.
Dump ALL ingredients into large pot or crock pot, cover and cook until chicken is cooked if on stovetop or for crockpot all day starting on high then switching to low after a few hours.
Serve with sour cream, cheese, chips and sliced avacado.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Because you asked...
Here is my meal plan for the week...
NUMBER 1:
Pork Chops w/ greenbean casserole and spinach salad
-marinate chops in brine (sugar, salt and water) for the day or overnight.
-season and grill chops
GB Casserole (good 'ole staple)
-cream mush soup (I'm making it from scratch to aviod trip to store)
-green beans
-cheese
-Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes
-fried onions (after all bubbly add to top until golden)
Salad
-spinach w/ feta, strawberries, apples, walnuts
-homemade dressing: red wine vinegar wisked with salt, then add garlic, pepper and sugar to taste. Then wisk in oil (I like Canola or Grapeseed, but you can use olive oil as well.
NUMBER 2:
Pita Pizzas
-spread hummus and feta on pita, bake until warm
-add bell pepper (any color), olive, sliced tomatoes, and spinach
-Bake more or eat at room temp.
NUMBER 3:
Beef Fajitas
-season and grill beef and peppers or onions
-Make guacamole: avacado, lime juice, fresh garlic, salt, pepper all smashed together
-sour cream
-diced tomatoes or salsa
NUMBER 4:
Ahi Tuna with mashed potatoes and sauteed zuchinni and squash
Tuna
-marinate in 2T soy sauce, 1 tsp ginger, 2 cloves garlic (smashed)
-Grill 3 min on each side, eat medium rare.
Potatoes
-boil diced potatoes in water until falling apart
-pour off most of the water
-mash with 2T butter, 3T cream cheese, salt and pepper
Zuchinni
-sautee thin sliced zuchinni and squash in butter and pepper until color is bright
NUMBER 5:
Thai Chicken with coconut rice
Chicken:
-in wok or skillet, heat to med-high, add olive oil
-add chopped onion, fresh garlic (2-3 cloves) and sautee for 2-3 minutes
-add chicken, squeeze 1/2 a lime
-cook until chickin is white all over (but not cooked through)
-add bell pepper (chopped)
-add yogurt sauce (1 cup plain yogurt, 1T curry paste, I use red curry paste usually)
-simmer for 2-4 minutes or until chicken is cooked through
-squeeze rest of lime
*variation, I am adding kale this week to get in a leafy green. Put it in at the last minute, cover and steam on the top of everything for 1-2 minutes until bright green and wilted.
Rice
-make Jasmine rice using package direction, but substitute coconut milk(canned) for most of the water and add a little sugar
Serve with tortillas and sour cream.
NUMBER 6:
At our house we are out almost all week, so we are having chicken pot pie and eating the leftovers the only other night we are home, so here that recipe is:
Pot Pie:
-diced raw chicken (2 breasts)
-cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup (2 cans)
-frozen peas,brocolli, zuchinni, tomato, mushroom, spinach, onion---really whatever you have in the fridge or freezer that need to go!
-cubed cheddar or shredded cheese
-mix all together
-Bake covered at 400 until bubbly, about 30-35 minutes, then lower temp to 350
-Add canned biscuits (like Pilsbury buttermilk biscuits) to the top and bake for time on package.
-Let cool for 10-15 minutes so its not too soupy
-Enjoy!
NUMBER 1:
Pork Chops w/ greenbean casserole and spinach salad
-marinate chops in brine (sugar, salt and water) for the day or overnight.
-season and grill chops
GB Casserole (good 'ole staple)
-cream mush soup (I'm making it from scratch to aviod trip to store)
-green beans
-cheese
-Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes
-fried onions (after all bubbly add to top until golden)
Salad
-spinach w/ feta, strawberries, apples, walnuts
-homemade dressing: red wine vinegar wisked with salt, then add garlic, pepper and sugar to taste. Then wisk in oil (I like Canola or Grapeseed, but you can use olive oil as well.
NUMBER 2:
Pita Pizzas
-spread hummus and feta on pita, bake until warm
-add bell pepper (any color), olive, sliced tomatoes, and spinach
-Bake more or eat at room temp.
NUMBER 3:
Beef Fajitas
-season and grill beef and peppers or onions
-Make guacamole: avacado, lime juice, fresh garlic, salt, pepper all smashed together
-sour cream
-diced tomatoes or salsa
NUMBER 4:
Ahi Tuna with mashed potatoes and sauteed zuchinni and squash
Tuna
-marinate in 2T soy sauce, 1 tsp ginger, 2 cloves garlic (smashed)
-Grill 3 min on each side, eat medium rare.
Potatoes
-boil diced potatoes in water until falling apart
-pour off most of the water
-mash with 2T butter, 3T cream cheese, salt and pepper
Zuchinni
-sautee thin sliced zuchinni and squash in butter and pepper until color is bright
NUMBER 5:
Thai Chicken with coconut rice
Chicken:
-in wok or skillet, heat to med-high, add olive oil
-add chopped onion, fresh garlic (2-3 cloves) and sautee for 2-3 minutes
-add chicken, squeeze 1/2 a lime
-cook until chickin is white all over (but not cooked through)
-add bell pepper (chopped)
-add yogurt sauce (1 cup plain yogurt, 1T curry paste, I use red curry paste usually)
-simmer for 2-4 minutes or until chicken is cooked through
-squeeze rest of lime
*variation, I am adding kale this week to get in a leafy green. Put it in at the last minute, cover and steam on the top of everything for 1-2 minutes until bright green and wilted.
Rice
-make Jasmine rice using package direction, but substitute coconut milk(canned) for most of the water and add a little sugar
Serve with tortillas and sour cream.
NUMBER 6:
At our house we are out almost all week, so we are having chicken pot pie and eating the leftovers the only other night we are home, so here that recipe is:
Pot Pie:
-diced raw chicken (2 breasts)
-cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup (2 cans)
-frozen peas,brocolli, zuchinni, tomato, mushroom, spinach, onion---really whatever you have in the fridge or freezer that need to go!
-cubed cheddar or shredded cheese
-mix all together
-Bake covered at 400 until bubbly, about 30-35 minutes, then lower temp to 350
-Add canned biscuits (like Pilsbury buttermilk biscuits) to the top and bake for time on package.
-Let cool for 10-15 minutes so its not too soupy
-Enjoy!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The New Normal
Well it has been a very long time since our last post and we have been busy! We moved into the city in May. Our building is a new "mid-rise" in The Heights part of Houston. It is a fun area, there are quite a few restaurants that we can walk to and tons of people to watch. We are 8 miles from my job (quite unusual for Houston) and Chris works from home so we get to see each during the day quite often.
Chris is working for Hole in the Roof Marketing (a Waco company) as a sales rep. He loves it and is getting better every day. He is also leading worship at our church, which is such a blessing to us because he still gets to play guitar regularly.
I am working for a family that lives downtown as their full time nanny and cook. It is a great job becuase I can be flexible enough to meet up with Chris during the day or see friends for play dates and still get paid. I stay really busy taking care of one child and running the household.
We both miss Waco and love being here. We feel like we have found a niche here that suits us well and are glad for the change while we miss our dear friends and wish we could see them more often. I thought we would go back more often, but life here has not stopped and I like that.
Chris is working for Hole in the Roof Marketing (a Waco company) as a sales rep. He loves it and is getting better every day. He is also leading worship at our church, which is such a blessing to us because he still gets to play guitar regularly.
I am working for a family that lives downtown as their full time nanny and cook. It is a great job becuase I can be flexible enough to meet up with Chris during the day or see friends for play dates and still get paid. I stay really busy taking care of one child and running the household.
We both miss Waco and love being here. We feel like we have found a niche here that suits us well and are glad for the change while we miss our dear friends and wish we could see them more often. I thought we would go back more often, but life here has not stopped and I like that.
Friday, February 6, 2009
MOVE
Well, I am happy to say that Chris and I have completed the first phase of our move to H-town. We live in Spring, TX now--one of the plethera suburbs outside of Houston proper. It is very different. Everything takes so long to get to...Barnes and Noble is now a 10 minute drive (if I'm lucky) as opposed to a 2 minute straight shot from doorstep to doorstep...well everything except the grocery store. I have so many grocery stores to choose from that are outside of our subdivision that I am now comparing their member rewards, gas prices, and organic selection and pricing. I think I am going with which ever one has the cheapest organic milk though. I was shocked to find out that a half gallon of organic, off-brand milk was $1 more!!! ARGH. That is not only my favorite grocery item, but often purchased. The second criteria for my grocer of choice is congestion. For those of you from Waco, imagine for an instant that you have arrived at HEB at 2 a.m., the store is empty, there are no lines, but there ARE stockers blocking the aisles...then take a moment to imagine you typical trip around 4 p.m. I literally had to take a deep breath and compose myself before I went in search for a "baby-cart" so that I could maneuver around the cabillion people that make up the entire population of Waco just for a few "basics": milk, eggs, tomatoes, apples and tortillas...Now when I enter a grocery store, it is to the smiling face of the door guy (or lady) and calming classical music over the speaker. No one is in my way, mind you, I MISSED people being in my way, but I carried on. At my first run, I found the aisles to be wider, the carts smaller and little dotted lines on the ground to indicate which side you were to stay on so that others could PASS!!! Amazing. Really. And they want to give me 10 cents off of my gas for shopping there...so we will see who wins, I have only been to one of the 4 different companies less that .5 miles from my house.
Next, we are living in a 1 bedroom apartment, which the owners apologized profusley for its small size and promised that we could come into the big side whenever we wanted...let me just say that it is anything but small for a 1 bedroom apartment. It is not large, but I can do everything (mostly) that I did before in our little house and the ceilings are at least 15 ft, so it is beautiful, bright and fresh feeling. We are truly blessed to stay there. We have a b-ball court upstairs if we want to get our game on and a giant screen to watch movies on...the list goes on...I basically feel like if I can't be home, that this is a great in between, couldn't really be better. Total privacy, yet I don't HAVE to be alone if I don't want to.
SO, that is the end of my ramblings for today.
Next, we are living in a 1 bedroom apartment, which the owners apologized profusley for its small size and promised that we could come into the big side whenever we wanted...let me just say that it is anything but small for a 1 bedroom apartment. It is not large, but I can do everything (mostly) that I did before in our little house and the ceilings are at least 15 ft, so it is beautiful, bright and fresh feeling. We are truly blessed to stay there. We have a b-ball court upstairs if we want to get our game on and a giant screen to watch movies on...the list goes on...I basically feel like if I can't be home, that this is a great in between, couldn't really be better. Total privacy, yet I don't HAVE to be alone if I don't want to.
SO, that is the end of my ramblings for today.
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