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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Gravy
Why does gravy taste so good? Baked a chicken this weekend. Used Penzey's 4/S Seasoned Salt to flavor the skin, filled the cavity of the chicken with lemons and put on a roasting rack over potatoes. Then I made a gravy after I took out the potatoes with the drippings. S ate the chicken. Loved it. V ate the chicken. Loved it. Both ate their broccoli and I thought it was a successful meal. But why is the gravy my favorite part? Seriously? I'm looking to make Mom's taco pie tomorrow night for dinner. Hope to get to the butcher to get some items for my freezer and fridge. Hoping I can prep the pie before V gets home from school tomorrow. And then maybe make some chocolate chip cookies - I am so craving homemade choco chip cookies... does it have something to do with the gravy?
Friday, March 9, 2012
Right, so prepping dinners.
A couple of weeks ago we were skiing and they were giving away 5 hour energy drinks and I thought, hmm, what I could do with five extra hours. I could use those hours to prep my dinners... Right. I'd probably use them to sleep, but prepping dinners would be divine.
The ziti went over very well with the whole family. S loves sausage. V, not so much, but the noodles were enough to keep her at the table.
Yesterday morning I made homemade oatmeal. Right, in 1950, if I said homemade oatmeal, moms would have laughed at me. But I did the Quaker "slow" cooking oats. I didn't want to surprise them into oatmeal with my can of McCann's Irish Oatmeal and I didn't have thirty minutes to cook it on the stove. Even though I love McCanns and think I'll try their overnight idea. So, onto the oatmeal. Scout wasn't so sure, so I went between oatmeal and Cheerios. She finished her bowl. V, didn't like it after her third (and final) teaspoon of sugar. I totally get it. I only liked the instant when I was little and I know there is more than four teaspoons of brown sugar in that little bag. But she really needs to be polite. After screaming, crying, drama, saying we liked S better, and more drama, she went to her room where I told her that she was not to have a pop-tart that morning. She only needed to eat five more bites for a pop-tart. More crying ensued and in about 30 minutes, she was fine.
But she must have gone to school hungry...
The ziti went over very well with the whole family. S loves sausage. V, not so much, but the noodles were enough to keep her at the table.
Yesterday morning I made homemade oatmeal. Right, in 1950, if I said homemade oatmeal, moms would have laughed at me. But I did the Quaker "slow" cooking oats. I didn't want to surprise them into oatmeal with my can of McCann's Irish Oatmeal and I didn't have thirty minutes to cook it on the stove. Even though I love McCanns and think I'll try their overnight idea. So, onto the oatmeal. Scout wasn't so sure, so I went between oatmeal and Cheerios. She finished her bowl. V, didn't like it after her third (and final) teaspoon of sugar. I totally get it. I only liked the instant when I was little and I know there is more than four teaspoons of brown sugar in that little bag. But she really needs to be polite. After screaming, crying, drama, saying we liked S better, and more drama, she went to her room where I told her that she was not to have a pop-tart that morning. She only needed to eat five more bites for a pop-tart. More crying ensued and in about 30 minutes, she was fine.
But she must have gone to school hungry...
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