i'm just me

pretty yummy

i love chicken pot pie.  i came up with this recipe by combining a few components from others to come up with an easy, yummy version:

• 2T butter
• 1/4 onion (adj for personal taste)
• 4T flour
• 2 cans chicken stock
• 3c potatoes (any variety)
• 2c cooked chicken
• 1 bag frozen veggies
• rubbed sage & crushed rosemary and salt & pepper to taste
• 1 1/2 cups bisquick
• 1c milk
• 2T butter

saute onion in the butter until translucent

 

 

add flour

 

add chicken stock slowly - working out any lumps in the flour

 

 

add diced (uncooked) potatoes and cook until potatoes are soft

 

 

add chicken, sage, rosemary, salt and pepper and defrosted veggies

 

pour into casserole dish

 

combine bisquick and milk and pour over casserole

 

melt butter and pour on top of bisquick

 

cook in oven for 30 minutes at 350 degrees

enjoy!

 

 

*note:  i cook a bunch of chicken ahead of time and separate it into freezer bags so i can prepare quick and easy home cooked meals like this one.  this recipe takes about an hour to prepare - including cooking time.

room update & a purple baby

working on some stuff for abby's room, but no photos just yet.

need some silver wood frames for 3 prints i got at ikea.  hobby lobby has good frames, but they are closed on sunday so i couldn't get it done today - bummer since i was in a crafty mood.

i need to find some cute curtains for an idea i have to frame her open closet from the inside.  it looks good in my head, so we'll see how it turns out!  i'll need to look online since i haven't been able to find the kind i want at stores.

i also need to find a wide and low bookcase for the inset area in her room.  have not had good luck with this.  the space is 50" wide and i want the bookcase to pretty much fill it up.  i was hoping to not have to have one made special - but we'll see.

i am anxious to get these things done soon so her room will be more complete.  and i hope to get some photos of wider room shots, but without a wide angle lens we'll have to see.

with the weather finally cooling down, we've been going to the goodyear park most evenings.  abby loves to be outside.  here are some photos from tonight's trip:

trees & owls

how cute is this sheet?  yeah, there is a sheet... look closer, it is right under that baby that you can't take your eyes off of.

 

so it seems abbys room has kind of ended up with a theme  without me trying.  not sure what i'd call it but there re trees, flowers, owls, birds, butterflies... so it's pretty outdoorsey - or naturey - ooooh, i like that!  i feel like i still have so much more work to do and now that the weather is finally cooling down i need to get to it.  yeah right, the temp is supposed to be in the high 90s tomorrow!  why do i live here again???

normal days

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.  Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.  Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.  Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.  One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.    -Mary Jean Iron

for me, there is nothing better than consistency and peacefulness.  around here, we have a lot of both.  weekends consist of sleeping in a bit since b gets up with the babe.  playtime as a family.  chores perhaps.  maybe a little computer or craft time while abby sleeps on her daddy.  lunch for abby, then an outing with lunch for us, maybe errands.  home again for naps - both abby and me (yes, i am so lucky to have b).  more family play time.  dinner for abby.  dinner for us.  a walk in the park.  starbucks (iced caramel macchiato - mmmmmm, we are addicted).

the simple life is the happiest life.