New recipe

I don't like to cook. When I try a new recipe, it usually fails. However, once in a while, I score!

I tried a new recipe last week and SCORED! K girl even ate some. So I will share what I made. I saw a recipe in Taste of Home's Quick Cooking and adapted it to us (that's an even bigger deal for me; that's usually how I mess up a new recipe)

So here is how I made it.
Chicken with Onion Gravy
1 pkg chicken tenders (Tyson all cut up and ready to go)
1 pkg onion soup mix (the dry kind)
1 can chicken broth
16 ounces 1/2 and 1/2
flour, garlic salt, and cracked black pepper
EVOO

In a gallon ziplock bag, mix flour (enough for the amount of chicken that you have), garlic salt and pepper (to your taste). Place chicken in bag and coat.

In a large pan, heat EVOO. Cook chicken in pan just long enough to start getting brown (they won't be cooked the entire way through). Remove chicken from pan.

In the bottom of the same pan, carefully pour in the broth. Whisk all the bits up off the bottom of the pan. Pour in soup; mix well. Slowly pour in 1/2 and 1/2. Once it is all combined, add chicken back to the pan. Stir often. Cook until chicken is cooked through.

I served this with mashed tatoes (pre-made Bob Evans brand) and Sis Shubert rolls (YUMMY huh sissy?). K loved the mashed tatoes! She helped "make" them and ate 2 helpings. I figured out that if she helps, she's more willing to eat it. The gravy that the chicken cooked in was wonderful over the tatoes. The only thing--the house smelled like onions for a long time afterwards!

Indianapolis Indians game

The Indianapolis Indians are a AAA baseball team. Every year our church gets free tickets to go see a game. It's nice to go to this game, cuz most people in our section are from our church. K and I didn't go last year because it was so HOT. This year, it was beautiful! We actually took jackets for the kids. Another bonus, Monday nights are $1 menu nights. So we ate dinner at the ball park.

We had a really nice time. The kids were good (extra nice since Monday was HORRIBLE w/ K girl-HORRIBLE), the weather was beautiful, the Indians won, and we got to just sit and talk with church people.

We took Stanley with us (I remembered poor Stanley). So here are some pictures of our night.

As we were walking to the stadium, we saw the outside of the massive Lucas Oil Stadium where the Colts play.I know it's hard to see, but the Indians won 5 to 1.

Breakfast

We had cookies for breakfast this morning. Aren't I an awesome mom?

Our weekend

Here is just a quick re-cap of what we did last weekend. (Just as much for my memory as for your interest)

Saturday morning we had to go to church. We are trying to make a Christmas CD to sell to raise money for Dei Gratia. Daddy got elected to do all the taping. We are taping groups, solos, instruments, etc. of people in our church. We are hoping that our church family will be interested enough to buy them. Anyways. We only had a piano solo to tape Saturday morning and they were done in 30 minutes. Very nice.

We then went home and got a lot done around the house. Daddy mowed grass and weed eated. We all helped to stain another section of fence (only 11 sections left!), pulled weeds in the front, swept, baths, PlayStation, and then I cleaned up all the grass that got tracked in all day. Later that night, we went to some friends house and she asked what we had done that day. By the time we stopped listing everything, she said "wow you did get a lot done."

Saturday night there was a night NASCAR race. We went to some friends house for the guys to watch the race and the girls to sit and talk. The kids always enjoy going cuz they get to play outside on their big driveway. We took their bikes and they had a great time. She always fixes dinner and monitors the kids for us. It's always a lot of fun. But it was another late night.

Night out

Last Friday night, Daddy and I got to go out. For no specific reason. Aaaah. How nice! We went to Weber Grill. I love that place. They have awesome meatloaf and cornbread and pretzel rolls and garlic smashed tatoes and..... I could go on. I love their food!

After we ate, we walked around the mall downtown. And then came back closer to home and went to Target. I found 2 new pairs of shorts for our Disney trip and we found just a few other things. It was a wonderful night, with no kids!

M and Green socks watched the kids for us. We ordered them pizza for dinner and then Mr. D and Miss J brought the kids some ice cream. (We game them a hard time later "you came to our house for a party when we weren't there!") The kids were so excited about the ice cream. They thought they were hot stuff cuz "they had ice cream and mommy and daddy didn't."

M & GS put the kids to bed around 10 or so. Of course, they don't know our "routine" for bed and so my kids were so confused. I guess M latched K's door and it freaked K out. "I don't want to be locked in." So C explained that the metal (latch on the door) touches the metal (latch on the door jam). Oh dear. And I usually hum Brahms Lullaby to my kids before bed. So K asked M to sing to her and tried to explain which song M was to sing. Since M had no clue, she sang Jesus Loves Me. That was quite the story from K once we got home. I think my kids are just a LITTLE routine oriented at bed time. We got home about 15 minutes later and were able to right all the wrongs in the world--or so you would think.

I think everyone had fun and I know it was wonderful to spend time with just my wonderful hubby!