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Kinda fell off the wagon there…

  • Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:00 am

Things have a way of getting infrakkinsane around here, and blogging is one of the first things to get tossed under the bus. And scheduling posts does me no good if I don’t sit down and write them to begin with.

What’s been going on?

Thanksgiving. Everyone knows about that, right? Yeaaaah, I thought so. I’ve had to clean out the fridge in stages.

The boys. Joe had his tonsils & adenoids out. He’s healed well, but wanted to argue every.single.damn.time it was time to take more grape-flavored nastiness. I don’t like to argue. We know this. Especially over something like pain medication.

“It won’t do you any good if it’s in the cup.”
“Drink it.”
“Drink it or I’ll pour it down your throat.”

Hint to Big Pharma: there is a HUGE untapped market for medicine syringes for older special needs children. Our acetaminophen doses are +2 tsp. Holding your child down while pouring from a cup is zero fun – the meds splash everywhere. Just sayin’.

Dan had a visit with a GI doctor that has proven incredibly….productive. Helpful!!!! and Productive!!!!! We’ll be going back, but the changes in him already are amazing. One day last week he came home from school and ate two grilled cheese sandwiches. I resigned myself to serving a heavier than usual bedtime snack but? he totally cleaned his plate at dinner. And and? He’s eating VEGETABLES y’all. He added mashed potatoes (instant, but I’ll take it) and peas (frozen, canned is too mushy). And decided that maybe canned peaches aren’t all that bad after all.

And now, I get to recover from being home for two weeks. Unpaid. HOORAY! >.<

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I’m a freezer-cleaning failure

  • Posted on August 3, 2010 at 11:56 am
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series I'm the man of the house.

We have three freezers. Two refrigerator/freezers and one upright deep-freeze. As you can imagine, every once in a while something gets shoved to the back and forgotten about.

Plus, the deep-freezer is not a frost-free model. This means that at LEAST once a year it needs to be emptied and shoved out on the porch to melt down – otherwise we end up with layers of crusty frozen ice and no shelf space. And let’s face it – if I get a bigger deep freezer, I COULD get rid of the second fridge. Maybe.

The kitchen freezer is full of Mom’s stuff. It is mostly un-marked, un-dated and generally questionable. The secondary freezer is full of kid-food. None of it is destined for the trash can. The back freezer is combination of both.

The answer, then, is to toss all of Mom’s un-marked and un-dated stuff and move my stuff into the kitchen freezer, right?

WRONG, FOOL!

It’s a sin to waste food. She’ll know I threw her stuff out. Trash day was yesterday and I don’t relish the scent of food decaying in the heat for a week. Even if the cans ARE at the street.

Someone come hold my hand. Please??!!??

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Sesame chicken and noodle deliciousness

  • Posted on June 17, 2010 at 9:00 pm

I have no pics of this dish because well….I AM A WINNAH!!!!! You’ll just have to trust me on this one. And please, do us all a favor and read the whole thing. I had no intention of blogging this until I said “I cooked!!!” and this general badass said she wanted the recipe.

Recipeish.

Whatever you wanna call it. I proclaim it’s deliciousness, and you don’t NEED no stinkin’ pictures of FOOD good LORD people what’s WRONG with you??!!??

It all started with Aiming Low. We all know I like to have some achievable goals, y’all.

1 lb noodles, cooked – I used angel hair because my kids like skinny noodles. Pick whatever floats your boat as long as it’s a pound o noodles. Fettuccine, linguine, you could even use ramen (though my tummeh churns at the thought).

Dress those lovely noodles with

1/2 C soy sauce (I used Bragg’s Liquid Aminos though.)
1/3 to 1/2 C sesame oil
1/3 C sugar
1/4 C sesame seeds – toast ‘em iffin it thrills your soul. I didn’t this time because I used dark sesame oil.

Shake, whisk, and otherwise make a dressing out of those four ingredents. Last night when I made them I was SURE that 1/2 C sesame oil was waaaay too much for angel hair pasta; the noodles were guhREASY. Today when I whipped ‘em out to add in the REST of the goodness, they weren’t quite so bad but I didn’t add any other sesame oil either.

Set the noodles aside to soak up all that tasty tastiness. This time I let it sit overnight – but I had a small bowl before sticking them in the fridge.

It had to be done. I hope you appreciate the sacrifice my thighs made for you.

OH!!!! Two green onions *minimum*. Slice those delicate lovelies from the bottom up to the tough green stems.

Do not do what my child did: I told him the green leaves were tough and oniony. He immediately chomped, and then spent the next 20 minutes spitting green bits into the trash can and shouting BLECH BLECH EEW EEW EEW MOMMIE YOU TWICKED ME!!!!

Because telling a six yr old “don’t eat that” is an invitation to stuff your mouth, apparently.

I diced up two frozen chicken thighs (boneless & skinless) and cooked ‘em through in my trusty cast-iron skillet, then tossed in steamed broccollllli and cauliflower. And I really REALLY wish I’d added shredded carrots and red peppers.

Yes, there are a gracious plenty of leftover noodles.

I planned it that way.

Now I don’t hafta heat up the kitchen for delicious nomz.

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Rainbow Jello

  • Posted on September 23, 2006 at 4:22 pm

I had posted this a long time ago on a message board that I no longer participate in. It is INCREDIBLY image-heavy, so I’ve put everything behind the cut. A few warnings – first of all, this “recipe” is INCREDIBLY time consuming. There are 30 minutes of “gelling” time between each of 12 layers. The recipe isn’t complicated at all – but if the jello isn’t ABSOLUTELY firm, the colors will get muddy. . I went back and edited the post for clarity And so, without further ado:

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