Monday, January 31, 2011

Dress Up Day

Sleddin' with Daddy
Recognize this jacket Mom? :-
So yesterday i had to clean out the storage space because somebody (ryan) stuffed all the girls bins of clothes waaaaaaay in the back. And I need to start getting their summer clothes out for the bahamas and disney in T minus 27 days!!!!!!!!!!! Well, i came accross a box of dresses i have saved, every dress from as far back as my mom's wedding dress to erin' 8th grade dress to my prom dress. Jillian went BANANAS!!! it was like xmas morning!! she wore the dresses around all afternoon, and even to dinner! Aunty's dresses almost fit her, what a midgit, lol!!!
I have to share the recipe I made for dinner tonite, it was soooo good. I love chicken pot pie, and have made dozens, this one, modified with more veggies (shocking i know!) from my feb Martha Stewart is by far the best.
Chicken pot pie with puff pastry
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 3 tbl evoo
  • 3 carrots, peeled and chopped
  • 4 potatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 1/2c white wine
  • 1 1/2 c ckn stock
  • 1lb of boneless ckn breasts chopped
  • couple pinches of tyme
  • salt and pepper
  • 5 tbls of constarch whisked with 4 tbls. of water
  • 1/2 c heavy cream
  • package of puff pastry (thawed)
  • 1 egg beaten lightly

preheat oven 425. cook garlic in evoo until fragrant, over med heat. add carrots and potato, cook 10 to 15 mins to soft. add wine, simmer 2 mins. add stock, bring to boil. add ckn and tyme. cook for couple mins until ckn cooked. season salt and pepper. add cornstarch mixture and cream, simmer until thick, about 5 mins. transer to baking dish, i use the medium rachel ray bubble and brown, top with puff pastry, it will overlap. brush with egg and cut a few holes in top with knife to vent. cook till golden about 15 mins. delish!!!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The things I do for Aunty Erin

ohhhh, fashion is not comfortable i tell u!

We are pretending its spring




we are over winter, we are ready for warm breezes and flowers!!! So, considering thats months away, the girls pretended the hallway was the sidewalk, we got some flowers at the grocery store, and they stood by the heat vent for a minute!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

They are so children of the 2000's!

watchin a movie on the laptop. ha! in the 80's, when I grew up, we didn't even have cable! how times have changed!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Ugh

so we have some type of flu over here, Jillian got sick Xmas eve, and like domino's we all have fallen. Luckily its not the throwing up gross flu, but we sound like a bunch of seals at the zoo. People have been telling me they didn't feel better for 2 weeks from this stuff, 2011 is off to a great start!

2010 was also a pretty crummy New Year's eve, we made it till 10pm and had chicken soup for dinner! Usually we go out for a great meal with friends, but this year was going to be really special cause our favorite Ohio people were coming!! Well, of course they couldn't come, we didn't wanna give Carson and baby mama our sickness. Luckily my thoughtful friend Stephanie texted me a picture of some giant shrimp and yummy steak while they ate at our FAVORITE restaurant ever Butch's!!! Ha ha, she also mentioned they missed us and it wasn't the same without us, and since food has little taste to me right now, all is forgiven!! oh well, there is always another new year's eve, i'm sure it will be faster than I would like!

Hope everyone has a joyful, healthy and safe New Year!! 2011!! I thought I'd be riding around in little jetson spaceship by now! ha!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Meet our newest family members...

Blueberry and Elmo (self explanatory i hope). I hope Santa is gonna come clean their bowl once a week. Ha!