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Friday, January 22, 2021
Ski Lodge Lunch
Lunch was kind of a hodgepodge today. We had some leftover chicken taco meat in the fridge and a can of cream corn and some beans. So I whipped up something chili like and had it with apple cider. I felt like I was at a ski lodge! Yummmm!
Thursday, April 2, 2015
B is for Bibimbap (Thing)
Day 2 of nouns. Did a person yesterday. Today a thing is on the docket. Tomorrow, we will do a place, but after that it will be up for grabs. We might go place, place, thing, person, place, person. Who knows? All I know is that there will be nouns and there will be plenty of them.
Today's thing is bimimbap. Which up until a few minutes ago, I had never typed, or printed, or wrote in cursive. I had eaten it. Boy, had I eaten it. Bibimbap is a Korean dish and looks like this ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Turtle Cake is Best a HSD Rewind (Sort of)
Since the post was in draft it did not count in my post count. So this old post is actually # 600. 600 posts and I even brought a cake!
Spider Droid's Cub Scout Pack had a cake walk Friday Tonight. Each Cub Scout was to design and help make a cake according to a theme. I did not tell Spider Droid all the themes. There was an "other" theme which meant decorate the cake any way you want. I neglected to mention that one to Him. Otherwise it would have been A Star Wars Cake all the way. There is a limit to how much Star Wars stuff a guy can take, so I said nothing.
One of the themes was wildlife and SD decided to make a cake based on his favorite animal, the turtle. Here is how it turned out.
Meanwhile back in 2012 - Spider Droid is no longer doing scouts but he still likes turtles.
I promised that I would wrap up the HSBA today. If you check out my pages you will see a HSBA 2011 page. In it I have revealed all my voting for the awards and also highlighted all the winning blogs and shared a sample post from each.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A JJ Heller Style birthday
Since then I found out that J.J. Heller and I have a lot in common . . .
1. Her daughter has the same real name as Puppy.
2. She has a husband named Dave. I am a husband named Dave.
3. She blogs. I blog.
4. She made her daughter rainbow cupcakes for her recent birthday. We made Puppy rainbow cupcakes for her birthday.
5. She has a lovely singing voice. I
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
HSD Rewind: Pilgrim Hat Cookies
We are making Pilgrim Hat Cookies for Thanksgiving again this year. Here is a HSD Rewind to tell you all about how to do it.
Original Airdate November 2010
Here is what you need . . .
Fudge Striped Cookies Cream Cheese Frosting Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Orange Frosting Tube
Step 1. Set Fudge Striped Cookies Stripe side down on cookie sheet
Step 2 spread frosting on top of peanut butter cup .Step 3 affix peanut butter cup on cookie. Enough frosting will run over to make brim for hat.
Step 4 with orange frosting, make belt buckle on side of hat.
Step 5. Voila.
Meanwhile back in 2011 . . .
I guess if you take off the buckle you could also call them Ringmaster Hat cookies. That is just a clunky segue to remind you in the Chicagoland area that there are just 3 more days to see the Ringling Brothers Circus perform Fully Charged at the United Center. They will not be performing tomorrow but have 8 big beautiful shows between Friday and Sunday. If you use the keyword MOM you can still save $4.00 per ticket.
Next Time: Thankful for a Random Wife
Saturday, September 10, 2011
The Good Fruit, and the Ugly
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Monday, July 18, 2011
HSD Rewind: Newspaper Fried Chicken
Original Air Date: June 30th, 2009
I have asked my lovely wife to contribute one of my favorite recipes for this special themed edition of WFMW. This dish works for us as a dish to pass at summer cookouts but also makes a great family dinner. Here is the lovely and Talented Mrs. Dad . . .
This is called "newspaper chicken" because we got the recipe from the newspaper. Creative huh.
**NOTE: This is a two-day affair, but well worth it!
Here's how I make it, but there are any number of variations you can make to make it your own. I take 5 lbs of boneless chicken breasts and cut them into small strips or chunks (I get the bag-o-frozen chicken from Aldi.) I cover them in water in a large tupperware bowl and add 1 cup of salt. Yes, one entire cup of salt. I put the cover on it, and shake it a few times, and refrigerate it overnight. Sometimes during the night, if I happen to get up, I shake it a few more times. In the morning, I dump out the salt water and rinse the chicken well. Really well. This brining isn't for flavoring. Then, using the same bowl while the chicken is on a plate or drainer, I put 2 cups of milk (I use skim) in the bowl and 2 tablespoons of vinegar and stir that up (handy dandy buttermilk.) Then return the chicken to the bowl and make sure the chicken is covered. If not, add more milk. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours. I like to double dip my chicken because it comes out so crunchy, really good. I put 2 cups of flour, along with 1 tsp of the following: salt, garlic powder, chili powder, and 1/2 tsp of pepper and dry mustard. Mix it really well in a large ziplock bag (I've tried doing it in a bowl, but doesn't work as well.) So you take chicken out of buttermilk and save the buttermilk! Put chicken on a plate. Then with a pair of tongs or "grabbers" put a few pieces of chicken in the flour mixture to coat, then grab with grabbers, drop in buttermilk, and then back into flour mixture.
Place coated chicken on a tray (I use my pampered chef "stackable cooling rack" laid on top of a cookie sheet.) Once all chicken is double coated, let the tray sit in the fridge for another hour. This ensures the coating will stick to the chicken. **Sometimes I do have to make another bag of flour mixture. This double coating is messy, but it really makes for nice, crunchy chicken. After an hour, get a frying pan ready with enough oil to be 1/2 way up the sides of the chicken. I fry it over medium high heat. Once the oil is hot, place a few pieces of chicken in the oil. If you're doing it right, as the hot oil is cooking the food, the salt water is coming out of the chicken, therefore, making it a nongreasy affair. Love it. So you fry it on one side for about 4 minutes (try to leave it alone here, don't check it a bunch of times), and the other side for about 4 minutes more. This, of course, varies according to size. Using bone-in chicken will take longer. Now, this is important: do not try to keep the chicken warm to try to serve in an hour or so. Either serve immediately, or allow to cool and either serve cold, or microwave to warm it up. If you try to keep it warm in the oven, it gets gooey, and nobody likes gooey chicken! This chicken also freezes quite well. I usually have enough for a meal right away, leftovers in the fridge, and then some in the freezer for a later meal.
Ingredients at a Glance:
5 lbs boneless chicken breasts
1 cup salt, water to cover chicken
2 cups milk plus 2 TBLS vinegar (or buttermilk if you have it)
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt, garlic powder, chili powder
1/2 tsp pepper and dried mustard
oil for frying
Thanks Amy. She also does a great impression of Jimmy Stewart saying chicken. She is certainly a woman of many talents.
Meanwhile back in 2011. Amy is still a woman of many talents. Today she got a job that she neither applied for nor interviewed for. She merely told some people she wanted it, and bam, it was hers. It's actually her same job just in a different school, one much closer to our house.
So she will be able to get home quicker and make this fantastic chicken. We still love it and hope you will too. If I repost this in ten years time I might have to remind people what a newspaper was.
As with last time I shared this recipe, I am sharing this @ We Are That Family for Works for me Wednesday because (wait for it) Newspaper Chicken works for me. click here to see what works for others who may not have chicken on their mind and be so easily defined.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Raising the Bar on Fractions
We used our own chocolate bars and placed them over each page of the book.
The kids took turns reading the book, placing the chocolate and even taking the pictures I am sharing here.
I like these pages because it gives a strong reinforcement that 12 twelfths is the same as one whole.
We really weren't able to stack the pieces exactly like in the book. But the kids got the idea.
Note: To put chocolate on each page as we did, you will need at least 3 candy bars.
The Carnival of Homeschooling is at Why Homeschool this week. Click here to check out all the fine entries in the Memorial Day Edition.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Crackers to the rescue.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Pizza
So, when I say that Amy makes restaurant quality pizza here in the NW burbs of Chicago, that is high praise indeed.
She can take this . . .
Make it look like this . . .
And eat like this . . .
That's what I call good pizza!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Pilgrim Hat Cookies
Here is what you need . . .
Fudge Striped Cookies
Cream Cheese Frosting
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Orange Frosting Tube
Step 1. Set Fudge Striped Cookies Stripe side down on cookie sheet
Step 2 spread frosting on top of peanut butter cup .Step 3 affix peanut butter cup on cookie. Enough frosting will run over to make brim for hat.
Step 4 with orange frosting, make belt buckle on side of hat.
Step 5. Voila.