Yesterday I moved non stop from twelve o’clock in the afternoon to eight forty-five at night. My body is hurting.
The hubby has been saying his stress eye has been acting up, because the house has been clustered with bins. I think he mild claustrophobic side was being pressured. So I did the deed…
I cleaned. And cleaned. And cleaned. I unpacked almost all of the bins that filled the house. We brought about… fourteen bins; now we only have six left.
We have a huge stack of empty bins outside our back door.
But which means I’m exhausted. And I wrote this post last night as I waited for my baby to fall asleep.
So please have a restful and chill Wednesday. I will try as well. ❤️
I’ve been on vacation. Blog posts were put on the back burner to fully enjoy my time off.
But…Another Pinterest recipe with a repetitive recipe. Onion rings and orange chicken.
Since I was already going to be frying the chicken, I decided to make some onion rings. The hubby has been craving onion rings for a while now.
The picture for the recipe on Pinterest.
I had high hopes for them. Since I’m picky about onion rings too.
The recipe called for 2-3 onions.
I didn’t realize how much that would make…I cut up way too many. And I used sweet onions. It’s the bag that was opened in the cabinet.
Flour mixture Egg and milk mixture.Panko crumb mixture.
Why does it always want to auto correct panko to Pablo…very annoying.
So many things.
Yes. There is chocolate cake there too. The hubby wanted something chocolate at work the other day so I made some cake.
The rice has begun.
Don’t forget that the real dinner is orange chicken…
The chicken is cubed.
That’s only three chicken breast. I decided to do three so that there would be leftovers for the hubby’s next shifts.
I don’t know if I have stated this before…
But my sister gave me this thermometer for my birthday. This is my forever one!
The chicken has been tossed once.
The chicken will have to wait until the onion rings are done. I guess the onion rings are more of an appetizer to the orange chicken. Weird mix…
See this cutting board?
I turned to do something quickly. As I turned back to the cutting board I saw my baby climbing up towards it! I yelled for the hubby, and baby got startled and ran away. Better than her mess with raw chicken.
This is already: dip onions in flour mixture, smother in egg mixture, another flour dusting, and now the second dipping of egg mixture.
A rather sticky process but it is looking delicious!
Now the panko coating. The frying.
The oil was heated to 350. It only took about 2min to completely cook the onion rings. They came out golden brown and crispy.
I had called the hubby that the first batch was done…
He devoured most of these onion rings. Haha! He said I’ve ruined another food for him. He will no longer be able to eat onion rings out. Mwahahahaha!
Before the last two rounds are done…these lonely two onion rings are left.
The hubby did feed my a couple bites as he eat the onion rings. I’m amazed…He shared his food. Haha
Chicken time!The chicken takes more time so I have moments to eat the onion rings.
I don’t think I am going to be hungry for the orange chicken…
Oh so crispy.
The oil was already filled with burnt panko crumbs from the onion rings. So occasionally as I pulled the chicken out I would get some burnt crumbs. Just some extra flavor!
About half my normal amount of orange chicken.
I wish onion rings could be a meal!
The green beans must have been freezer burnt. None of us ate our greens. They were nasty.
Dishes…Dishes…More dishes.
It seemed never ending. But I decided to wait until after dinner to do the dishes. The hubby and baby would go watch a movie; while I do the dishes and listen to my book.
But first cake. Cake is always comes first. Yummy!!
Look like photo: 10! They look identical to the picture. Crispy golden brown!
Taste: 10! The onion rings are awesome!! If I could rate it 1,000 I would!!!
Easiness: 9! I think because of the stickiness it is more difficult than fries, but the time quantity is way shorter than fries.
Overall… a definite yes to the recipe! Will try again soon. Maybe tomorrow! Also the cake gets a 10!
So this time I did several different recipes. But a few of them, I’ve done before so I didn’t think to take pictures of the whole process…but I’ll post what I did!
Okay so first I made pizza dough, and I had it rising in the fridge. The recipe I use works wonders if you refrigerate the dough.
I don’t have a photo of the pizza I made, because I made it for the hubby. And I only had 4min to cut it, put it on the pan, get the baby in the car, and drive it to him at work. 😮💨
I was only 3min late. 😎 (I drove the speed limit) We just live only 1mile away.
But then I made bread rolls with the other half of the dough.
I doused them in butter and sprinkled our pizza seasoning over them.
So delicious. I had about 3 of them!
Then I decided I should make the marinara meatball idea. The hubby had wanted to go to Subway for lunch, but instead I made him a lunch meat sandwich at home.
Still…I made the food he really wanted to help us save money.
This was a new recipe. But it’s just put everything in a bowl, then form the meatballs.
I used my new favorite marinara sauce recipe. I had that going. I let it simmer for about 30min, while I made the meatballs.
Wow!
Times this by two and you will know how many meatballs I rolled…😮💨
While the meatballs cooked I did the dishes…And made baked donuts.
Our buttermilk was going to expire in 12 days. Since it’s not cheap I decided to use it up and make delicious donuts. Not that we need them or anything.
Baby chose the color for the glaze. Pink! It made about 24 donuts!!🤤 I tested them for poison. Baby did too…
They are done!I forgot to take a picture when I poured them all in the sauce…since I wasn’t eating them tonight I wanted to get them in containers sooner than later so that they would cool off.
We are going to be eating this for a while…hope the hubby is ready to eat the sandwich beyond his heart’s desire.
Next was salsa…
The hubby had gone to store and gotten some chips and salsa, that was on sale. But sadly the salsa tasted more like pizza sauce…so I was tasked with the mission of making it taste better.
So I chopped some onion, jalapeño, and added some minced garlic. Stir!I added too much stuff, so I had to add more tomatoes.
I also added some salt. Yummy!! When in doubt, add onion, jalapeño, garlic, and salt. And if you need more tomatoes, I used a can of diced tomatoes. I just chopped them a bit more before adding them.
I about double the amount we had from the start.
Hopefully the hubby approves!
Dishes once again. This is my second load in the sink and also my second load in the dishwasher.
I can’t really rate this blog post, since I did a few recipes randomly. But also the new one I won’t be eating until later today.
But just know easiness of all the recipes I did, would be a 10!! Because I did…1, 2, 3,…6! I did six different recipes from 3:30pm-8pm.
I was pooped yesterday. Today I’m just going to enjoy my Sunday! ❤️
Our vacation was only four days long…but we did so much in those four days. Making me realize that the hubby and I are very boring people. We are home bodies.
We are exhausted. These last few days wore us out!
So because of all of this…this is my post. I will be just venting my exhaustion.
Also I realize all my posts lately have been poems. But poems are easy and not time consuming. I usually write it the night before, or if I wake up early in bed.
So pardon the repetitiveness. This is not becoming a poetry blog. It is still an everything blog.
Have a wonderful Friday! 🌷Fall is almost here! 🍁
Some photos from our trip.
We rented a house. Very comfy. We actually ended up bringing the mattress from the other room, placing it on the floor, and using it for baby. I love tunnels. Baby does too! She puts her hands up like it was a rollercoaster. I love it when the sun comes through the clouds! God is saying hello!I stayed over here. 350ft drop…Heights…Nope! 😳Water. As baby says…waaer Big Waaer! Baby again ran straight for it; thankfully daddy caught her in time!The dead trees mixed with the alive trees was trippy on the eyes. It was actually giving me a headache when I stared at it too long. Beautiful mountains!
The bacon is done already from breakfast; and I have almost all the correct ingredients!
I’m actually not listening to music this time. I’ve been listening to DryBar YouTube comedy videos. They are my kind of humor. 😆
I’ve been wanting to snack all day…so I decided to have a yummy food for dinner. Also in the high hopes that my daughter would eat it.
Homemade pizza dough
I’ve become picky with pizza dough. Mine is delicious and I know what’s in it!
Ranch and bacon
The recipe says ranch or Caesar dressing. I have ranch. I shall use ranch.
2 chicken breast.
I’ve been trying to use less chicken in recipes and only make a smaller amount. I’ve come to find out I can stretch two chicken breasts pretty far.
Cook the chickens about 15minLook at this!
You are probably wondering why I’m pointing out this amazing paper covered pan…because I didn’t read the next step and it said to oil the pan…😑
So….
I’m saving that paper. Not so much for the being frugal… but because one day I’m going to use it correctly and when it is needed and I shall do a wonderful maniacal laugh!! Mwahahahahahaha!!
Back on topic…
Chicken is cooking nicely!
I’ve always cooked chicken a solid 20min. No matter how it is chopped…so my chicken has been pretty dry, 8 times out of 10. So I looked up How long to cook cubed chicken? Google says 15min…I shall trust google…
My rolling station is complete!Look at that bowl…
Not the bowl of bacon…but the bowl of death… usually you only see about 1-2 TBSP in a salad… but not the cup amount in that bowl.
Done!
I always drain the chicken. Only when it is being added to something else.
Dough.Ranch.
Plop!
Bacon!
Best part! I would totally sample some but I wouldn’t have enough.
Cheese and chicken!
Even though I’m using less chicken, I don’t skimp out of the serving size of the chicken!
Roll similar to a burrito…
Sandwich/ burrito…I now know how wraps were discovered…
On the greased pan!
Stupid greased pan…
😳
I ran out of mozzarella cheese…like in the entire house. We just went to Costco too.
😎
The recipe said to make 6…but let’s be honest I wanted a big one for dinner. Don’t worry I’ll be eating some celery later…
So that is an egg/ lite ranch/ pizza seasoning topping wash. It smells delicious!
Dishes…
I of course had let the kitchen go a little crazy because I’ve been drawing and painting. Moms out there… you understand, you give yourself some you time and the house falls apart…
Yumm!
For mine I used less ranch. I wanted to keep it a little healthier, but I wanted to eat all the delicious dough! So realistically not that much healthier…
So excited!
Look Like Photo: 8. But who really cares about this part…you want to know about the taste…
Taste: 10!! So delicious! I will definitely be making this again. But probably not often because of the amount of calories I just devoured.
Easiness: 9. It wasn’t really hard. Quite simple if you have all the ingredients. Just the prep, before the oven, is what takes most of the time.
Overall a keeper!!
DryBar Video to watch:
Your Dumb Friend – Cam Bertrand
This was the video I watched. My hubby kept looking at me funny, as I busted up in laughter. Only I could hear it. Haha, I probably looked insane.
We decided to completely change the layout of our house… now three days ago…🥸
Haha! I mean completely! We moved our bedroom from the second floor to the basement. My art room from the basement to the living room. Eli’s bedroom from the second floor to the basement. The guest bedroom from the basement to the second floor.
The hubby’s “man cave” (more of a desk area) from the living room to the second floor; he now has an official man cave. He is super stoked!
All around it is now a better layout. We also get all the luxuries that we initially wanted. A bedroom with a bathroom attached. Laundry on the same floor as our bedrooms. And a man cave for the hubby.
But it meant carrying our king mattress down two floors and a queen mattress up two floors…😳 it was a lot! I’m amazed the hubby did not strangle me, as he tried to direct me and I was hearing the opposite. Haha!
I’m sore and exhausted. But I still have organizing to do! Which I like organizing! I would say it is a guilty pleasure. Especially now, since our house is completely flipped, I will be happy and content with all my new projects!!
Hope your life has not been completely flipped, but change it up and do something new today! It might just surprise you! 🎉
Well as I scrolled through Pinterest and I found this recipe!! Wow! I showed the hubby and it was decided that we should have this for dinner.
🤤
Since we decided upon this we had to go to the grocery store to get buttermilk, sriracha sauce, coleslaw, and buns. Yummy here I come!!
Buttermilk and the spices!
My luck of spicy is not the greatest so I decided to only do half the desired cayenne pepper. Hopefully it was still be yummy and not burn my face off.
Defrosting
The bacon will be cooked later. First I must deal with the chicken.
Start your engines!! Begin!
I decided to cut the breasts in half and do six smaller chickens. The recipe said to do a full breast for four breasts. I did three and made it into six-ish servings.
The prepared buttermilk. Chicken.😂 haha
When doing the smashing I got out the smaller of my two rollers. The hubby was next to me and he said, “Use the bigger one.”
I said, “I want to use this smaller one, in case it breaks.”
Him: “You don’t have to worry about that, you won’t have that much force…”
Me: “SMASH! Smash! Smash!” -the hubby walked off. Since one of my hits, broke off a piece of chicken from its whole. 😂 haha!
All the chicken has been beaten! Mwahahahaha!! This is is lunch.
We have gotten to the point that one pizza can feed all three of us. It should be able to feed another person but the hubby was hungry…one piece for Eli, two for me, and the rest to the crazy eating machine!
😎
The recipe said to let it marinate for at least four hours. So I will be back in a bit to complete this blog…
Prepare the coleslaw and let it sit for a bit in the fridge.
We got a prepackaged bag of the shredded coleslaw. I found a secondary recipe for the dressing. Yum!
I know some people are not a fan…I wasn’t either, but now I love it on certain foods!
I’ve been adding more songs to my favorites list!! The spicy, honey sauce…
🥵 wow! That sauce is killer…as in melt my head off!! I split the concoction in half and added way more honey!!
My trusty frying pot!!
We got this pot from someone who was moving…best pot ever! Sturdy and free!!
Bacon…
Baaaaaccccccon…..!!! Mwahahahaha!!
Dust the chicken.
That’s a lie!! Coat that chicken with the flour mixture, until you think it can no longer take anymore…then add more!!
😳
That is for one sandwich… maybe next time I’ll cut the chicken breasts into thirds…
I also found out, that you should never place fried chicken on paper towels; it ruins the crunch. So I used my cookie rack.
More tunes!
Tunes are key to a successful dinner!! 😎
Oooooo
I know this is strange, but as I’m writing this post, the song, “Let’s Get It On,” came to my brain…haha 😅
Anybody order a tall sandwich?
It will be a challenge, but somehow this sandwich is going to fit in my mouth. 🤨
Looks Like Photo: 10! My sandwich is taller but that perfectly fine. Bigger is better!!
Taste: 10!!! 100!! Wow! It was amazing! Worth the wait and time! But for my sandwich I put the coleslaw on top of the chicken and bacon. My bun was not soggy!!
Easiness: 8…since there was lots to do and it did take some time. But I will say…it was easier than making orange chicken. Will definitely be making this again!!
I’m currently in a food coma… Enjoy your day! I will be trying to move…in the next hour…or more…🥱
Synonyms: adorableness, allure, attraction, elegance, etc.
…
Please,
True desire;
I burn for you,
I’ll die for it…
Well maybe not,
But it needs me!
The shine,
The glam.
I know you agree.
I feel on fire!
What a pretty hue.
No better fit.
You know it’s true.
We’ll look smokin hot!
Shall I write a decree?
The design…
Oh, yes ma’am!
…
Don’t know really what my topic was. But pretty obvious the path. The allure of something…usually if I get that desperate need of something it is either food or something I will never actually use…
I have so many shoes that spoke to me in the store but never were worn…🥺
Haha! But to be honest when I was writing this…my mind kept thinking of a McDonald’s cheeseburger…those are the best!
I don’t get to eat them often…which I know, is good for me but…sometimes I just want a #7!! 🤣
My baby is asleep on the floor and I’m sitting here thinking about cheeseburgers…it’s going to be a long day…
Have a great Monday!
Think before buying it… say to yourself, “Will I actually wear this?” If the answer is yes, put it in your basket and continue shopping. Then before you go to checkout, ask again, “Will I wear this?” If the answer is still yes, then ask, “What Will the husband say?” Haha 😆
Ramen… I was craving ramen and we did not have any of the prepackaged kind…I love that kind!!……..
Sorry. Just got distracted thinking of ramen, and the many ways to eat it!! So I decided to attempt to make some from scratch. I already am expecting this to be a fail, but I’m trying it anyways!!
Looks yummy!
Well I am just going to admit early. It will probably taste strange since I don’t have several of the ingredients. I will say, this recipe does not call for the many authentic ingredients…but I want ramen so I’m still going to make some!!
First fail…
It called for green onions. I don’t have any. I was going to use a yellow onion…but I don’t have that either…so red onion it is…
At this point it is smelling similar to the instant ramen…maybe it will work!!?
Cook the noodles!
Again a fail…it called for ramen noodles…I had egg noddles. I thought that would be better than spaghetti noodles…
Can you feel my uncertainty and lack of confidence as you read…haha! I know I can!
Well…I improvised again…
The recipe didn’t call for celery, but me, with my “extensive knowledge”, decide to try it. Probably since I thought this was going to be a flop I decided to go with the flow…
Add the beef broth…
It smells delicious! I’m sure it would have been better with the right ingredients, but I must say it smells alright!
Round steak.
It said to garnish with some steak and green onions. I at least have the steak! I’m not a complete failure. I only was going to use a few pieces for my dinner. I’ll cook the rest up when I make leftover servings.
The broth…
Still smells good. I’m not going to try it until it’s complete.
Sizzling steak!
At least I know one part of the meal is going to be edible.
Noodles.Add the noodle…Looks pretty good!
It would look prettier with the green onion garnish…but alas the time has come to see if it is a fail or not…
…
Wow! 🥵 Spicy! I only added 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes…maybe when you cook red pepper flakes they increase in spiciness…well that’s a bummer.
The overall taste is not too bad, but the spiciness really hits you. The steak is a nice addition.
Look like photo: 2. Let’s be honest it looks nothing like the photo. I gave it a two: since there is broth, meat, and noodles…
Taste: …? 3…wow that’s a sad, sad score. Reading these scores you are going to be turned away. But I gave it a three because I could taste the instant ramen flavor under the the spiciness… 🥵 the spicy…wow. But I think it would have been better if I had the right ingredients.
Easiness: 9. It was pretty easy. It consisted of putting everything in a pot and cooking it. I just wish I had done a better job.
Thankfully the hubby was on a night shift. Meaning my complete failure was not for both of us… and Eli had Mac n cheese.
Well…I might try this again in the future…but I think I will just bite the bullet and buy the instant ramen when I want some! Ramen………❤️
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