I'm in the mood for food!

Oh, This was a way cute cookbook. I'm in the mood for food in the kitchen with Garfield. By Jim Davis and recipes by Barbara Albright

I found this at Smith's and thumbed through it and had to have it. I love the titles and cartoons throughout it. So, It was a must have. My boys loved reading garfield's comments.
I cut up post-its and make bookmarks to mark what I want to try and so far I've made Quick N Easy Chicken Parmesan, the first recipe in the book,Chewy Brownies and Escape from the daily grind Maple-Cinnamon Coffee which we call Garfields Coffee. Yum!

Theatre Chairs

Today our order of 12 theatre chairs came. I'm excited to get this room going.
We are building steps to set 4 chairs on each row. Now we just need to wait for spring before we can get this room assembled. Brady is anxious to start framing this room he has had lots of experience at Bridgerland building a house in a class. And loves it. Picture is of exact chairs I bought.

Even little Girls are creative

My little Princess found this box of stuff to create things with and she made this little princess all by herself and she wanted to have her picture taken. Isn't she cute.

Happy New Year! Cranberry Stuffing in Chicken breast

Cranberry Stuffing in Chicken breast

One box stovetop holiday cranberry mix
Dice up one celery and add more dried cranberrys
add water as directed and butter. Microwave 5 minutes

Meanwhile, slice a slit in chicken breast like a pocket
and stuff with dressing when done and fry in pan with oil
Don't crowd pan it will not brown. Put in a baking dish
and bake 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees. Yum!

Manhattan Brined Turkey

I have gone to a Thanksgiving cooking class and this what what we did to the turkey.
I had to wait for next week to cook the Turkey and wait to see what I thought. Well, the second week I was amazed at how this tasted so here's my attempt this year.



Manhattan Brined Turkey

1 turkey 15-20 lbs thawed
1 bottle white wine
1 bottle white zinfandel
1 can white grape juice frozen concentrate
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup fresh basil (use living herbs at the grocery store)
2 lemons, juiced and added cut in half
2 limes, juiced and added cut in half
2 big sprigs rosemary
1/4 cup thyme
1/2 cup kosher salt
1 tbsp. vinegar

Combine salt and frozen juice concentrate in a large measuring cup add 1 can water to dissovle both. Add fresh herbs and garlic to mixture. Place turkey in a large white bucket lined with a brining bag. (sold at speciality food stores)Pour mixture over turkey. Arrange fresh herbs on top. Pour to bottles of wine over turkey. Juice fresh oranges , lemons, limes and pour over turkey. Add the cut up pieces to bucket on top of the turkey. Add enough water to completely emerge the turkey. Zip up bag and seal white bucket. Set in garage for 24 hours. Don't set more that or the alcohol starts to deteriorate the meat. You can marinate 48 hours and add wine 24 hours prior to cooking.

I really wished I took a picture of the 15 lb. turkey in the bucket with the fresh herbs ontop. Looked really pretty. But the finished product will be amazing.

Shrimp & Spinach Fettuccine/Baguettes

Shrimp & Spinach Fettuccine

1 pkg. wheat fettuccine cooked according to package and drained
In steamer cut up 2 zuchinni in half circles. 1 pkg. of spinach and 1 leek diced
1 small container tomatoes; set aside
I cube of butter 3 garlic cloves minced 2 tsp parsley
1 lb. shrimp deveined and peeled
cook in large pan. When done take out and set aside.
Now put fettuccine noodles in pan and saute, add steamed vegetables, shrimp and sprinle with shredded parmesan cheese add tomatoes last. Add salt & pepper to taste.





Baguettes

Buy one loaf and cut into circles arrange on a baking pan and spread butter on top, garlic bread seasoning, a dot of cream cheese, and sprinkle parmesan on top and bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Enjoy!

Lost Recipes!

Hey- You know when you move and pack everything it takes a few months to figure out where things go or alot longer. In my case alot longer since we are remodeling and slowly unpacking. LOL!

I finally got an oven and wanted to make my favorite banana bread and my recipe box didn't contain that recipe so I made a chocolate chip one instead. Wasn't really thinking where that recipe went, until I told a friend about my Sour Cream Fan Rolls. Ok- I looked in my box and no recipe for this either. OK- This was puzzling me. I always put recipes back into my box when I'm making them.

I then remembered I bought a new file box in Spring and was putting what I really like in it. At this point I'm going crazy trying to figure out where my favorite recipe box may be. I remember telling someone that if my house was to burn down I would need this box. I think I would burn down with the house. LOL! I brain stormed, "Where could I have put it." And yes I went right to the Box that had all the important stuff in it and low and behold my cherished recipe box. I'm so happy that I found it. Some recipes are not replacable.