Tuesday, March 16, 2010

After a long delay, I'm back with an easy, fun chicken dinner!


Hello Everyone!!!! I hope all is well with everyone and I hope everyone is having a good start to their week.  Today is my friend Patys birthday so a shout out to her, Happy Birthday!!!  An update on my sweets is 4/14 and then after that it was ruined lol.   I was trying to do good and then I was invited out for a birthday dinner and pie at the end, so yeah I had to have the pie lol.  I am going to start this over soon. I am addicted to Cadbury eggs and every time I go to the store I get one.  I need to get control. So after this weekend I will try my challenge.
As for the 7 hours of sleep, well I have to start that over too.  I missed it by an hour and then getting up early for work messed me up too. I am still looking for a job and I kind of worked out my unemployment issues, but still need to do some stuff with it.  Time is running out for a job and I am not sure what to do.  I am trying to keep my head up, but its hard sometimes.
I haven’t been cooking much due to the fact that I have been closing a lot on my part time job.  I miss cooking. I’m actually excited because I’ve taken recipes and am going to do my take on them. But for tonight  I am leaving everyone with a take on a Rachael Ray dish.  I had left over spinach and walnut pesto in my freezer and while watching a 30 minute meals I saw Rach coat chicken in pesto and then grill it.  Well I pretty much did the same thing but baked it.  It browned in the oven a bit and was really delish!  For a side, just some simple broccoli and lemon and thyme white beans. I saw this in my Cook This, Not That book.  They used rosemary, but I wanted thyme.  Just drain and rinse the beans, throw in a pot with a juice of a lemon and some thyme (and thyme has a lemony taste which is why I used that) and heat through.  Simple and easy as pie! Have a great weekend and enjoy!

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Lemon Cake and goals for self

Hello everyone.  I hope all is well with everybody.  Its been a little crazy for me. I am still looking for a job and unemployment is acting crazy. I am going to have to research it, which is a whole days work.
I also decided this week that I am going to try and stay away from sweets for 14 days.  I know this is funny because I am making this post about a sweet.  The only reason why is I eat way to many sweets.  I believe in everything in moderation and once in awhile you should treat yourself.  This is going to be hard for me because I LOVE sweets, wish me luck lol. I am 2/14.  Oh yeah I am also trying to get 14 days of 7 hours of sleep.  This is the hardest, but I want to make sure I get more rest than I do. I am 2/14 on that. Wish me luck on that too.

So anyways how about a quick and easy cake??

Its so easy its from a box! I'm still learning how to bake without a box, but when I do it comes out a little dry and heavy.  Box cake mixes are not bad, its all about what you do to it to made it different. If you buy the Duncan Hines Lemon cake mix, look on the side for a lemon pound cake.  I followed those directions for this and then added some lemon zest.  After the cake came out I let it cool and added a glaze of powered sugar mixed with lemon jucie.  You let the cake cool about 10 minutes, then poor half the glaze on (make sure you poke holes in it) then when you are ready to serve add the rest of the lemon glaze.  I saw this on on my my favorite blogs www.dozenflours.com It was amazing and everyone loved it.  It was super moist and had tons of lemon flavor. I hope you try this and enjoy it.