This Chicken!!!

We tried another new Pinterest recipe.  It was delish!  So good that I can't wait to make it again!

Here is the recipe  

Spicy Honey Glazed Chicken

Photo Courtesy of www.nutmegnanny.com

 

I don't usually buy chicken thighs.  It's not that I don't like them, I just usually only have a big bag of frozen chicken breasts and that's what I use for recipes with chicken.  I decided to give this a try because the chicken thighs were on sale at the store and I was intrigued by using the broiler to cook them.  Next time I make it I will probably try it without cracked red pepper and see what the spice is like then.  It was a little spicy for the girls.  I HATE making two meals so I try to adapt it so we all can eat it.  I just told them to give it a good dip in ranch to cut the spice.  Adda loved it!  Ella was sick so she faked like she loved one bite.  I didn't even let the twins try it because the thought of letting them dip in ranch made me shake my head NO!!!  Of course, Gonzo didn't think it was spicy at all!  It was!  He just has burned off his taste buds eating raw seranno peppers.  There was a little of the honey mixture left and we drizzled that over the chicken on our plate.  It seriously was so so so good!  I hope you will try it.  

 

I snapped a picture just as I pulled it out of the oven.  After I basted the chicken with the honey mixture I put it back under the broiler for 2 minutes then basted the other side and did another two minutes.  In the recipe she said that she put hers lower from the broiler but I tried it on the middle rack and it wasn't close enough.  I did mine on the rack closest to the broiler and watched it.

Pinterest Recipe Test

If you're anything like me you have 68 boards on Pinterest and 1,084 recipes posted under "Food", or "Yum Yum", or "Need To Try", or "Get In My Belly".  I waste time scrolling through so many different delightful looking recipes and very rarely make what I have pinned.  When I see someone has tried a Pinterest recipe and given their opinion I'm always excited to see the verdict.  I've decided that if and when I try a recipe that's pinned in and amongst my other 1,084 recipes to try I will blog about the verdict from our table!  I'm always up for a new meal that your family loves too! 

On Thursday I tried this recipe.

Spicy Sausage Pasta

 Photo courtesy of www.kevinandamanda.com

The Sausage and pasta were on sale at the store and I had everything else.  I didn't use Rotel because I didn't have a can in my pantry.  I just used a can of diced tomatoes.  I didn't look hard enough at the store for the pasta she used in the picture and instead used mini pene becasue it was $1 at Kroger.  I also used a little more chicken stock than it called for because I added a little more pasta than it called for.  It was very good, very easy, very quick, and cheap!  All good things in my opinion!  We finished off the leftovers tonight for dinner and everyone still approved!  Well except for Ella, she's in a picky phase right now.  She gave it a good effort though because she had her eye on a cup of hot coco after dinner!

 Try it for yourself!  Tell me what you think and if you changed or added anything! 
 

I'm BACK...ish, semi, kinda, sorta, maybe

It's been a looooooooooong time since I've written on the blog.  Actually the twins were about 9 months old the last time I blogged.  Soooooo, about 9 months ago!  Woops!!!!  To be completely honest I stopped when they started moving.  When the twins became mobile the SHIT hit the fan!!!  Excuse my language but that word just has to be used to fully describe my feelings.  If I ever thought it was hard before, boy was I wrong.  They started crawling and I felt like a chicken with my head cut off from sun up to sun down.  Crap, I still feel like that but the chicken head that is cut off is spinning out of control and shouting cuss words every so often!!!  I stopped blogging because I wanted to be honest about life, but didn't know how to write it without sounding like I hated my life and was the worst mother EVER!  Listen, I am well aware nobody is sitting back watching my every move and making sure I'm up to par on my mom swing, but I do feel like there is a stupid standard that our society puts out there.  Facebook and Blogs are some of the biggest culprits for beating down the already beaten down mom.  I'm sure at some point I've made my life look like "The Sound of Music", but it's not!  It's hard.  It's a beating.  It's frustrating.  It's hard.  It's a beating.  It's frustrating!!!  So is Suzy Q's, right next door.  Unfortunately I have to remind myself more often than I want to admit that even though it's all of the above, it's so so so good!  It's just what God wanted for me.  It's rewarding!  It's sweet!  It's worth it!  It sanctifies me daily, well probably hourly!  I mean if I'm trying to be a book wide open here I'm gonna go ahead and say it's more like minute by minute that The Good Lord is working on me!  I'll be the first to admit that my oldest daughter did not learn the word shit from "public school" she learned it from ME!  I'll also be the first to admit that I ask Adda to pray for me often!  So often that she has told me, "Mom, I've been praying for your yelling and it's not helping."  Sorry Adda I'm working on it!  I'm working on it today.  I'll be working on it tomorrow, and probably again the next day!  Some days will be good.  Some days will suck!  All I can do is keep my head up and keep pushing my girls to Jesus!  Even if I'm asking for prayer for my yelling!!!  Eeeeek! 

So, a very long and probably overly detailed paragraph later I'm telling you that I'm back and will attempt to let you guys back in only if you promise to...pray for my yelling!!!!!  I will attempt to keep it real and not make you think we've got our junk together over here, because I don't think it's possible to get our junk together. 

Happy New Year from our "CREW" to yours! 

Let me explain the overload of the same picture.  We have taken a picture on New Year's Eve every year since we had Adda.  It's usually a beating and we are scrambling to set up the camera to get the picture in, but one day we will look back at them all and be glad we did it.  When I pulled the pictures up I couldn't help but post them all to show you how many it took to get one, or none!  No, there is ONE that turned out!

 Checking camera position

 Checking camera setting

 Everyone get in your spots, here I come!

 I guess I checked spots 15 times before I actually pushed the timer button!

 1st one is blurry probably from me running around the corner to get in the picture.

 A little better but still blurry, probably from my heavy breathing from running around the corner to get in the picture.

 Trying round 2 of the timer.

 The next to last picture was the best.  I stopped breathing for a sec and everyone started laughing!  SCORE!

Hold that pose for one more...and Adda is gone.  Look at Gonzo still holding the pose but pointing with a very strong finger at the spot Adda needs to be at.  Oh Lord!  We are a mess over here!!!

Happy New Year Y'all!!!