Updates

Hey bloggers!

I am in the process of some changes around here, so I probably will not be posting for a couple of days but I promise I am still around - just working behind the scenes! 

In the meantime I am trying to come up with my birthday wish list and so far all I have are crest white strips  and kate spade everything - any other ideas out there?! 

Have a great Thursday everyone

xoxo

taking chances

When I decided to become a world renowned chef learn how to cook I had no idea you could boil chicken.  To me you can bake, fry and grill chicken, I had never in my life heard of boiling chicken. Well there were like a million recipes out there that started with boiling the chicken and this scared me to death. I am already crazy hesitant about cooking chicken because I can never tell when it is done and am always scared I will undercook it and poison myself and friends - I think this is why I was so good at being a vegetarian! So last night I decided to step waaay out of my comfort zone and boil up some chicken!

It all started when I saw this recipe of Chicken Noodle Soup Casserole on my favorite Pioneer Woman and realized if I wanted more casserole options in my life I had to step out of my chicken boiling comfort zone. I researched what temperature and how long it should boil for and got about a million different answers, everywhere from 12 minutes to 22 minutes. So I stuck the chicken in the water with some olive oil, crossed my fingers and set my timer for 11 minutes to check on it. 

All I can say was that was the easiest chicken I have ever made!! Since our chicken was a bit thinner than normal chicken breasts it only took the 11 minutes and then it was perfect for shredding. Who knew chicken could be this easy?! 

I cooked the chicken earlier in the night since I was not sure how that situation was going to go. Once we were ready for dinner I started the water for the pasta and got to chopping up the celery, carrots and onion while mister pressed the garlic. Then we put it on a pan with some butter to start cooking all the veggies. 

Once that was done we just dumped in the cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup followed by half a cup of sour cream and the boiled chicken ( no we did not almost forget to add the chicken, I don't know where you heard that)! 

We did not have room to mix everything in the pan so we actually put everything in a big bowl with the pasta. Once that was all mixed up we put it in a pyrex pan and stuck it in the oven for 20 minutes. 

Lastly heaven was created. Dumping an entire roll of crushed ritz crackers on top of this wonderful mix and cooking for another 5 minutes. This casserole was HEAVEN. Overall it was easy, there were quite a few steps but nothing was difficult once I stepped out of my comfort zone. 

 All I can say is I know exactly what I will be having for lunch today and probably dinner tonight!! 

On another note, I am dreaming of this dress and this dress. 

xoxo

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend has come and gone - where on earth is this year going?! Friday night mister and I went out with some friends who are my absolute favorites. Over Christmas we took pictures with Santa so we decided we had to take pictures with the Easter bunny!! So we enjoyed some drinks at happy hour and headed on over to the mall to get in line with all the babies and toddlers - please forgive my picture of a picture

After our adorable picture we wondered the mall for a few minutes where I discovered that forever 21 now has maternity clothes. I am just not sure how I feel about this. Opinions? 

Paco enjoyed his Easter. He has been hiding/sleeping in the strangest places. Yesterday we discovered him cuddling in the back of the closet with my cowboy boots. I think he misses Texas so he was drawn to the boots! I gave him some plastic easter eggs which have always been his favorite toys to play with, however all he wanted to do was sleep!

Saturday night we went to see Water for Elephants. I read the book a couple weeks ago and was really excited to see my favorite actress in this part. The movie was really good, it definitely had some major differences from the book, but seeing the changes and things left out/switched around I can understand why. Normally I get pretty upset when a movie is drastically different from a book I love, but this time I actually understood the changes and still really enjoyed it. I also loved having an awesome date night with frozen yogurt included!

Mister brought me home an awesome Easter surprise. We named him Walter. I love him. 

Thanks to the wonderful world of netflix I am completely addicted to the show Fringe. I think this show has taken over me more than any other show ever. We watched season one and two on netflix but since the third season is still currently on we had to find the first half of season 3 online which was such a pain but we did make it happen - so I may have gone a little overboard and we may have watched like 10 episodes in the last three days - Whoops!! What can I say, you put Joshua Jackson in something and I am HOOKED, I fell in love with him in Mighty Ducks. Love like that just doesn't disappear. 

who could resist that?

 Also due to my not working I have been sucked into some pretty awful day time tv, today I have been watching Bethany Ever After while I clean and do some crafts and it does not seem to be as awful as I expected. I was hesitant due to Real Housewives but I did always like her so I am giving it a shot!

Hope everyone has a great week!

xoxo