Chicken Fever

I bought a package of chicken breasteses the other day and, since then, we've had chicken most every night. Now, as some of you know, I'm not usually a huge fan of chicken. Particularly fried chicken. There is only so much I can handle before I'm ready for a steak, you know? But this chicken breast stuff is growing on me. I like it. maybe it's because I chop it up into smaller pieces and I'm not having to eat this huge chunk of chicken after every bite of whatever else I'm having. Whatever the case, I'm liking it and so is Kendle. So, it started with fried rice...


Chicken Fried Rice for Two
1Chicken Breast
cooked rice
veggies*
1egg
teriyaki or soy sauce
So, I just cook the rice(1cup uncooked = 3cups cooked) and the chicken. Remove chicken from pan. Put rice in frying pan on med-low heat. Add veggies then egg, then teriyaki sauce. Meanwhile, chop chicken into med-small pieces and then add to rice mixture.
*I actually picked a few carrots, peas, and corn from a can of veg-all and diced the carrots a little. I put the remaining veg-all in a bowl for use the next day in (what I planned to be) a pot pie. Turned our that I made chicken and dumplings instead. So easy and so good.


Deborah's Dumplings
Soup
1can cream of mushroom soup*
1can cream of chicken soup*
1Chicken breast, cooked, chopped
1Can Veg-all
1Can corn
Milk to right thickness**
Dumplings***
1cup Bisquick
1/3 cup milk
pepper(opt.)
parsley(opt.)

* feel free to use both mushroom or both chicken soup...it all tastes good.
**Maybe 1 1/2 cups? I don't measure it. Just remember that the soup will thicken even more after you put dumplings in it.
***I make a double batch of this for extra dumplingness.

Bring soup to a boil, stirring often. Reduce heat and immediately drop dumplings on top of soup with a teaspoon. (you'll want the blobs to be 1-1 1/2 inches in diameter....they grow) Do not just stir them in(esp in first 5 minutes), but make sure you don't scorch the bottom of the pan either. Cook on low for 10-12 minutes. Serve. Mmmmm...
note: these are original recipes. I did not get them out of books or on-line. I also made up the names all on my own. Thank you. ;)

So...This is it...I'm in finals week and I am ready for the break!
*happy dance*

5 More days...

Until the finals officially begin! Aaaak! For some of us, they began Monday of this week with one big, whopping Chemistry test. Really, it shouldn't be all that hard. The only one I'm thinking about at all the American Government test. The rest should be really low-stress. My computer class is simply going to be our final unit exam, just like the rest of all the tests we've taken throughout the semester. My Chemistry test is a comprehensive, take-home test. Crazy, right? Ok...and I found out today that my psychology final is not going to be what we were originally told it would be. It will be 85 questions pulled from all of our tests throughout the semester (she told us this a few weeks back) and we were going to get our previous tests back today to study. We got to class only to discover that she would not be returning our tests to us as a study guide. Instead she has decided to allow us to use our books on the exam!
So have any of you seen "Saving Sarah Cain"? It's a movie based on a book by Beverley Lewis. I got it on my Netflix this week. It was actually a good movie. It's about a girl who's sister was Amish and passed away leaving her as the legal guardian of 5 children. It's very family-appropriate and is also a neat story.
So...that's my day and a few of the things on my mind this week.
Oh, I forgot to mention money...whew-eee...Christmas is not good to be in December. Vewy, vewy bad montf to spend ze money...hehe...

The turkey runned away!

So...this year I didn't cook a turkey. I got in trouble for it, too. ;)
I think Phil (my father-in-law) was pretty upset about it. Hehehe...I actually knew it would get a reation out of someone, but I didn't expect it to be him. I kinda felt bad, but it's not like I just have a million extra bucks floating around to spend on a turkey that I'm not even gonna be around to munch on. Nor did I have a lot of extra time. As it was I got behind on the pies and showed up late to lunch.
Speaking of pies...ugh! Two of them turned out just fine. They were great, though I say so myself. The third? Horrible! I used a generic brand of pumpkin *cough*bestchoice*cough* and it was disgusting! So I learned what I already knew, but (apparently) didn't trust: Libby's pumpkin makes the best pie. Pay the extra dollar per can. It's worth it. End of story.