A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from our lives. A simple, special, memorable moment.
A moment I want to pause, savor and keep close to my heart.
Happy weekend everyone.
Dali’s Twins and a Spare
This time around we have twin kitties. The one on the left has an adorable dot on it’s chin and different black pattern on it’s back. So, as much as they look alike–we can easily tell them apart.
Here’s the fun bit. We don’t just have one set of twins…
WE HAVE TWO!! Go back and look at that again. So sweet, right?!
Another fun fact is that they kinda stick together–stripe and stripe and black and white with black and white. It’s bizarre.
Then, we have this little rebel that plays with everybody. Nearly black all over but for a white throat and four white tipped paws.
They had their first field trip out of the box a couple of days ago and are loving the extra space to play and wrestle with each other. Now if I can just keep them out from under my office chair. Yikes.
These little critters will be 5 weeks old on Sunday and I expect they will only get cuter…
which is the hardest part for me.
A Sheepy Stack
Now, I don’t typically take people on a tour of my bathroom…usually.
But, these little Wallace & Grommet-esk bath tissue sheep are screaming to be shown off. When I stumbled across them on Amazon my trigger finger began to tremble…and well…
you know the rest. It couldn’t be helped.
In my defense– have you ever seen anything so adorable in all your life?!
The answer is certainly, no…you have not.
In fact, I think I should be congratulated, celebrated even–for not buying 5 sets. See–I can control myself…
if I have to.
Using restraint. Check.
“Clap for Aunt Grace. She did a hard thing today.”
Bourbon Street Chicken
Guys, guyyyys! If you’ve ever ordered the Bourbon Street Chicken from Chuck-a-Rama– and find yourself going back for more…over and over…
you’re gonna LOVE this recipe!
I’ve tried and tweaked it to perfection so that you don’t have to. And the best perk is that it’s even better than the restaurant kind because you know exactly what is in it!!
The first time I made this recipe–it was great, however there was absolutely NOT enough sauce and sauce is really important to some of us. So that was the first tweak. More sauce.
Next, I adjusted the ginger for the right amount of warmth, without causing a 3 alarm fire. Second tweak.
Lastly, some of the recipes called for actual whiskey, which ain’t happening at this place–so we’re using apple or cranberry juice. It’s perfect.
So, brace yourself. After you make this scrumptious chicken, you may just feel an overwhelming urge to send me a million dollars.
You just go right ahead.
Heh, heh.
Bourbon Street Chicken
Ingredients
2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed
2-3 Tbsps olive oil
1-1/2 tsps ground ginger
1-1/2 tsps garlic powder
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 C soy sauce
1 C apple or cranberry sauce
1-1/2 cups water
3T rice or apple cider vinegar
1 C brown sugar
3 T corn starch
1/2 c water
In a bowl stir together the ginger, pepper, soy sauce, apple juice, water, garlic, vinegar and brown sugar. Set sauce aside to allow sugar to disolve and spices to mix. In a separate small bowl stir cornstarch and water together until smooth.
Cut the chicken into bite size pieces and trim any excess fat, tendons and gristle. Heat olive oil in large skillet on medium high heat. Add chicken and cook until it begins to brown–about 8-10 minutes. Stir occasionally so that each piece browns evenly.
Slowly add sauce to chicken and stir well. When mixture comes to a boil, lower heat and allow sauce to simmer about 15 minutes.
With a spatula or whisk, push some of the chicken to side of the pan in order to make a little pool of sauce. Whisk cornstarch mixture briskly into the sauce. It will thicken quickly. Stir into chicken mixture evenly.
Serve over rice.
Bourbon Street Chicken
: Launi
Ingredients
- 2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed
- 2-3 Tbsps olive oil
- Sauce
- 1-1/2 tsps ground ginger
- 1-1/2 tsps garlic powder
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 C soy sauce
- 1 C apple or cranberry sauce
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 3T rice or apple cider vinegar
- 1 C brown sugar
- 3 T corn starch
- ½ c water
Instructions
- In a bowl stir together the ginger, pepper, soy sauce, apple juice, water, garlic, vinegar and brown sugar.
- Set sauce aside to allow sugar to disolve and spices to mix.
- In a separate small bowl stir cornstarch and water together until smooth.
- Set aside.
- Cut the chicken into bite size pieces and trim any excess fat, tendons and gristle.
- Heat olive oil in large skillet on medium high heat.
- Add chicken and cook until it begins to brown--about 8-10 minutes.
- Stir occasionally so that each piece browns evenly.
- Slowly add sauce to chicken and stir well.
- When mixture comes to a boil, lower heat and allow sauce to simmer about 15 minutes.
- With a spatula or whisk, push some of the chicken to side of the pan in order to make a little pool of sauce.
- Whisk cornstarch mixture briskly into the sauce. It will thicken quickly.
- Stir into chicken mixture evenly.
- Serve over rice.
Things I’m Loving Right Now
This amazing, lovely, ridiculous Mother’s day gift that was bestowed on me by one of my kids. Ten points to Gryfindor if you can guess which one. Haha.
A sweet, shy, tender little kitty that runs ahead of me to make sure the porch is completely safe before we venture out.
An open-faced egg salad sandwich…or two in the afternoon. Yum.
A rousing game of 5 Crowns with the family. It’s one of the few games they play that I actually…you know…get without too much hand holding.
A pretty little sign that gets to the point quite nicely. I mean…if you’re going to tell someone to scram, how cool is it if you can be polite about it?
A big sister and her baby brother.
Just the right card from one of my other kids. “Believe me.” Haha.
Family vollyball. Watching it…not playing it..as the sun goes down.
A whole website full of beautiful family friendly music that I can just leave on loop all day long.